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Corporation Seddon Pennine RU 79 is now South Yorkshire PTE 1079, at work on 23 June 1975 at St Sepulchre Gate.
I don't know whether Cantors furniture and carpet stores are still going in some form, but I do remember their advertising slogan "Cantors turn you house into a home".
Scanned from a slide taken by the late Charles Dean, now in my collection.
My hand *coloured (if you want to use it please credit me and link to this description) version of an old photograph of Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport (LCPT) tram No. 973, showing a 'Private' destination blind. I did not realise that I had two photos of the same tramways tour on No. 973 which I assume was being run by the **LRTL.
The other photo is at:-
The original BnW photo is here:-
The photo reverse is stamped with the photographer (and/or negative owner) name of R. B. Parr and annotated 22 June 1952.
Liverpool 973 was built as a double deck fully enclosed streamlined tram (aka Bogie Streamliner) in Apr 1937 by LCT at its Edge Lane Works, seating 34/44 and running on EMB Hwt (heavyweight) radial bogies. Liverpool's own designation of the EMB Hwt bogie was called the EMB JB (Johannesburg). It was withdrawn Nov 1956 and stored at Kirkby Trading Estate where it was subsequently broken up and/or burned.
The parts of the Liverpool tramways system that had not already been withdrawn or transferred to bus operation closed on 14th Sep 1957.
* My coloured images are more sketch or watercolour like than colour transparency or print like. They are an impression of that subject and period, rather than an accurate representation of how the image/subject actually looked when the photo was taken.
** The LRTL were the Light Railway Transport League which was formed in 1937 and renamed the Light Rail Transit Association (LRTA) in 1979.
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Farbenspiele der Natur in einem pharmazeutischen Betrieb // Colours of nature in a pharmazeutical plant
Ex Bournemouth Leyland Atlantean SEL 247H is seen here stored in Ireland alongside Ex Ulsterbus Bristol RE 2193. Photo taken in 10/2015
Stagecoach 34625 (KX54 OOY) heads up Corporation Street, Rugby, on route 4 for Admirals Estate. I had not long missed 35185 (KX56 KGY) a recent transfer from Leamington Spa.....
30th January 2018
This was one of the entrances to the pedestrian subway at the crossroads formed by Bull Street and Corporation Street. The signs help us to see we are at the top of Lower Bull Street, straight ahead is Upper Bull Street with the old Lewis's department store on the right. The exit on the right by the guy in the hi-vis coat leads to Old Square and the Victoria Law Courts and to the left is Corporation Street leading to New Street and New Street railway station.
This part of the subway is retained to allow step free access from Corporation Street to Lower Bull Street, the old subway has just been sealed with a concrete wall and the upper wall replaced by a metal railing.
What a slum! This was the main shopping area in Britain's so-called second city, no wonder few people come here. Through the railings we can see the gleaming new buildings and just under the curve in the top right hand corner is Lewis's old department store building.
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Manchester Corporation Transport 1016, a The English Electric Company Limited tram with Manchester Corporation maximum traction bogies, two The British Thomson-Houston Company Limited 509C 50 horsepower motors and The British Thomson-Houston Company Limited B510 controllers with a The English Electric Company Limited H48/32R body stands on the reserved track on Princess Road in Manchester by the Barlow Moor Road junction with a 36 service to Manchester (Albert Square)
Note, 1016 was built in 1927 or 1928
Ref no Tram00052
The bus is Rochdale Corporation 312, JDK 712 was an AEC Regal IV with Burlingham B42D body, new in March 1953.
This negative is awful, it has never been printed because it is so grainy, scanning has softened it slightly so it has now been scanned to complete my old buses album. From what I can see of the route it is working a 1 Castleton to Deeplish service.
I think the picture was taken in 1966, the Vauxhall Viva MkI behind the bus is a 'D' reg and the car looks new.
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SGD285was a Leyland Titan PD2/24 / Alexander H33/28R new as Glasgow Corporation number L283 in November 1959, seen in Oswald Street in Glasgow.
ex Rotherham Corporation CVG6 Daimler double decker KET 220 (fleet number 220). Restored and owned by Mr David Taylor,this bus will now become part of the Beamish fleet primarily for the 1950's section being planned
Stagecoach 36214 (KX60 LHW) is photographed along Corporation Street, Rugby, working route 86 on the 30th of January 2018.
River Head/Alexander Dock, Grimsby with Trawler Ross Tiger, Corporation Bridge and Victoria Mill. Taken with Pentax K5ii & Pentax f1.7 manual lens. Also Black and White scans using 22 year old AGFA Grainy as hell :+) film.
For many years several UK municipal and private bus operators issued 'official' guides and handbooks detailing their services and opportunities for such leisure activities as walking and rambling using the services provided. Sheffield was one such Corporation and their guide ran to many editions from the 1920s until the late 1960s. Sheffield was unusual for a 'municipal' operator in that thanks to its membership of a "Joint Transport Committee' along with the Railways it ran numerous quite long distance services. Thanks to Sheffield's location many of these routes ran off west into the beautiful Peak District and other places in rural Derbyshire that were a magnet for city dwellers.
This edition of the guide is c1958 as a handful of tram routes survive - Sheffield's exemplary first generation tram system came to an end in 1960. The cover shows the city's Town Hall and an apparent AEC Regent V of a type that was being ordered as part of the fleet and tram replacement programme.
Seen here in George Street, Luton when relatively new is Bristol RE / ECW MXD 102E of Luton Corporation. These early vehicles were delivered with a markedly different specification to those for United Counties, including manual gearboxes. They all passed to UCOC in January 1970 but were withdrawn by the late 1970's with all going for scrap.
Scanned from an acquired print
An old photograph of Manchester Corporation Tramways (MCT) car No. 1038 showing '19 - Exchange' (Manchester Exchange to Hyde) destination blinds, *probably taken at 'Hyde Market Place'.
From 1929 MCT were officially called the 'Manchester Corporation Transport Department', although most people (and most books) use the pre 1929 name for the trams/tramways.
Another photo of No. 1038 at the same location but taken by F. N. T. LL. Jones is here:-
The photo reverse is stamped with the photographer (and/or negative owner) name A. D. Packer.
No. 1038 was built by English Electric in 1926 seating 32/48 and running on Brill (MCT type) bogies, being withdrawn from service in Mar 1948 and scrapped. The parts of the Manchester tramways systems that had not already been withdrawn or transferred to trolleybus/bus operation closing in Jan 1949.
* 🚃 Thanks to SelmerOrSelnec for the likely location:-
"I think it's Hyde Market Place. The market is to the right, the town hall would be on the left, out of shot. The Hepworths shop appears to be on the junction with Clarendon Street, which nowadays leads down to the bus station." 🚃
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Blackpool, Leyland Titan PD3A/1 buses 528, 512, 509 and 501, Rigby Road bus yard, Blackpool. Thursday 28 January 1981
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B. Slide No. 5636
This former Pacific Coast Steel Corporation Factory at Pier 70 in San Francisco, California sat abandoned for years. However it was recently restored as part of the redevelopment of Pier 70 and Potrero Point. It faces Illinois Street near 20th Street in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood. The building was built in 1916-17.
Glasgow 22 provides an interesting example of a traditional four-wheeled tramcar, of which there are several at Crich. Many of these (for example Chesterfield 7) were purchased ‘off the peg’ from established tramcar suppliers and received relatively little modification over the years. Others, however, such as Glasgow 22, were built in-house by their operators and were often extensively modified over time, thereby acquiring a distinctive local ‘character’ that set them apart from those operated by other tramway undertakings.
Crich Tramway Village.
No exotic cargoes of ivory, apes, peacocks, sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine, just the research/survey vessel 'Fugro Meridian', berthing at Corporation Quay in the Port of Sunderland.
I recall the the educational school cruise ships 'SS Nevasa' and 'SS Uganda' docking at this same quay many moons ago, giving the opportunity of local pupils to visit distant lands. One such cruise, I think it was the SS Nevasa, took school children to visit Tangiers in North Africa. As for me, I remember getting excited about a school bus trip to visit Hadrian's Wall, just up the road!
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Chesterfield Transport: 77 (VKU 77S) a Leyland National Mk.1, painted in green and cream fleet livery. This vehicle is captured here in it's home town operating a journey on Service 39 to Holme Hall Estate.
© James E. Lowe.
Date: 25th May 1985.
Ref No. Scan03713/JL.
Showbus 2018
Corgi Collectables OM45114 towered over by National Express Trident 4601 & preserved Walsall Corporaion Fleetline 116 - both carrying the same livery as depicted on the model in focus
I’m grateful to David Beilby for a copy of the original monochrome image from the GEC archives on which this digitally-coloured version is based. This was one of two 74-seat streamlined tramcars (fleet numbers 138/9) built by English Electric in 1940 on EMB lightweight bogies. A further 20 followed in the early post-war years but, as English Electric had stopped building tram bodies, they were bodied in the same style by RY Pickering. Claimed at the time to be ‘the last word in trams, the best yet made and ahead of Glasgow’s Coronation trams’, they were not destined to have long lives. The Aberdeen system closed in May 1958 and, after failed attempts to sell these modern trams to Glasgow and Blackpool, they were burned at the Sea Beach terminus. For further archive images, I can commend David’s excellent photo collection at davidbeilby.zenfolio.com (09-Sep-22).
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An old photograph taken at the Queen Victoria Monument of Liverpool Corporation Tramways (LCT) trams No. 772 showing '26 - Outer Circular' destination blinds and No. 774 showing '27 - Outer Circular' destination blinds.
The photograph reverse is stamped as it having been taken by H. B. Priestley on 31 May 1938.
Both were '770 class' fully enclosed bogie cars built by LCT at its Edge Lane Works going into service Sep 1933, they seated 28/42 and ran on EMB heavyweight bogies. Both were scrapped by Maden & McKee Ltd. the month after they were withdrawn, No. 772 being withdrawn in Nov 1952 and No. 774 in Jan 1953. The '770 class' were the first of the 'Green Goddesses', being the first cars produced in the new olive green and cream LCT livery.
The parts of the Liverpool tramways system that had not already been withdrawn or transferred to bus operation closed in September 1957.
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Sunderland Corporation Transport 52, a Sunderland Corporation tram with a The English Electric Company Limited FL32 truck, two Crompton Parkinson Limited 161 62 horsepower motors and The English Electric Company Limited Z4 controllers with a Sunderland Corporation H36/24CD body built 1940 runs along Mary Street in Sunderland approaching the junction with New Durham Road with a Circle service. Monday 16th March 1953
Note, 52 was built by Sunderland Corporation using an underframe and body shell supplied by The English Electric Company Limited and was withdrawn from service in January 1954
Ref no Tram00947
Wigan Corporation 27 [FEK3F] Leyland Titan PD2 with Massey bodywork, Wallgate, Wigan. Note the green lights at the side of the destination box. These were fitted to Wigan buses so that at night, locals would know it was a Corporation bus rather than one of the 'opposition'.
An old photograph (taken outside the paper mill at the bottom of Kingston Hill?), of Birmingham Corporation Tramway and Omnibus Department (Birmingham City Transport from 1937) trolleybus fleet No. 34 (registration OC1134) showing a route '94 - Coventry Road - City Boundary & Albert Street' destination blind.
The photo reverse is stamped with the photographer (and/or negative owner) name of S. N. J. White.
No. 34 was first in service Jan 1934 comprising a triple axle Leyland Motors TTBD2 chassis No. 3181 and a Metropolitan-Cammell series 36 body seating 58 (H33/25R). It was withdrawn from service Jun 1951, the last of the Birmingham trolleybus routes closing in the same month. The following month it was sold to Bird of Stratford where it was broken up.
On the reverse in fountain pen script and appearing to be of the same age as the photo is "94 Albert St - Bullring - Deritend - Coventry Rd - Hay Mills - Yardley - City Boundary (Sheldon)".
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Doncaster Corporation Transport, a 1965 Leyland Royal Tiger Cub Roe, was seen in Doncaster, near the First Doncaster depot, whilst operating a free shuttle to Doncaster, attending the First Doncaster open day.