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Re: Bus nostalgia
« Reply #90 on: 16 March 2010, 15:51:31 »

Nice site full of buses and coaches from all over the UK
http://mainlybus.photos.gb.com/list_collections.php :y :y
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Re: Bus nostalgia
« Reply #91 on: 16 March 2010, 18:42:18 »

Hey Smethsmate
Any news yet on the discount for Miggies from OOF yet? :y
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Re: Bus nostalgia
« Reply #92 on: 17 March 2010, 15:53:59 »

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Hey Smethsmate
Any news yet on the discount for Miggies from OOF yet? :y

PM sent as promised mate  :y

Has also just been posted in 'Meetings etc' section on here  8-)
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Re: Bus nostalgia
« Reply #93 on: 17 March 2010, 16:10:18 »

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Hey Smethsmate
Any news yet on the discount for Miggies from OOF yet? :y

PM sent as promised mate  :y

Has also just been posted in 'Meetings etc' section on here  8-)

No PM as yet  :'(
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« Reply #94 on: 17 March 2010, 16:11:57 »

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Any news yet on the discount for Miggies from OOF yet? :y

PM sent as promised mate  :y

Has also just been posted in 'Meetings etc' section on here  8-)

No PM as yet  :'(
I bet he forgot to put the phucking stamp on it.
He is from MAESTEG after all
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« Reply #95 on: 17 March 2010, 16:23:01 »

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Any news yet on the discount for Miggies from OOF yet? :y

PM sent as promised mate  :y

Has also just been posted in 'Meetings etc' section on here  8-)

No PM as yet  :'(
I bet he forgot to put the phucking stamp on it.
He is from MAESTEG after all

Calls me mate then lets me down, some mate!!! ;) ;) ;) ;) ;D
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Re: Bus nostalgia
« Reply #96 on: 17 March 2010, 22:08:55 »

[size=14]Can any of you " Bus Anoraks " or " BAs " for short, name these types of buses[/size]

Bus One

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Bus Two


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No prize but you can gloat and call yourself a Smart a**se BA  8-) 8-) 8-) :y
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Re: Bus nostalgia
« Reply #97 on: 17 March 2010, 22:46:23 »

Ahhh ...........
If ever there was a classic Western Welsh bus, then this is what we're looking at folks!

Both are Leyland Tiger Cubs with Weymann 'Hermes' 44-seat all-metal bodies, and are two examples from an order that totalled 180 near-identical buses delivered between 1953 and 1957.

Photo 2 shows fleet no 1026 laying-over at Station Square, Neath. This was one of those that entered service in 1953. The 1953/4 bodies had an angular cantrail profile above the side windows, and their registrations were HUH or JBO prefixed.

Photo 1 shows 1177 at Cardiff's Central Bus Station blinded-up for the three-hour trek westwards to distant Ammanford. It's another Tiger Cub/Weymann, and being MUH-prefixed, entered service in 1957. Note the curved cantrail profile. This route was the hourly flagship 301 limited-stop service, which extended to Carmarthen on a two-hourly basis.

If you look closely aft of the driver's window, you'll see the fleet number with a coloured diamond positioned above that. The colour denoted the vehicle's home depot - 1026 would have almost certainly displayed a red one, being allocated to Neath. Judging by the lightness of 1177's diamond, I reckon that it's fair to assume that it was orange, and therefore based at Cardiff (Penarth Road).
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Re: Bus nostalgia
« Reply #98 on: 17 March 2010, 22:55:54 »

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Ahhh ...........
If ever there was a classic Western Welsh bus, then this is what we're looking at folks!

Both are Leyland Tiger Cubs with Weymann 'Hermes' 44-seat all-metal bodies, and are two examples from an order that totalled 180 near-identical buses delivered between 1953 and 1957.

Photo 2 shows fleet no 1026 laying-over at Station Square, Neath. This was one of those that entered service in 1953. The 1953/4 bodies had an angular cantrail profile above the side windows, and their registrations were HUH or JBO prefixed.

Photo 1 shows 1177 at Cardiff's Central Bus Station blinded-up for the three-hour trek westwards to distant Ammanford. It's another Tiger Cub/Weymann, and being MUH-prefixed, entered service in 1957. Note the curved cantrail profile. This route was the hourly flagship 301 limited-stop service, which extended to Carmarthen on a two-hourly basis.

If you look closely aft of the driver's window, you'll see the fleet number with a coloured diamond positioned above that. The colour denoted the vehicle's home depot - 1026 would have almost certainly displayed a red one, being allocated to Neath. Judging by the lightness of 1177's diamond, I reckon that it's fair to assume that it was orange, and therefore based at Cardiff (Penarth Road).
 8-)

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There you go Byron................ BA Honours :y :y :y
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Re: Bus nostalgia
« Reply #99 on: 17 March 2010, 23:04:27 »

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Ahhh ...........
If ever there was a classic Western Welsh bus, then this is what we're looking at folks!

Both are Leyland Tiger Cubs with Weymann 'Hermes' 44-seat all-metal bodies, and are two examples from an order that totalled 180 near-identical buses delivered between 1953 and 1957.

Photo 2 shows fleet no 1026 laying-over at Station Square, Neath. This was one of those that entered service in 1953. The 1953/4 bodies had an angular cantrail profile above the side windows, and their registrations were HUH or JBO prefixed.

Photo 1 shows 1177 at Cardiff's Central Bus Station blinded-up for the three-hour trek westwards to distant Ammanford. It's another Tiger Cub/Weymann, and being MUH-prefixed, entered service in 1957. Note the curved cantrail profile. This route was the hourly flagship 301 limited-stop service, which extended to Carmarthen on a two-hourly basis.

If you look closely aft of the driver's window, you'll see the fleet number with a coloured diamond positioned above that. The colour denoted the vehicle's home depot - 1026 would have almost certainly displayed a red one, being allocated to Neath. Judging by the lightness of 1177's diamond, I reckon that it's fair to assume that it was orange, and therefore based at Cardiff (Penarth Road).
 8-)

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There you go Byron................ BA Honours :y :y :y
But tell me this..................
 Regarding the system of coloured diamonds that are on the buses above the fleet numbers. How many colours and depots were in the Western Welsh empire!

Gotchya, ;) I've done my homework on this  :y
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Re: Bus nostalgia
« Reply #100 on: 17 March 2010, 23:06:07 »

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Ahhh ...........
If ever there was a classic Western Welsh bus, then this is what we're looking at folks!

Both are Leyland Tiger Cubs with Weymann 'Hermes' 44-seat all-metal bodies, and are two examples from an order that totalled 180 near-identical buses delivered between 1953 and 1957.

Photo 2 shows fleet no 1026 laying-over at Station Square, Neath. This was one of those that entered service in 1953. The 1953/4 bodies had an angular cantrail profile above the side windows, and their registrations were HUH or JBO prefixed.

Photo 1 shows 1177 at Cardiff's Central Bus Station blinded-up for the three-hour trek westwards to distant Ammanford. It's another Tiger Cub/Weymann, and being MUH-prefixed, entered service in 1957. Note the curved cantrail profile. This route was the hourly flagship 301 limited-stop service, which extended to Carmarthen on a two-hourly basis.

If you look closely aft of the driver's window, you'll see the fleet number with a coloured diamond positioned above that. The colour denoted the vehicle's home depot - 1026 would have almost certainly displayed a red one, being allocated to Neath. Judging by the lightness of 1177's diamond, I reckon that it's fair to assume that it was orange, and therefore based at Cardiff (Penarth Road).
 8-)

Phew - anyone wanna know more?

 

There you go Byron................ BA Honours :y :y :y
But tell me this..................
 Regarding the system of coloured diamonds that are on the buses above the fleet numbers. How many colours and depots were in the Western Welsh empire!

Gotchya, ;) I've done my homework on this  :y

A fiver say he know's................ :y
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Re: Bus nostalgia
« Reply #101 on: 17 March 2010, 23:13:30 »

A fiver say he know's................

 Your right, didn't think any different really............. :(
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« Reply #102 on: 17 March 2010, 23:24:39 »

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 Your right, didn't think any different really............. :(

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Re: Bus nostalgia
« Reply #103 on: 17 March 2010, 23:50:04 »

i would like to say thanks guys for bringing back all the old memorys of buses and coaches .i past my psv test on a pd2 in 1972 .nottingham city transport .we use to call them backenders .they have crash gearboxes .you had to double the clutch when changeing gear. no power steering in them days .the windsceen use to open forward nice inthe summer .you had to be carefull when you got in because some times you could not find the gearstick ? it was up your trouser leg .i drove buses and coaches fo twenty nine fantastic years .brilliant job .i pack it in because i could not stand people talking behind my back? :D ;D ;D :y
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« Reply #104 on: 17 March 2010, 23:51:24 »

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Very nice too!! :-* :-* :-* :-*

My childhood always comes fooding back when I see those type of buses 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)


mine comes back when i see a 1998 S reg  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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