Memorable Snowy Winters in Leeds
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BLAKEY
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Trojan wrote: [Weren't they "utility" either wartime or post war vehicles though? A bit spartan?Through the day there was just one per hour no 5 Dewsbury/Pudsey, but on a morning and evening there'd be two. So the 8-00 from Morley was a Guy Arab, but the 8-30 would be one of the new AEC front entrance buses (still half cab) All the Guy Arabs still around in 1959/60 had indeed been wartime utility bodied machines, but had been progressively rebodied by Roe between 1953 and 1956 and shouldn't have seemed spartan as they were of the highest quality. Are you perhaps remembering them also from their earlier days, hence the impression of spartan, before you went to Pudsey Tech ??
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Trojan
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BLAKEY wrote: Trojan wrote: [Weren't they "utility" either wartime or post war vehicles though? A bit spartan?Through the day there was just one per hour no 5 Dewsbury/Pudsey, but on a morning and evening there'd be two. So the 8-00 from Morley was a Guy Arab, but the 8-30 would be one of the new AEC front entrance buses (still half cab) All the Guy Arabs still around in 1959/60 had indeed been wartime utility bodied machines, but had been progressively rebodied by Roe between 1953 and 1956 and shouldn't have seemed spartan as they were of the highest quality. Are you perhaps remembering them also from their earlier days, hence the impression of spartan, before you went to Pudsey Tech ?? Could be. It's just that even by the standards of the sixties they looked "old fashioned" compared to the AEC's run by LCT and the EHL & FHL Leyland PD2's run by the West Riding.
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