Surviving Leeds city transport buses

Post by **chameleon** » Sat 29 Mar, 2008 7:41 pm

It used to be an offence to spit on the street with a substantial fine possible. If still on the Statute, would be quite a revenue catcher today!

roundhegian · Post by **roundhegian** » Sat 29 Mar, 2008 8:19 pm

chameleon wrote: It used to be an offence to spit on the street with a substantial fine possible. If still on the Statute, would be quite a revenue catcher today! Or spitting on the football field ?

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Sat 29 Mar, 2008 10:19 pm

To get slightly back on thread although relevant to the off shoot too. Every time I see the title it doesn't remind me of buses that still exist but people who have survived after traveling on them

Post by **chameleon** » Sat 29 Mar, 2008 10:28 pm

tyke bhoy wrote: To get slightly back on thread although relevant to the off shoot too. Every time I see the title it doesn't remind me of buses that still exist but people who have survived after traveling on them Or, in the case of these great big purple caterpllars, surviving being on the road at the same time as them.

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Sat 29 Mar, 2008 11:50 pm

Back in the early sixties, my mates and I used to travel away to watch Leeds Rugby League in their away matches...the coach used to leave from the Corn Exchange and the booking office was down some steps at the front of the Exchange...I can't remember the name of the company that ran the coaches..anybody remember the name????

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Sun 30 Mar, 2008 12:08 am

Wallace Arnold [Wally's Trollies] had an office there didn't they?

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Sun 30 Mar, 2008 1:52 am

Geordie-exile wrote: Wallace Arnold [Wally's Trollies] had an office there didn't they? Thanks Geordie.... its all coming back now.

XJSC · Post by **XJSC** » Fri 11 Jul, 2008 6:10 am

I started work as a guard in 1969, just before my 19th birthday. In those days, a conductor would be issued with a metal box that housed the Ultimate ticket machine, spare tickets, cash bags etc. In those days we had to roll the old pennies and half pennies into a sheet of brown paper and hand in these "tubes" of coins (12 to a roll p I think) when we cashed in every day. It was quite a knack to learn when bouncing around on the back of the open platform buses.The boxes were handed in every night and collected again next morning, and had a serieal number painted on. Most conductors would have a 4 or 5 digit number for their box - mine was number 1. It was obviously recycled from someone else but inevitably I would get some comment or other when I claimed my box each day.I still have my conductor badge somewhere, my number was BB90918 (the badges were green rimmed for a conductor, red rimmed for a driver). I used to work out of Torre Road Garage and could be sent just about anywhere. They were great days except around Christmas time - because standing was allowed then and just about everyone would be clutching a real Christmas Tree, I lost count the number of times I was jabbed in the face by a prickly Christmas tree...In those days, I could tell the range of the buses by the sound of the engine note before it appeared around a corner (smart [edited for content]!!) and when I see pictures of the old fleet, I can still get half the registration number correct just by looking side on to the bus.My favorite bus was 101LNW which was used at the Commercial Vehicle Show at Earls Court in 1963 I think. The two-tone green paint had gold coach lines around it too, plus 4 headlights compared to the 2 for her sisters. I live in Sydney now where there is very little bus "heritage". They bring across the odd Atlantean, paint them red and pretend they have come from London (but they are usually from Plymouth!!)Thanks for the thread and some of the great picturesAll the best

ackers72 · Post by **ackers72** » Sat 12 Jul, 2008 9:45 am

101 is now preserved there are quite a lot around if you look hard from back loaders to even 80's Olympians!!!

XJSC · Post by **XJSC** » Tue 15 Jul, 2008 1:50 am

Where is 101 preserved. I doubt it will do me much good but when I visit UK in the future it would be one of my like-to-see again locations.Is it in the original Earls Court livery with the gold pin stripes or in one of the replacement strips??When I was a kid when the Fleetlines first arrived in Leeds it always used to annoy us that they only ran on the 11 Swinnow/Gipton route. I lived in Hunslet in the '60s and so never got to see them until I went into the city - however, I had to cross the City every day to go to St Thomas Aquinas school in Meanwood and would see one of the XXXLNW most days. The Fleetline/Atlantean style was such a novelty in those days, I even got on one of the "West Riding" (10 Kettlethorpe) buses and earned the wrath of the conductor when he had to let me off in Low Road, Hunslet. I believe they were not allowed to drop any passengers off within the confines of the LCT boundaries....Lot of water under the bridge since then.All the best from Sydney, Australia...