Many know my more recent genre Buses and Girls photography as those earlier buses I really like have all gone so now I enjoy my bus hobby more for the photography. As well as being an artist I owned a small transport business before I retired but today I have a little job too driving a minibus dong a school run to Wolverhampton in the afternoon and occasionally other jobs. It gets me out and about and satisfies my childhood ambition to drive a bus.
Saturday, 18 October 2008
Lloyd of Nuneaton
This coach is a real gem indeed so much so I know little about it. Built in the early Fifties it might have well been a Regal rather than a Reliance and was first registered in the London area. My guess though when comparing details with other contemporary vehicles is that it might have bore bodywork by Mann Egerton but that is a pure guess as they were better known for bodying fine cars like the Bentley and Rolls Royce and few buses remain. This AEC was seen at the Nuneaton Avenue Road premises of Lloyd in the late Sixties whose once well-known interesting fleet of blue and cream buses and coaches numbered in the region of Eighty.
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ReplyDeleteAccording to http://www.buslistsontheweb.co.uk/ it is on AEC Reliance chassis and has a Strachan body, being new to Barrens, London E1 in 1954. "http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1064535058026748836WEwWsh" shows it with Lloyds in colour.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tom, believe it or not there are people who know all about these buses without even refering to the lists. I'll take a look at those too.
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