1938 Leyland Titan TD6C English Electric body

1938 Leyland Titan TD6C in Midland Journey, Short Movie, 1947

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1938 Leyland Titan TD6C English Electric body

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dsl ◊ 2018-03-24 01:36	For the bus behind - gets a page for unusual shape of driver's window. I think plate ends with 273, and destination could be Hockley.
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2018-03-24 08:11	A Manchester style body. Possibly a Leyland TD6C, looks like a Leyland radiator. Go to Link to "birminghamhistory.co.uk" Page 1 and scroll nearly to bottom of page for a picture of EOG 231, a similar bus. OR: - taken from the same site "In September 1941, Birmingham took the opportunity to buy a batch of 20 out of 43 brand new English Electric bus bodies built for Manchester Corporation, which were intended for chassis which the Daimler Works found itself unable to supply following severe air raid damage to its factory at Coventry. 12 of these bodies were fitted on chassis from buses damaged at Hockley depot, and four on Highgate Road casualties, leaving a reserve of four bodies. Birmingham's worst air raids occurred in April 1941, which dislocated tram services throughout the city, and required buses to operate emergency services until the damage was cleared. An indirect result of the amount of repair work carried out at this time was that the supply of blue and cream painted was exhausted and vehicles had to be turned out in grey livery." So the chassis could be one of the air raid damaged ones from Hockley, from the destination indicator. -- Last edit: 2018-03-24 10:54:49
dsl ◊ 2018-03-24 15:25	johnfromstaffs wrote .... EOG 231, a similar bus. So if EOG 273 here, = mid-1938

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dsl

◊ 2018-03-24 01:36

For the bus behind - gets a page for unusual shape of driver's window. I think plate ends with 273, and destination could be Hockley.

johnfromstaffs

◊ 2018-03-24 08:11

A Manchester style body.

Possibly a Leyland TD6C, looks like a Leyland radiator.

Go to Link to "birminghamhistory.co.uk" Page 1 and scroll nearly to bottom of page for a picture of EOG 231, a similar bus.

OR: -

taken from the same site

"In September 1941, Birmingham took the opportunity to buy a batch of 20 out of 43 brand new English Electric bus bodies built for Manchester Corporation, which were intended for chassis which the Daimler Works found itself unable to supply following severe air raid damage to its factory at Coventry. 12 of these bodies were fitted on chassis from buses damaged at Hockley depot, and four on Highgate Road casualties, leaving a reserve of four bodies. Birmingham's worst air raids occurred in April 1941, which dislocated tram services throughout the city, and required buses to operate emergency services until the damage was cleared. An indirect result of the amount of repair work carried out at this time was that the supply of blue and cream painted was exhausted and vehicles had to be turned out in grey livery."

So the chassis could be one of the air raid damaged ones from Hockley, from the destination indicator.

-- Last edit: 2018-03-24 10:54:49

dsl

◊ 2018-03-24 15:25

johnfromstaffs wrote .... EOG 231, a similar bus.

So if EOG 273 here, = mid-1938

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