UTF503H is a BMC LD with Wadham Stringer ambulance body. Bought as a camper but needing a refit and some chassis work progress has been slow with this due to other projects.

This bus would be FOR SALE for preservation if the right person came along.
Built by Dormobile as a prototype 20 seater on the Freight-Rover chassis and later used as a demonstrator hence the window layout is different to the standard production version. I bought it from a local scrap yard to save it from being broken up the intention was to pass it on to a local bus museum to help fill a gap in their collection but due to a fall out its stayed with me. Some work has been done but its current use is a store shed.

SYG561 is a Bedford SBG, with a 41 seat Duple body. It was new to Walton & Helliwell in the spring of 1957. In May 1958 Walton & Helliwell was taken over by Hebble and received a fleet number 21. It served with Hebble until the end of the 1965 coaching season when it was withdrawn and sold to a dealer.

Over the next 10 years it was to see further service with a succession of smaller operators; Williams, Cresswell (May 1966); Chumbley, Birmingham (May 1971); Whiteley, Old Whittington (March 1973); Johnson, Goxhill (July 1973). It was then initially secured for preservation by two local enthusiasts in November 1976 and later passed into the ownership of the West Yorkshire Transport Museum in March 1990.

It was however later deemed to be surplus to the museum’s requirements and was offered for sale, passing to a private owner in Bradford who planned to convert it into a mobile home. The conversion was only partially carried out. After standing out of use for seven years it was put up for sale and passed to its present owner.

GHD215 Yorkshire Woollen fleet no. 871

Bought by the BET owned Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co. Ltd. in 1961 as one of a batch of 6 Ford Thames 570E's with Duple's Yeoman body. Renumbered from 871 to 437 in 1967, Withdrawn from service and sold to the well known dealer / breaker North's of Sherburn by October 1967. Sold to Hedon Motor co. of Hedon November 1967.

Has been in preservation for a number of years firstly with Yorkshire Woollen staff also a spell with the ill fated Transperiance museum at Bradford before coming into my care

Currently having braking system overhauled ready for a return to the road hopefully by Easter 2009

Bus services in the Heavy Woollen towns were provided by Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co, based at garages in Dewsbury, Heckmondwike and Liversedge. The company had used a maroon and cream livery until 1953, but in that year as a result of spray painting, an all over red livery was introduced.

DHD177 was delivered in 1959 and withdrawn in October 1971 being sold to North’s, the Sherburn-in-Elmnet dealers.

DHD177 has enjoyed a varied career since and is now in its second spell of preservation. Initially sold in September 1972 to Lincolnshire operator, Peter Sheffield of Cleethorpes, with whom it served for 6 years. It was first bought for preservation in December 1978 by a Group in Batley but was later sold to Darlington based driver training school Drivewell.

In January 1991 it returned to preservation in Dewsbury and was bought by me October 1997 (the first bus I bought and still its not on road    ).

MUA45P was one of twelve LHS6Ls purchased by the West Yorkshire PTE, and was one of six which arrived in 1976, itself initially allocated to Leeds, though some of the others of the batch were allocated to former Baddeley Brothers services in the Holmfirth area.

The LHSs enjoyed only short lives with the PTE, 5 of the batch were sold to Tayside in 1980 while another 5 passed to Merseyside PTE. One was converted to a Metrotrain information unit, thus 45 became 2160 in the Merseyside fleet. All 5 of the Merseyside exiles were on the move again in 1984 to Nottingham, where 45 became 731.

A varied career continued for 45 with moves to Welsh operator Brewers of Caerau in 1987 and to Steve Stockdale for use on Selby local services leaving them in 1991. It then ran with small operators in Buckinghamshire and Surrey before being bought for preservation. It returned north in 1998 being purchased by me and a friend in 2000.

updated 2008-06-24

Photos taken while riding along Leeds & Liverpool canal between Apperley Bridge & Bingley
The bikes used were my 1920's bike believed to be a New Hudson and my friend was on his 1940's W^D Philips

Christmas get together & dinner

Day out in York not many photos inside the NRM due to part of building being closed by a security alert

A planning meeting held at Pocklington in readiness for the National Association of Veteran Cycle Clubs 2008 rally to be held September
Also included was a bike ride of around 14 miles

More info about the rally next year will follow shortly

A weekend spent with the Bygone Byke Club Yorkshire over at Pocklington.

This club uses the vintage bicycles as they were meant to used which includes some members riding ordinaries (Penny Farthings), I even had the opportunity to ride a 1890 Humber safety cycle with solid tyres for nearly 17 miles which was a really odd feeling compared to my normal more modern pneumatic tyre bicycles.

Sadly not all my photos came out from the weekend hence no picture of the Humber safety cycle and a few others. Humber photo now rectified thanks to another member of the club.

first outing for my Trilox invalid carriage

see 'My own collection' for photos of the Trilox

Celebrating 25 years of looking like a building site. I've been visiting the MRC on occasions over the past 20 years although they have erected some more buildings the place still looks very unpresentable even the passenger carriages are only painted on one side.

The index photo say's it all.

A mud bath greeted all

The first outing for my Bristol LHS MUA45P in its new livery and a great weekend it turned out to be

Photos are of varying quality due to camera problems (they don't like being dropped)

Great Orm Tramway, Llandudno & Colwyn Bay tramway, vintage caravans, Gallopers, model railway exhibition & views of Llandudno

Photos are of varying quality due to camera problems (they don't like being dropped)

Photos are of varying quality due to camera problems (they don't like being dropped)

Photos are of varying quality due to camera problems (they don't like being dropped)

Photos are of varying quality due to camera problems (they don't like being dropped)

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