Norms Restoration - 31 Seater Projects & Leyland TD 5 Project |
1939 Leyland TD5 [1635 DD]
2018
Discussion March
- Chris Dempsey 16 March
- Rover Motors 15 Leyland TD4 MO-493 parked near Cessnock railway station.
- Picture from the Ken Magor collection
- Norman Julian
- Unusual door location. Central position.
- I like it though.
- Norman Julian
- Was there sliding doors on this bus Chris Dempsey or no doors?
- Chris Dempsey
- I think just open entrance no door Norm
- Jane Jones
- Centre door was quite common in some parts of the UK at various times.
- The operator with the longest name, Stalybridge,Hyde Mossley and Duckinfield Joint Electricity and Traction Board (AKA 'The Joint Board') had a thing about centre doors during the fifties.
- The forward entrance ovetook the centre entrance meaning the driver could watch and operate the doors.
- Accelerated by the move to rear engined buses.
- One of the main problems with front and centre entrance 'deckers is the difficulty of incorporating them into the lowbridge layout.
- Only with advent of the low height bus, like the Bristol Lodekka, did the front entrance really become popular.
- Norman Julian
- Very interesting Jane, thanks.
- Anthony Christie
- No 15 remained an orphan.
- Moved on to Linsleys and Chapmans at the end of its life.
- Norman Julian
- A one of huh!
- What became of her?
- Anthony Christie
- Norman Julian woodchips.
- Norman Julian
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