Norms Restoration - 31 Seater Projects & Leyland TD 5 Project

1939 Leyland TD5 [1635 DD]

2019

Discussion and Information February

Graeme Knappick is in Mullion Creek, New South Wales, Australia.
5 February
Paid a visit to Norman this afternoon.
1635 is coming along well. ��

Graeme Knappick
1635 certainly looks a bit different from when I photographed it back in 1996!
David Ian Bell
Brilliant, keep up the good work, doing yourself proud ...����
Jeffrey Bounds
Good work.
Norman Julian
Poor thing!
Norman Julian 25 Feb
Nothing to do with this project but I just wanted to share this beauty.
None around anymore.
The Bus museum of Sydney doesn't have one.
I would love to have one and restore.
This is what they called a "Low Bridge".
A little smaller in height than the average decker.

Brian Blunt
There is one still around in a private collection in Sydney.
Owner has been "restoring" it for as long as I can remember, not sure of its current status.
Scott Wilson
Brian Blunt Correct, still under resto.
Leyland body on an Albion Chassis, preserved since 1971 under cover.
Ex 1411, has 1204 chassis.
Brian Blunt
At Campbelltown, 1960s
Norman Julian
That is very good news that there at least one still around.
Peter Phelan
Brian Blunt This could be the fleet owned by former MP, Cliff Mallam.
Brian Blunt
Peter Phelan it was Campbelltown Transit which was part owned by Dick Rowe at the time.
I am not aware that Mallam was involved then, maybe at an earlier time?
Peter Phelan
Yeah, I got here in '73 and there was talk about his buses then, will check with local Hist Soc.
Andrew Blacklock
What was height of a low bridge decker? 4.2m?
Brian Blunt
About 300 mm shorter, so about 4.1m
David Wilson
13' 9" in old money I think
Norman Julian
People like me have to unscrew their head and half their shoulders to walk upright.
That's how short you have to be.
LOL
Brian Blunt
David Wilson In England, l/b's were about 13'4" compared with 14'4" for standard bus.
Terry Aiston
I seen one the other day in somebody's yard near Sackville
Norman Julian
Really!
Terry Aiston .
I would have to have a look for what address I was going to but I'm sure I can find it the street again
I'm pretty sure it looks like a derelict
Norman Julian
If it is a low bridge it would be worth looking into.
David Wilson
Not a lowbridge Norm.
Only one surviving intact lowbridge and that's already in preservation.
Another is on its side up near Nowendoc but it has been smashed to pieces by a back hoe.
Totally beyond it
Norman Julian
What is it with bloody backhoes.
Brian Blunt
I remember Dion's had one into the 70s, in their yard but I think derelict by then?
David Wilson
yes 1485 in fact -the chassis was rebodied.
Broken up when the road was put through the back of the Dion property in the late 1980s Most lowbridges were rebodied in the 1950s by private operators.
Several became private buses with West Bankstown Bus Serv, McVicars, Punchbowl B S,Lowes, Ruttys but the majority of these were later rebodied or dissappeared/scrapped
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April 2019
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