Waterside Echo Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 1942 Sheffield AEC Regent No 472. Bodywork by Beadle of Rayleigh, Essex. Date of photo unknown. W/E. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterside Echo Posted June 18, 2016 Author Share Posted June 18, 2016 Beadle's workshops were in Dartford. It looks as though Sheffield Transports Regents 472/473 were the only two buses they ever purchased with bodywork built by them. They were registered HWA 72 & HWA 73. W/E. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voldy Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I have been in touch with a relative who was born,brought up and worked in Essex who confirms that the J C Beadle of Dartford location is the likeliest place of construction (not Rayleigh) and that there was a family connection with Beadles of Rochester. The likelihood is that the bus was purchased for the purpose of ferrying workers to the major construction sites in the County during the fifties and sixties and when no longer useful met its unfortunate end at a stock car spectacular in Rayleigh Stadium which also housed Greyhound and Speedway events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voldy Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Found another picture of 472 in 'Sheffield Trams Remembered' by Graham Hague & Howard Turner published in 1987.The Austin A40 suggests a date between 1949 and 1952 the disposal of the bus being given as 1952 (Charles C Hall). Does anyone know if it was ever painted in blue and cream; it would have been grey when delivered in 1942? Location is Fargate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiddlestick Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 Great photo Voldy. Look how sparking clean the glass is on 158. Imagine having worked at Tommy Ward's and being ordered to smash such splendid things to destruction ! Note the mirror arrangement on the trams, all they would show the driver would be other vehicles when they were almost in line with the very front of the tram, but then the trams didn't need to worry about affecting overtaking traffic or vehicles alongside, except on sharp bends. Where's that part hidden PD2 going if it's turning left ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voldy Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 The only route that I remember turning into Surrey street then (1950's) would have been the 61 from Southey (and/or Shirecliffe) to Nether Edge. Would return to town as either 63/97 or 98. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterside Echo Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 On 29/10/2016 at 20:19, Voldy said: The only route that I remember turning into Surrey street then (1950's) would have been the 61 from Southey (and/or Shirecliffe) to Nether Edge. Would return to town as either 63/97 or 98. Or a school special going to the Montgomery Hall. We had from a trip from Hillfoot to see a show there, it must have been the late 40s to early 50s as I remember singing god save the king in the National Anthem. W/E. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Does the photo actually show one of our buses painted in the short-lived green livery...which few people seem to remember? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boginspro Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 1 hour ago, lysander said: Does the photo actually show one of our buses painted in the short-lived green livery...which few people seem to remember? I may be wrong but from memory it may be dark blue, driver trainers at the time were usually painted in the reverse livery but I think some never got the cream bands or only got one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voldy Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 16 hours ago, lysander said: Does the photo actually show one of our buses painted in the short-lived green livery...which few people seem to remember? No, the 'Driver under instruction' buses at that time were all-over grey which HWA72 presumably carried until its demise. The wartime Daimlers and Guys were all grey on delivery though after the war were repainted or (in the case of some Daimlers) rebodied. The relatively short 'Green Experiment' was from March to July 1952 and by public demand was rapidly abandoned! After this, hand painted adverts began to appear on the trams and buses once more. I think that the "reverse livery" mentioned by boginspro featured on some of the pre-war buses and the Rotherham buses carried such a livery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boginspro Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 We have been here before, on the Bus Photo's thread bus man and transit seem to think the same as me, perhaps there were different colours at different times but I remember a dark blue trainer when I first went on the buses. We also had towing wagons in the reversed Farington livery. I have a picture of a trainer about 1950 in the reversed livery but the site upload keeps failing. EDIT here is a link to the picture ----------------- https://www.dropbox.com/s/rc1icj6sux7asv3/bus_park.jpg?dl=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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