Buses in Nottingham

[Willow wilson 894]

Chain, Rog. They did the job properly.

[catfan 14,793]

Quite correct WW.

[denshaw 2,871]

The Alton family ran Redhill stores.

[notty ash 370]

Delaine is still running, an amazing survivor. I remember seeing their buses in the 1960s in Peterborough. They always looked very smart in their blue and cream livery. Quite a contrast to the boring Tilling red of Eastern Counties.

[denshaw 2,871]

I think 397 and 398 were slightly lower. Did they go along Wilford Lane?

[Cliff Ton 10,458]

In the early days when I were a lad, the buses to Clifton were 61, 61a, 66, 67 and 68. They could go either over Clifton Bridge or Trent Bridge, you had to read the small print, or the colour of the bus.

 

In later years (possibly the 80s), the Clifton Bridge buses became 67 and 68 while the Trent Bridge versions were 47 and 48.

[Deepdene Boy 642]

51 minutes ago, IAN123. said:

Thanks, this would have been in the 80's..Siverdale was a nice estate then.

Ian, I can date the picture quite accurately. The Clifton services were numbered into separate series wef 14th June 1980. 41, 46,47,48 via Clifton Bridge, 61A, 67 & 68 via Trent Bridge. The  batch of lowheight Leyland Atlantean PDR1/3s, 395-400 (VAU395-400J), were withdrawn in February 1981. So the picture  was taken sometime within that period.All bar 397 were exported to Hong Kong. This batch was bought to operate the Clifton services that went via Trent Bridge and had to negotiate the former GCR bridge on Wilford Lane. After this was removed in 1974 these buses were used on either of the routings  to Clifton.

[Cliff Ton 10,458]

14 minutes ago, Deepdene Boy said:

Ian, I can date the picture quite accurately. The Clifton services were numbered into separate series wef 14th June 1980. 41, 46,47,48 via Clifton Bridge, 61A, 67 & 68 via Trent Bridge. 

 

Well I was almost right !!   Just got the numbers the wrong way round. I was driving my own car by then so didn't use buses so much.

[denshaw 2,871]

I drove buses on the Clifton route 1979-1980 that's when they had conductors.

[AfferGorritt 868]

Anybody remember a MGO conductor called Roland who used to sing Gilbert & Sullivan on the bus? He used to lag himself with newspaper under his uniform in winter, and once got to Eastwood and changed the destination number he had been showing all the way from Nottingham, much to the consternation of his passengers!

[The Pianoman 1,532]

The picture of the MGO National above is not at Langley Mill. I think Underwood had closed long before NBC had appeared Stand corrected if proved wrong) The red National at the side of it is a Trent one. I feel that the picture is most likely Alfreton depot.

[Deepdene Boy 642]

1 hour ago, The Pianoman said:

The picture of the MGO National above is not at Langley Mill. I think Underwood had closed long before NBC had appeared Stand corrected if proved wrong) The red National at the side of it is a Trent one. I feel that the picture is most likely Alfreton depot.

I might be wrong, but I think that the photo of Midland General Leyland National 416 is a little misleading. This particular bus in now in preservation in this livery, and the red one alongside looks to be more like a preserved Midland Red example. Midland Red applied local identity branding (eg Chaserider for services around Cannock chase) on white vinyls above the windows. I cannot recall Trent ever doing this. Therefore, I believe that this picture was taken at a bus rally rather than outside Alfreton depot, but I cannot say where the rally would have been.

[The Pianoman 1,532]

You may well be right. Late on Trent did paint their Nationals red with a broad cream stripe along the side of the roof above the windows but the stripe was painted to fit the panel ends. The one in the picture doesn't as they are cut of square at the ends. I don't remember ever having seen a national in MGO livery at all - but that doesn't mean there wasn't any.

[Deepdene Boy 642]

Pianoman you may be right about the preserved Trent liveried National. In which case if there was a rally/open day at Alfreton depot, then that could well be the location.

 

[Deepdene Boy 642]

Could have been a bus rally in Newark. I certainly don't think that these two were in normal service when the photo was taken.

[notty ash 370]

The MG Leyland National photo is on this site https://showbus.com/gallery/wm/mgoc5.htm tagged as In t

 

The early days of the National Bus Company companies whose livery was blue based applied a blue and white scheme in corporate style. Hence Midland General's Leyland National 415 (XRB415L), seen at the Trent Centenary, is preserved in the scheme. It was not long though, with blue liveries in the minority, NBC HQ eliminated the blue option. With Midland General then under the wing of poppy red Trent, the blue gave way to red.

[The Pianoman 1,532]

Thanks.

[plantfit 7,580]

There is some Nottingham buses,Trent,Barton,Gash,Corporation at about 6 minutes

 

 

Rog

[Cliff Ton 10,458]

Even if you aren't bothered about buses, it's full of fascinating street scenes showing life in the 1950s.

 

And a mistake in the commentary in the Nottingham section....at 6:15 it's described as "non-stop action at Mansfield bus station" which is actually Mount Street.

[notty ash 370]

Notts & Derby and Nottingham trolleybuses briefly on this one

 

 

[Oztalgian 3,271]

On ‎08‎/‎04‎/‎2018 at 3:19 AM, plantfit said:

There is some Nottingham buses,Trent,Barton,Gash,Corporation at about 6 minutes

Some great shots there Plantfit.

At about 6 minutes the narrator talks about a Barton bus at Mansfield bus station?

I can never remember Barton running buses to Mansfield and at that time Mansfield did not have a central bus station and buses to various parts of the area had different termini. Buses to Sutton and Huthwaite stopped on Queens Street near the Co-oP and the Queens Head and buses to Newark, Bilsthorpe , Blidworth, Bingham, and the B8 MGO left from near the Midland Hotel at Mansfield railway station.

I did not recognise any or the street views as Mansfield either.

[plantfit 7,580]

Correct Oz, as CT points out it was Mount street not Mansfield

 

Rog

[Deepdene Boy 642]

17 hours ago, IAN123. said:

...is this Clifton?

It most certainly is. It is Green Lane/Langstrath Drive, terminus of the 67, for many years. This was my local stop for nine years between September '68 and October'77

[alan s 156]

In case you bus fans didn’t know...

 

http://northpointproductions.co.uk/ruddington/event/april-road-transport-event/?instance_id=4757

[Cliff Ton 10,458]

Coming off Cavendish Road (in the background) and onto Coningswath (in the foreground).