Buses in Nottingham

[LizzieM 9,509]

# 939

Mudgie49 has had very serious health issues in the past year but he's recovering well. I spoke to him on the phone recently about his good pal dgbrit's passing.  I think Mudgie looks in occasionally but is only really interested in 'Nottstalgia' and historical local information, of which we have sadly been lacking just lately.   

[The Pianoman 1,535]

Stephen Ford hasn't been here since April either. Bus threads normally get him interested.

[Merthyr Imp 729]

I always found it very annoying when people got in the way while I was trying to take a photo of a bus.

[catfan 14,793]

It always annoyed me when driving a bus the people trying to take photo's getting in my way too !

[Deepdene Boy 642]

Stephen Ford is still about, he posted on the Old Bus Photos forum on 14th July

[NewBasfordlad 3,599]

Yes CT most annoying I would think but the bus would always win

[plantfit 7,597]

I know it's not Nottingham but I didn't know where to put this one,Did you ever have this on a destination board on your bus Mick?

 

 

Rog

[Keith Hambleton 14]

On 26/12/2005 at 1:28 AM, rob237 said:

Talbot Street/Hanley Street:

Having recently visited the Talbot Street area, for the first time in more than 40 years, I was reminded of the NCT buses (Services 1,7 and 22) which formerly terminated on the sloping Hanley Street.

Due to the steep incline there, it was usual practice to place a wooden block (shaped like a cheese wedge, kept in the drivers cab and attached to a chain) beneath the front offside wheel whilst stationary and loading.

Notice there is a 1950's picture, elsewhere on the Forums, of a No 1 standing at Hanley Street - but unusually devoid of it's block!

Wasn't this system in use throughout the City? ...... especially in the more hilly areas such as those Carlton routes, off Porchester Road and also some Sherwood terminii stops.

Anyone recall where else the blocks were regularly used?

Cheers

Robt P.

Might be abit late, But at that time i drove for NCT and used to drive on the 1/7/22 services and never used or saw the blocks and was many times on Hanley street.

[Keith Hambleton 14]

On 11/09/2015 at 4:19 PM, catfan said:

#666. Mess.

Could have been operated by Parliament Street Depot at that time, some routes were one man operated then but not any from Bulwell Depot.

When I went on in '74 we did that service with a conductor, later becoming one man operated.

I can't remember a inspector Revel off hand but the name is vaguely fimiliar, it will most probably come back to me later !

I wonder if that bus was a service 38, a short version of the service 39 ? Some of those Daimlers were used on that route early '70s.

I wonder if any one remembers Inspectors George Potter, was another one but at 82 years old it seams to have gone, I think Less Wilson was one as well.

[Keith Hambleton 14]

On 24/01/2015 at 11:18 AM, terence12 said:

Bilborough Depot, back of Glaisdale School, brilliant Snooker table, when i was on spotting duty always ended up ironing it, never got a game on it though, never good enough,

Now council offeses, Had many good years working for NCT Time keeper Harry Hill used to get me spotting most mornings.

 

[katyjay 5,091]

I rode the 22 all the time. I remember the chock being used at Hanley Street. You might have been my driver Keith, I lived across the road and up a few doors from the terminus on Deepdene. Left there in 1968. My dad's friend Stan Meakin drove our route sometimes. Before Photobucket started messing everyone around, there was a photo on here of the 22 parked on Hanley street with a chock under the wheel, IIFC.

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

This is probably what katyjay was referring to. You can't actually see there is a chock at the wheels, but given the slope of the road it's likely . I also remember seeing them used here -  on whichever bus came from Radford. 

 

[denshaw 2,872]

Spotting:  going in as a spare driver in case other drivers didn't turn up.

[davep5491 360]

Katy,  My dad used to drive on routes 1/7/22 and others around Aspley/ Broxtowe area I remember a clippie she wore bright red lipstick painted on which looked like a bow.

[katyjay 5,091]

Hazel Nutt!

[katyjay 5,091]

CliffTon, that's not the pic, I don't know where I've seen it, but it was a close-up sideways shot of a 22 I think. 

[BulwellBrian 107]

I think chocks were sometimes used by trolley buses on route 43 when they parked on the hill on Highbury Road near the old town hall.

[plantfit 7,597]

I remember chocks under the front drivers wheel of trolley buses on that bridge outside the town hall as well BB,driver leaning on the front mudguard having a smoke,memories of me being dragged to the market on a Saturday by mother and grandmother from Albert street down the side of the Highbury picture house

 

Rog

[catfan 14,793]

On 8/28/2017 at 6:50 PM, plantfit said:

I know it's not Nottingham but I didn't know where to put this one,Did you ever have this on a destination board on your bus Mick?

 

 

Rog

No Rog, we just went & had a kip on the back seat !

[catfan 14,793]

Motor buses & trolley buses used wooden chocks on hills & certain terminai  to stop the bus rolling away

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

On 01/09/2017 at 1:31 PM, katyjay said:

I rode the 22 all the time. I remember the chock being used at Hanley Street.  Before Photobucket started messing everyone around, there was a photo on here of the 22 parked on Hanley street with a chock under the wheel, IIFC.

 

katyjay has now re-discovered the photo and asked me to re-post it. The chock is under the front nearside wheel.

[katyjay 5,091]

Thanks Kev, you're a star!

[FLY2 10,108]

My, my. Nice and clean, no gaudy advertising, but with clear number and destination! 

Not like today's ramshackle fleet ! And what's 'City Loop' supposed to be. That's not much use to a stranger !

[katyjay 5,091]

The number 1 bus seems all wrong. For one thing, the driver would change his destination back to Aspley as soon as he arrived at Hanley Street. And going into town it would say Hanley Street, not City.

[Jill Sparrow 10,307]

I remember catching the bus from Hanley Street. We had a number of choices which passed the bottom of Bobbers Mill Road over the years: 1, 7, 16, 22, possibly 32 and 74 but not sure about those, it's a long time ago!