FLY2 10,108 Posted July 17, 2016 Report Share Posted July 17, 2016 Up the A614 not far after Leapool island, there is a sign saying Barton Farm in exactly the same style of lettering as on their busses. Any family connection I wonder. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 This is clearly Huntingdon Street, but I don't remember "East Midland". Am I right in thinking they were in the Mansfield area ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BilboroughShirley 1,120 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 #224 Merthyr Imp: great photo. Capochi's snack bar is there. I am sure that they also had a snack bar on Chapel Bar, just around the corner from the cinema. I remember a very snowy winter day in 1968 when I set out from Coventry to Nottingham at lunch time on a Friday. I caught a double decker bus from Coventry to Leicester. It took hours as they had to push cars over Ansty bridge one at a time! The bus made it OK. We got to Leicester and eventually a Barton's bus arrived to take us to Nottingham. By then it was dark. I sat on the front seat and it was quite exciting as the brilliant driver took us on the route to Nottingham, down the country roads in the snow. By the time we got to Huntingdon Street the last bus for Bilborough has long gone so I got a taxi. The journey home took over 9 hours and I was so glad to get into Huntingdon Street. The bus drivers were great that day. No mobile phones in those days and no land line at home. My parents expected me to be capable of looking out for myself and I did. Dad always insisted that I had some money hidden in the bottom of my handbag, enough to get a taxi home from Nottingham! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 #227 East Midland were based in Chesterfield and had just the one route into Nottingham - the 12A as shown, which ran to Chesterfield. This is one of my oldest photos, probably dating to 1963, showing one of their then-new Albion (Leyland) Lowlanders on the 12A. It was around that time one of those operated on loan to NCT to act as a demonstration vehicle for the type, but of course none were purchased. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 49 minutes ago, BilboroughShirley said: #224 Merthyr Imp: great photo. Capochi's snack bar is there. I am sure that they also had a snack bar on Chapel Bar, just around the corner from the cinema. If you haven't seen it, there's a thread which includes a lot of mentions and photos of Capoccis. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Actually, East Midland had another two routes into Nottingham - the 36 from Doncaster via Worksop and the 37 from Retford. Like the 12A they were all operated jointly with Trent, who confusingly used different route numbers. The Trent version of the 12A was a 63, the 36 was a 64, and the 37 was an 80. (Are you confused yet? You soon will be!) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Probably just the picture angle- but that East Midland bus in Cliffs photo looks long at the back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 1 hour ago, iandawson said: Probably just the picture angle- but that East Midland bus in Cliffs photo looks long at the back. Well, it was 30 feet long (a Leyland Titan PD3). It was perhaps a characteristic of all 30-foot front-engine double deckers. Compare with this view of one Barton's rebuilds: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Thanks Merthyr, that's a great picture. Saw a photo of a Camms coach outside Little woods today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 12 hours ago, iandawson said: Thanks Merthyr, that's a great picture. Saw a photo of a Camms coach outside Little woods today. Bad luck. But seriously: 1. Are Camm's still operating? 2. Is Littlewoods still open in Nottingham? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,465 Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 I'm not sure about the first question, but I can definitely answer the second. Littlewoods aren't operating in Nottingham; that building has been Primark for several years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 I think you will find that 'Camm's Collapsible's' have .....err......................collapsed Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 I was on one years ago going to Stoke for a Forest match. It couldn't get up the hills, and a replacement was summoned . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 I've a couple of Camm's photos somewhere on this Forum (don't ask me where), but this seems to be the only other one I ever took - a Ford R226 seen leaving the Victoria Bus Station in the early 1970s. It must have been on hire to Lincolnshire or Trent - or I suppose National Express by then - for use on an express service. As I remember, it was unusual for any of them to hire a Camm's vehicle... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notty ash 370 Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Ref #229, what's the Barton bus on the far right? Remember the 12A very well. What a route though, via Hucknall. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 2 hours ago, notty ash said: Ref #229, what's the Barton bus on the far right? That's one of Barton's rebuilds which they produced in various configurations. Can't quite make out the number, but it could be 668, which would be a typical example of what they did - the chassis of that was originally a Leyland Titan PD1 double decker which Barton extended and fitted with single deck bodywork of their own manufacture in place of the original. It was then classified as a Barton BTS1. It would have been on the Leicester service in that photo. The photo at #233 is of one of Barton's double deck rebuilds - a Barton BTD2. No. 901 seen there also originally had the chassis from a Leyland PD1 which was lengthened to 30 feet by Barton. New bodywork was by Northern Counties Motor & Engineering Co. (NCME) of Wigan. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notty ash 370 Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Thanks for that - far more detail than I could have imagined! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Guest Posted September 1, 2016 Report Share Posted September 1, 2016 Found this snap on wife's Facebook.. Derby? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deepdene Boy 642 Posted September 1, 2016 Report Share Posted September 1, 2016 It is certainly a Derby City Transort bus behind Camm's ex Potteries Leyland Leopard Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,292 Posted August 28, 2018 Report Share Posted August 28, 2018 Sausage and brown sauce cobs waiting for a blue bus. Is that an F3 at the stand? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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