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Some of Norman’s workmates from the united bus depot at East Loftus, Norman is standing at the back next to Don Pinkney, 5th from the left in the second row is Glady’s Pinkney (nee Pearson) do you know any more names of the drivers and clippies? Ernest Shaw is identified as first left on back row by his son Derek Shaw.
Pity that the image is damaged. A United ’G’-type single decker plods valiantly on (it took more than a drop of rain to cancel a service in those days!).
I’d like to think that this is the remains of the bus we’ve seen hanging backwards over the parapet in previous posts – I certainly hope so for the passengers and driver’s sake!
Classic photograph – I suspect the bus is a Dennis and that it is the 1950’s. That number plate would be worth a fortune! Come on you bus fans – more details please!
Difficult to say which Company owned this bus, but if it was the Loftus Company, then they eventually went bust and their assets were obtained by Mr Keith Watson at Saltburn. When his Bus enterprise failed they were all bought up by what went on to become The Saltburn Motor Services……sadly also swallowed up by the ill-fated Cleveland Transit Bus Company. The moral – don’t own a bus company!
A very busy day on Mill Bank – two buses!, a lovely view of Kilton Beck and Kilton Mill, with Duck Hole pit in the background to the left.
The caption says ”Cleveland Train Service, Loftus and Skinningrove Motor Express”. I think this is an image of the bus service laid on by the North Eastern Railway when Kilton viaduct was being converted to an embankment. It shows an open bus outside Loftus Station.
Enough of an unusual spectacle to atttract a crowd of bystanders – but was it? In those not-so-far-off days of crash gear boxes and cable brakes it only took a missed gear-change to set you off in a rearwards direction! On todays crowded roads it would have ended up with a multiple vehicle collision. |
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