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Penman
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 Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:46 pm Post subject: Postcards |
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Hi
Found a couple of repro postcards while sorting through some photographs.
A Bedford OB? Utility on the Isle of Harris during the 40's
and Threshing 1935 Huntingdon
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Rick
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clan chieftain
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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Would that be bags of peat at the roadside.?
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Penman
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Rick wrote: | great pictures there penman, that looks like a rough track that the Bedford is traversing!!
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Well, as there is only the A859 shown on the map plus some minor roads on the south east of the island, and that is the modern map.
I suspect that it may at that time have been the main road.
In fact I just looked at an old map (1903) and at that time there were nothing but a few tracks on Harris, it would be interesting to see a '40s map |
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47p2
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Can't give you a 40s map but here is 1960
and 1963
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the fly
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| Inow know what model our school coach was circa 1953 .thanks . T F |
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Penman
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Fly
Did it have wooden slatted seats?
There was a bus company in the Guildford area that was still using one like that in the fifties, it was either Brown Buses or Tillingbourne Valley they had similar liveries, |
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Geoffp
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I think that the bus is a wartime Bedford OWB, the angular roof was a wartime economy measure. It probably had slatted seats originally, as did most wartime utility buses. I'm surprised that some of the slatted ones survived until the fifties, as they couldn't have been very comfortable.  Obviously under wartime conditions, the bodies weren't very well built and had a hard life, so many had a short life and the chassis were rebodied and the seats would have been upgraded then.
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D4B
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| Any more Postcards, I have a few Peugeot related ones to follow...... |
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