Daimler Buses - Huddersfield Transport 426 (AVH 426B) Roe bodied Daimler CVG6LX-30 chassis in Elland, West Yorkshire, 1960s.

            From a Daimler buses brochure two very fine images of Huddersfield Transport and the Roe bodied CVG6LX-30 varients that formed part of that West Yorkshire's municipal fleet. The image to the left is, I think, Elland West Vale - with that to the right being a very fine shot of the view down into Elland on the old Huddersfield Road before the new Ainley road over the top was constructed - but I'm happy to stand corrected! 

The streetscenes are very redolent of the 1960s. In the main image the GEC Viatron street lighting lanterns are carried on recently redundant trolleybus overhead poles, the once great Huddersfield trolleybus system being abandoned in the 1960s and indeed, this bus is a direct replacement of a trolleybus route. The 'old' trolleybus route 30, from West Vale through Huddersfield town centre and on to Almondbury was abandoned on 9 November 1961 being replaced by buses. This vehicle is, I think, fleet number 426  (AVH 426B) one of ten delivered in January 1964 for further conversion (nominally for service 60) and so this image is likely to date from at least 1964/5. The text notes the 'hilly nature' of the network - one of the reasons trolleybuses had been so successful in this town and even allowing for bigger Gardner engine fitted to this batch I suspect that performance up this hill would not have been quite so sparkling as that of the replaced trolleybus!

The borough used a striking livery picked up in this shot, along with a National petrol station.

Taken on: September 16, 2012

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Huddersfield bus 426

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Huddersfield bus route 30

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Sets appears in: • Things Yorkshire • Daimler more » • Huddersfield and district • Daimler of Coventry, 1896 - 1966 brochure • GEC - the General Electric Company of England « less

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/4.0, 1/100 sec, 105mm, ISO 320 (more info) (hide info)

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