W Gash & Sons
1948
Daimler CVD6
Strachan but possible rebodied by Massey 1962

I have cobbled together this info from too many to mention web sites if you know more let me know. Also I can’t remember for the life in me where I was when I took the  photo possible Nottingham as the bus behind is a Barton Transport fleet no 703.

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The location is undoubtedly Nottingham Huntingdon Street bus station – long since disused.

It may be of interest that Huntingdon Street bus station was host to no less than ten different operators in the 1950s – Trent (about 12 routes or groups of routes), Barton (4), East Midland (3 joint with Trent), Midland General (3), Mansfield District (2), South Notts (2), Lincolnshire (1 joint with Trent), Skills (1 joint with Trent), W Gash (2) and Nottingham City Transport (1) – a mish-mash of AECs, Leylands, Daimlers, Bristols and the occasional Guy, in various shades of blue, green, red, purple and brown.

Stephen Ford

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This is the bus I went to school on and it is DD3

JB

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In addition the other bus companies were
East Midland who operated services to Doncaster & Retford via Farnsfield Bilsthorpe Edwinstowe and Ollerton
United Counties operated a London service via Northampton
Black & White Coachways to Cheltenham
Taylor Bros & Hall Bros services to Newcastle
Royal Blue operated from Maidenhead on Saturdays
Skills Scenicruisers services to Bridlington on Saturdays
Midland Red to Ashby de la Zouch/Birmingham
East Yorkshire to Scarborough on Saturdays
Lincolnshire road car to Ingoldmells Mablethorpe and I think possibly Skegness
Yorkshire Traction to Leeds via Sheffield, Barnsley and Wakefield… later as part of what was combined by United Counties/Yorkshire Traction to form the first Leeds – London service changing at Huntingdon street.

Huntingdon street bus station long before the national express routes we know today was a major hub/interchange link for all of the above operators there were a few others as I remember but at this moment in time cannot remember their details hoping this adds a little more info to your entry.

Mickey Summers (New York)

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Hi Mickey, you are quite right about the other operators. I only listed the regular local and interurban bus routes, as opposed to longer distance coach services, though some of the local operators (Trent and Barton in particular) also ran coach services, mainly to the east coast resorts. By the early 1950s (the earliest I can remember) Midland Red’s X99 Birmingham service had been transferred to Mount Street bus station, where it shared platform 6 with selected Trent routes. Actually Mount Street only had 3 platforms, numbered 4 (Midland General/Notts & Derby), 5 (Barton) and 6. Not sure why there was no 1,2 or 3! I think the idea of Mount Street was to hive off all the routes that left the city in a north westerly direction via Canning Circus, so that they didn’t have to fight their way through increasing traffic around Huntingdon Street.

Stephen Ford