Stans Gallery - Part Two - Not Sheffield Corporation

Stans Gallery - Part Two - Not Sheffield Corporation

Following on from my Sheffield Corporation gallery here are eight other shots which I took in the South Yorkshire/Derbyshire area. I'm afraid a few of them were taken in low light.

Stan Zapiec
04/2014

Rotherham Corporation 203 - GET 503 a 1951 Crossley DD42/7with a H30/26R Crossley body.

A rather poor photo of a Rotherham Trolleybus I'm afraid I cannot make out the registration.

Here is another Rotherham Crossley unfortunately unable to read the registration.

Chesterfield Corporation 217 - 217 GRA a 1958 Leyland Titan PD2/30 with a
H31/28RD Weymann Orion body.

Chesterfield Corporation 301 - 301 XRA a 1962 Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX with a
MCCW H44/33F body, looks to be on Chesterfield Road in Sheffield?

Mexborough & Swinton 6 - 7006 WU a 1961 Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 with a Weymann LD39/33F

Mexborough & Swinton 13 - 8413 YG a 1962 Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 with a Weymann LD39/33F

Not much known about this vehicle but registration NDE 555 Henry Hulley and sons of Baslow a Sentinel, model unknown, bodywork more than likely Sentinel.

 


26/04/14 - 07:30

More memories rekindled! Particularly evocative with the shots taken at dusk.
The Rotherham Crossleys were regular performers on the joint 69 service. I travelled on them for five months during the bad winter of 1962/3 when I was doing my basic apprenticeship training at Parkgate. They seemed rather unrefined with lots of vibration compared with the Sheffield PD2s which were their contribution to the service. Despite the weather I don’t recall ever failing to get from my home on one side of Sheffield to the training centre on the far side of Rotherham.
Crossley 203 (the first picture) is at Ickles, just outside Rotherham Town Centre on a short working to Templeboro (see 1367 in Stans Gallery part 1). The second unidentified Crossley looks to be on Sheffield Road, between Templeboro and Tinsley.
Mexborough and Swinton was my first introduction to lowbridge Atlanteans, 14 in total in batches of 11, 1 and 2 if my memory is correct. These were our transport from Rotherham out to Parkgate. The conductors were exclusively female, many were young and rather attractive to my teenage eyes! The other attraction of M and S was the regular intake of ex Southdown Leylands, mainly double deck but with some coaches included. Little did I know that I was to encounter 105 lowbridge Atlanteans a few years later when working for PMT.
For those following Old Lamposts on the Net, note the difference in the rather ornate Sheffield examples compared with the stark utilitarian Rotherham offerings.

Ian Wild


26/04/14 - 13:13

Chesterfield 301 seems to be near the bottom of Chantrey Road having just passed the Post Office and the Police Station (in the background) on the A61 in Woodseats. It will just have passed Scarsdale Road (cross roads) and the top of Woodseats Road both timing points for the many buses which passed this way. [11, 12, 38, 75, 2, 3 - and others I'm sure, but my memory fails me.....]

David Oldfield


26/04/14 - 18:21

NDE 555 was a Sentinel STC4 with a Sentinel 40-seat bus body new in August 1951 to D J Morrison of Tenby, passing to Hulley from Bellis, Buckley in 1959. It was withdrawn by Hulley in 1964.

David Hick


30/04/14 - 18:51

The difference in lamp posts was because the ornate ones were on tram routes. Electric trams started in 1899, & Sheffield was very proud of their posts, many were much more fancy. The picture of 2 Crossley seems to be on Attercliffe Road as it approaches The Wicker, or near Tinsley near what was Tinsley Wire & Thomas Wards scrapyard, where all scrapped Sheffield Trams met their death in 1961.

Andy Fisher


30/04/14 - 18:54

As a child and well into my teens I was a regular if infrequent user of the joint Sheffield Rotherham service.
During that time we never went on a Rotherham bus in either direction So my question is just how much of the service was in Rotherham hands In deed the only Rotherham bus I can recall was a Roe bodied AEC Renown which passed Grannies on its way to Rotherham.
Two aspects of the journey Ido recall were the leather rope barrier placed across the platform when the bus was full and passing Tinsley tram sherds which were always full on Sundays Happy halcyon days!

Chris Hough


05/05/14 - 07:39

NDE 555, an STC4/40 with Sentinel B40F bodywork (chassis number STC4/40/79) was new to Morrison of Tenby in August 1951, fleet number 33. In November 1958 it was sold to Frank Cowley, the Salford based dealer, and then to Bellis of Buckley (near Mold) the following month for use on works services. It was returned to Cowley after six months in North Wales and then sold on to Hulley in July 1959 as their fleet number 16.
Hulley mainly used the vehicle on service 2 from Chesterfield to Baslow and Tideswell, although it also made appearances on service 1 from Chesterfield to Bakewell and beyond. In one report in a PSV Circle news-sheet of the time it was described as having been upseated to B44F but this remains unconfirmed and unlikely. Hulley withdrew the vehicle in March 1964 and sold it to Hadley Trading of Wolverhampton for scrap. Nevertheless there is a slightly later report (1965) of the vehicle in a yard in Birmingham, still intact. That was, however, the final sighting.

Neville Mercer

 


 

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