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Pedrocut

Pedrocut

Master Barmmie
I have obtained the small booklet issued for the 70 years of service by the BCS (1881-1951)

Just flicking through there is a picture that I will scan later for the Forum showing the BCS Traffic Dept Coaches. I had not realised that they ran weekly services during the summer months to Westward Ho, North Devon and to Corton near Great Yarmouth!

I will post bits as I go through it.
 
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Pedrocut said:
I have obtained the small booklet issued for the 70 years of service by the BCS (1881-1951)

Just flicking through there is a picture that I will scan later for the Forum showing the BCS Traffic Dept Coaches. I had not realised that they ran weekly services during the summer months to Westward Ho, North Devon and to Corton near Great Yarmouth!

I will post bits as I go through it.
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The full cab looks like it is a Maudslay, the half cabs appear to be AEC's. If the Maudslay is a BCS coach, although it has a Coventry registration plate, then they seem to have made a reverse livery choice.
 
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The full cab looks like it is a Maudsley, the half cabs appear to be AEC's. If the Maudsley is a BCS coach, although it has a Coventry registration plate, then they seem to have made a reverse livery choice.
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The first coach is definitely a Maudslay Marathon, a Coventry manufacturer later taken over by AEC although for a time after many of those produced still displayed the Maudslay badge. A similar thing happened after AEC also took over Stockport based Crossley Motors.

Simon
 
Hi Alan,

They certainly had a good few in the early 1950s before the little green Morrison Electric
vans gradually took over.

I lived not far from the Co-op bakery in Manor Road Stechford, and remember the horses
being led each evening from the Bakery down to their stabling at the bottom of Station Road.

I believe the stables were down a little lane opposite the Bull's Head (Manor House) pub.

Kind regards
Dave
 
Lovely, but I know someone who was taken to a funeral in Wolverhampton which had similar when he was about 13 and is a bit scared of horses even now, 20 years later, which he attributes to that experience
 
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