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Strange Request

Oisin

Oisin

gone but not forgotten
Have any of you bus enthusiast got a picture of a BCT bus badly crash/bomb damaged? I'd like to use one as an illustration to a story I'm working on set in the mid-sixties. I'd be very grateful if someone could oblige.

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Thanks in anticipation,

Paul.
 
Thanks Len,

I did do a search and the nearest I got was the picture you've posted. Unfortunately, the vehicle is too new and a WM not a BCT. However, on second thoughts, a burnt out rather than crashed bus would suit the storyline better.
 
Careful Oisin, I notice that the burnt out Metrobus is one the Claire Pendrous photos so will be subject to her copyright if you wanted to publish it.
Mike
 
Thanks for the warning Mike but nah, I won't be using it for the reasons outlined to Len as well as the copyright issue. So I'm still looking for a picture of a burnt out 60s BCT bus with a platform and rear stairs to fit the storyline.
 
Oisin said:
Thanks for the warning Mike but nah, I won't be using it for the reasons outlined to Len as well as the copyright issue. So I'm still looking for a picture of a burnt out 60s BCT bus with a platform and rear stairs to fit the storyline.
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I supect that you may have to "photoshop" a photo that is make it look like it was burnt out here are a few scrap buses none burnt out and the rear entrance stuff is coventry but it may help (or not)
https://my.bus.photos.fotopic.net/c1009119.html
 
Thanks Di,
Might need a bit of "Photoshopping" :headhit: to get what I want but it's a strong contender.
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Di.Poppitt said:
Hi Paul, not sure if this is BCT, but it meets your other criterior:rolleyes:

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Di.Poppitt, was this the bus that was in a scrapyard just outside of Uttoxeter for years. I used to drive coaches to Alton Towers and saw one like it buried under a load of scrap every time I went past there. The one in your picture looks the same and would be originally from London Transport, with a low roof and the upper deck seats in rows of four with a sunken gangway on the offside. (Was known in London as an RLH type - (AEC) Regent Low Height)
Mike
 
Di.Poppitt said:
Hi Paul, not sure if this is BCT, but it meets your other criterior:rolleyes:

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No. it's not BCT, it's a London Transport RLH class 'lowheight' decker of the early 50s - in fact the last one of the batch, RLH 76 (reg no MXX 276) which after 14 years 'Capital' service was sold in 1966 to Elkes Biscuits, of Uttoxeter as a staff bus. When they finished with it another seven years later, it went to a nearby scrapyard where it languished, often buried by scrap cars, until the yard was cleared in 2008 (when this photo was taken). Its body was dismantled for spare parts and the chassis is now with a preservationist "somewhere in Britain".
 
hi paul..my son has lots of books re buses..i know absolulely nothing about them but i presume you want a pic of the birmingham ones...just been flicking through and there are some cracking pics of burnt out and scraped ones..one is of 2 stls found in brussels in the mid 50s and was being used as sheds by workers...another one is on a prewar rt56 burnt out date 1969 location redhill surrey...can you confirm that you are searching for ones actually taken in birmingham and i will know what i am looking for when i go through his other books...

lyn:)
 
Strewth! seems I've opened up a right can of worms here.
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Knowing nothing about buses, it amazes me how you folks can glean so much information from that shot! Was WMPT around as far back as 1953?

Astoness, as the attached of it in Newhall Street is the best I've come up with so far, I reckon I'll have to take you up on your offer. What I'm looking for is a burnt out bus that would have been in service with Birmingham City Transport in the mid 60s. It has to have a rear entrance and open platform.
 
so paul..it would not matter if the pic was not taken actually in brum so long as it served the city....but of course a brum pic would be better for you...ok then i have to get ready soon for the soho house trip but will ask my son to sort out all his bus books and go though them for you tonight

always happy to help even though i dont know a thing about the subject...:D

lyn
 
You've got it Lyn.
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In fact I s'pose if it's burnt out, so long as none of the experts on here study it, it won't necessarily have to be a Brum bus. I can mess with it a bit to look the part.
Thanks for your help.
 
It's amazing what you learn.:)

Mike, I didn't know if it was the bus in Utoxeter. I had it in my picture file, possibly taken form this forum at some point.But you were spot on as Lloyd cofirms:rolleyes:
 
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Paul when I first joined the forum someone posted an over turned bus on Aston Cross I think will go look for it but it may have been removed. Jean.
 
I thought I'd got one somewhere. Not Birmingham, but Belfast, during the "troubles".
I think it's a Leyland, with local (to them) body by Harkness.
Sorry don't know the taker of the picture, possibly one of the news agencies.

Incidentally, if in those times a newish bus was captured for use as a road-block, an Inspector would go and negotiate it's exchange for an old one, "So you'll have something decent to travel on tomorrow"!
 
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