BRISTOL DOUBLE DECK BUSES
IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE
District 75
FLFs
K6s
K5Ws
LDs
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| 513 OHU - with the Gloucester City fleet number G7063 attached to its 30' long body - prepares to leave Kings Square with service "B" to Tuffley Estate. Image supplied by Bristol Vintage Bus Group | ***** | |
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| BHU 18 C - carrying the Gloucester fleet number G7169 at the entrance to London Road depot with a Schools service.Image supplied by Bristol Vintage Bus Group | ||
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| This C.W. Routh picture dated 17 February 1962 shows a Bristol FSF - the shorter 27' bodied cousin of the FLF. With 702 JHY on the licence plate and a Gloucester fleet identity of GL 6005, it is at Matson terminus with the then Number 6 service to Oxstalls Drive. Particularly evocative is the advertisement for Fletchers Sports and Games. This shop was located next to the Post Office on the Oxbode side of Kings Square and survived into the 1970s. It was unusual not only in having an "island" glass display case in the middle of its entrance but also for its wide range of products - shotguns and ( I remember hearing ) chemicals for home experimentation downstairs and model trains and Airfix kits upstairs! | ||
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| Also on the Number 6 service to Matson is K6A HHY 590, fleet number 3788. Pictured in Kings Square, this 1945 vintage chassis had been delivered with a utility body as L3646 but in July 1955 received this body from G-type no 3048 that had received the body new in 1949. These bodies didn't fit properly on a K chassis as the engine was mounted higher. This resulted in the whole body sloping backwards. These bodies also had horizontal bottoms to the windscreen whereas bodies on K-types normally sloped This vehicle was based at Gloucester until May 1962 when it moved to Bristol until withdrawal in March 1965 | ||
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| The different windscreen shape can be seen on this 1948 vintage K6A registered as LAE 28 and numbered within the Bristol County Fleet as 3721. Its Chassis number was 66040 and is seen here with a Gloucester and Cheltenham service before withdrawal in May 1961. | ||
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| The K6B variant is illustrated by LHY 943 ( fleet number 3779) fitted - like many Gloucester buses of the time with an Eastern Counties body. The Lowestoft coachbuilders gave this one the number 3845 shortly before introduction in 1950. It was transferred to various Bristol garages in 1962 before withdrawal in April 1966. Here it is seen in Kings Square on the 49 Cheltenham, Longlevens and Hare & Hounds service - a route that now goes right through to Cheltenham as the Number 94. Incidentally, part of E. Fletchers emporium - as advertised on 702 JHY above - can be seen in the background. | ||
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| Bristol K6B fleetmate 3780 - registration number LHY 944 - waits to leave Gloucester King's Square with the number 54 service to Painswick. | ||
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| SHW 347 - numbered 8177 in the Bristol Omnibus fleet - waits in Gloucester King's Square to form the 510 service to Coney Hill Parade. Introduced in the early 1950s, it had a 60 seat Eastern Counties body on its Bristol chassis. | ||
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| 78 seat THW 736 - Gloucester fleet number GL8246 -stands in Gloucester King's Square with a number 6 service to Matson. As in the picture of SHW 347 above, the Bon Marche ( now Debenhams ) is visible in the background while the former Regal cinema ( now a Wetherspoons pub ) is to the right. | ||
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| 961 EHW - GL8507 - waits in Gloucester King's Square for a driver to take out the 50B service to York Road. | ||
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