For part 1 see blog posted 24/12/2020, part 2 blog posted 25/12/2020, part 3 blog posted 26/12/2020, part 4 posted 27/12/2020, part 5 posted 28/12/2020, part 6 posted 29/12/2020
On the 12th. of May 2013. ‘First South Yorkshire’ (FSY) organised a bus event to mark 100 years since the introduction of the motor bus in Sheffield.
It was held at ‘FSYs Olive Grove garage which is adjacent to the ‘Midland Main Line’ about half a mile to the South of Sheffield’s railway station.
A stones throw from the garage is the site of what was Queens Road tram depot where many of Sheffields trams were built and housed.
What is now the bus parking area at Olive Grove for many years was home to ‘Sheffield United Tours’ fleet of luxury coaches which eventually passed to ‘National Travel East’.
A part of Sheffield then that is steeped in the city’s transport history.
In support of ‘FSY’ sterling efforts in putting on the show, a good selection of preserved buses attended.
LDB 796 ‘North Western Road Car Co’ No. 796. Leyland Tiger Cub / Willowbrook
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New in 1960.
GAT 180D ‘KINGSTON UPON HULL CORPORATION TRANSPORT’ No.180. Leyland Panther / Roe
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
PJX 35 ‘Halifax Corporation Transport’. Leyland L1 Leopard / Weymann
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New 1962.
Currently resident at ‘Dewsbury Bus Museum’.
YPT 796 ‘E.W. Wilson (Economic Bus Services of Whitburn, Sunderland)’. AEC Reliance / Roe Dalesman
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New in 1958.
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