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A pic of SKB 173 . A Liverpool Corpy Leyland Royal Tiger with Crossley bodywork .
These were purchased for Private Hire and for Liverpools joint service with Birkenhead corpy on the Night Mersey tunnel service.
Pic 2 Sister vehicle SKB 172 as the MPTE Traveller Ticket bus in a nice period 70s shot
Locations please!
Photos MTT collection/G S O'Brien
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Rob
Hi Rob,
Have a family friend that used to live in Childwall and sent him a copy of the bus/coach outside Childwall Abbey. He took exactly the same picture on that day, but from a slightly different angle and has given me some more information - hope this is something new to you:
On October 1st 1952, LCPT took over from BEA responibility for providing the City Centre-Speke Airport Services. With this came 4x Bedford Duple OB coaches, new in 1949-50, with standard Duple 'Vista' bodies. They were the only eptrol engined vehiciles to be operated by LCPT for several years and were repainted in 1954 from airline blue to green with cream roofs and numbered B1-4. Number B1 had the standard 29 seat layout for the Vista but the other 3 had more luxurious seating, a row being omitted so that the seating was reduced to 25. All were withdrawn by 1961 being replaced by Leyland Royal Tiger coaches.
There were 6 Layland coaches, with Crossley framed bodies finished at Edge Lane, entering service (after severe manufacturing delays) in 1955-6. 4 were completed as duel entrance 40 seaters for OMO experiments on routes 66,77 and 88 and rebuilt in 1960 for the airport service. They were withdrawn in 1973-4 after transfer to the Lime Street - Landing Stage service. The other 2, SL175-6, had front entrances and fixed indicators showing PRIVATE and were used only for private hire work and on the Mersey Tunnel Service.
After the formation of the PTE, SL175-6 were transferred to Wirral in blue livery and re-numbered 98-97 in the ex-Birkenhead series. They operated as one-man buses until withdrawn in 1972 after which 98 became a ticket sales office in Liverpool.
The photo outside Childwall Abbey shows SL176 awaiting a wedding party at Childwall Abbey in 1959.
Interesting to note that both WG Marks and W M Hall, LCPT General Managers, lived for many years at the hotel.
Cadfael.
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