Play For Today: Buses

(BBC drama, 1980)

Show number 219 in the long-running 'Play for Today' strand, this play revolved around regulation of the bus industry in the early 1930s and featured the struggle of one man companies against Yorkshire Traction. “An open staircase TD1 (Wigan I think was used in a maroon livery) and the Lincolnshire Preservation Group Lion PLSC (in Green livery).. both sporting Yorkshire Traction Fleetnames.” (thanks Trev).
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Taking part were a number of period vehicles.
VK5401, a 1931 Dodge UF30 with Robson body:
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WH1553, a 1929 all-Leyland TD1 recorded as new as Bolton 54, but here it carries fleetnumber 53:
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CJ5052, a 1922 Maxwell 25cwt charabanc:
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RA3829, a 1927 Albion SpPB24:
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BE6962, a Ford van used for carrying passengers:
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KW474, a 1929 all-Leyland Lion PLSC1/Leyland acquired by West Yorkshire from Blythe and Berwick of Bradford:
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Seen in photographs are:
WW4273, a 1928 Tilling Stevens B10A/Tilling new to West Yorkshire:
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UM8861, a 1927 ADC416/Strachan acquired by West Yorkshire from Warburton Bus Service:
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I believe this is WW9051, a 1929 West Yorkshire Leyland Tiger TS1 running a service from Harrogate to London, seen before it was rebodied in 1936:
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BM7647, a Commer charabanc:
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WW7126, a 1929 Tilling-Stevens B10A2:
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