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After declaring earlier that I had taken just one picture of a Huddersfield bus (Corporation PD3A/2 No.109) I belatedly recalled that I had taken one other, that of 1964 Daimler CVG6LX/30 No.114 with Roe H39/31F body, DCX114B of the JOC fleet.
Apologies for the high contrast of this picture. I photographed this bus in the early summer of 1965 between Elland and Halifax, on a section of road that I recall vividly as being decidedly bumpy. On my very first outing to Huddersfield behind the wheel of a PD2 on route 43 I suddenly hit this patch at speed - flat out at 36 mph was fast for a Halifax PD2 - whereupon the thing seemed to take off, making subsequent profuse apologies to the conductor absolutely obligatory. That was learning the road detail the hard way. I know that our Halifax expert, John S, can identify this location accurately, but a present day glimpse of the area on Google Earth reveals a swath of brutalist roadworks that have decimated all before them.
These were superb buses, and had Roderick MacKenzie not departed for Scotland yielding his Halifax managerial post to Leyland besotted Richard Le Fevre, the Halifax fleet would surely have had an allocation of these instead of its Leyland/MCW fare.

Photo taken by Roger Cox, early summer 1965, between Elland and Halifax

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