SCT '61 Southend Corporation Trolleybus Fleet Details 130-138 |
130-138
Sunbeam W with Park Royal or Brush (130) utility H30/26R body, new in 1945/1946
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At the end of the war Southend were able to take delivery of nine Sunbeam W's, 130-8 (BHJ 827-9, 898-903). The 56 seat highbridge bodies, by Brush (130) and Park Royal (131-8) were to relaxed utility standards.
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138 heads north across Victoria Circus towards Victoria Avenue. Click on the photo for a larger picture. |
The newest trolleybuses in the fleet, 130-8 were all withdrawn towards the end of 1953 and sold to Doncaster Corporation for £400 each. Given fleet numbers 384-392, they operated with the original utility bodies until being rebodied by Roe in 1957-9. The Roe bodies were in turn transferred to new Daimler CV bus chassis in 1961/2 as the Doncaster trolleybus system was progressively rundown; it finally closed in December 1963.
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Two views taken when in service with Doncaster, the first of BHJ828 with its original Park Royal body ... | ... And the second of BHJ829 with its new Roe body. |
Many thanks to Richard Delahoy for his kind permission to include extracts from his book in this page and to John Law for the two Doncaster photos. |
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