AEC Regent II with Massey L27/28R body, delivered in 1946.
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SCT '61 Southend Corporation Bus Fleet Details 236-241 |
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AEC Regent II with Massey L27/28R body, delivered in 1946.
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Daimler CVA6 with Massey L53R body, built 1948.
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Southend's first new Massey bodies were delivered in September 1946 on three AEC Regent II chassis, 236-8. They were followed eighteen months later by a further three, this time on Daimler CVA6 chassis, 239-41 (the Daimler CW - W for wartime having been replaced by the CV - V for Victory). They had the inevitable lowbridge top deck, the Regents seating 55 and the Daimlers 2 less.
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237 in the High Street in the early 1950s with the original blind layout | 
236 seen here in front of Victoria Station in the mid 1950s ... |
... and 240 in the same place around the same time |
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Like many buses of the early post-war years they had short lives, being sold after only 12 years service - at the time that they were built good quality timber was almost unobtainable, with the result that the body framing often deteriorated far sooner than should have been the case. 236-8 went for scrap in 1958 followed by 239-241 in 1959.
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Many thanks to Richard Delahoy for his kind permission to include extracts from his book in this page and also to Ian Banks for supplying some of the pictures. |
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