SCT '61 Photo Index
Daimler CD
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1. CCP605 ... Halifax 85, CCP605, one of six Daimler CD650s with East Lancs H30/26R bodies new in 1951 seen in the centre of Halifax.
Photo taken Sun 9 Sep 1956, Commercial Street, Halifax
2. MWU750 ... Rossie Motors, Rossington ran this Daimler CD650 with a Burlingham H30/26R body registered MWU750 which is seen at Glasgow Paddocks Bus Station in Doncaster.
Photo taken Fri 2 Jun 1961, Glasgow Paddocks Bus Station, Doncaster
3. PRA387 ... PRA387, a Daimler CD650 new to Blue Bus Services Willington in 1951. The gentleman on the right is Percy Tailby one of owners of Blue Bus.
Photo taken Wed 28 Mar 1951, Daimler Works, Radford
4. PRA387 ... Blue Bus Services of Willington, PRA387, one of their fleet of rare Daimler CD650s fitted with Willowbrook bodies, built in 1952.
Photo taken 1968, Burton
5. SRB424 ... Their second pair of Daimler CD650s with Willowbrook L27/28RD bodies arrived with Tailby & George (t/a Blue Bus Services), Willington in 1953 with DR15, SRB424, numerically the first of the pair, being new in April, with DR16 having arrived in February.
Photo taken Sun 14 Jul 1963, Garage
6. SRB424 ... Blue Bus Services (Tailby & George) were famous for operating four of the rare Daimler CD650's, each with a Willowbrook lowbridge body, PRA387/8 new in 1951 and SRB424/5 new in 1953 with fleet numbers DR13-16 respectively. SRB424, dating from 1953, makes a speedy departure from an eerily quiet Derby bus station.
Photo taken 1966, Derby Bus Station