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| Hits (this week): | 449 |
| Hits (this month): | 449 |
| Hits (this year): | 8855 |
| Hits (all-time): | 91296 |
| Collections: | 23 |
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| 47 years of bus photography
47 years of coach photography
SHIPPING IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND AND EUROPE
Western National, Southern National and Royal Blue
Bristol Omnibus and Badgerline
Back end of a bus
National Express
Transport postcards of the 20th Century
Crosville
Hants & Dorset / Wilts & Dorset
Arriva Southern Counties in Kent, Medway and Essex
Britain's PTE fleets
Cyprus and Malta Buses
Scottish buses and coaches
Tidal Medway
Midland Red & Carlyle Works
THE WORST RAIL PICS EVER
Kent bus scene
Corporation bus fleets of England
London's Buses
National Bus Company (NBC) in England
Three Counties buses - Gloshire, Worcs and Herefordshire
Bus, coach and transport ephemera (stops, stations, logos etc)
Corporation bus fleets of South Wales
Kings Ferry, Gillingham
Road vehicles
Planes - even worse collection than my trains
Flowers and trees, plants, animals and birds
Egyptian Buses and Coaches
Egyptian Holiday, 2006
Watkins - home and away
People and Places
Black & White Motorways and National Travel (South West)
City of Oxford, South Midland and Oxford Espress
Continental bus and coach operations
Workingarea
First Group Buses
Stagecoach Across the UK
St George's, HMS Pembroke - Royal Navy memorials
Bus Gallery
Corfu's bus and coach transport, 2008
National Express West Midlands
Lauren is here
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Red and White was started in the wake of the First World War, and became one of the most influential independent bus operators in the country. Its territory stretched from the Cotswolds to mid and West Wales.
When the Red and White Group was bought out in 1948 to become part of the State-owned Tilling Group, it marked the end of Albion and guy orders, and the delivery of standard Bristols. But there was still plenty of interest.
In the National Bus Company days it was merged with its erstwhile rival, Western Welsh, to become National welsh, but collapsed after privatisation. Bits and pieces have been picked up here and there, but the days of the great Gloucestershire-based bus company are now just a memory.
[Apropos Gloucestershire, I am grateful to a Risca viewer and Red & White afficionado for pointing out that the head office of the company was at Chepstow, Monmouthshire (Gwent). However the founding Watts family were from Lydney, on the opposite bank of the Wye. And as a Gloucestershire lad, I claim the company for England, Harry and St George!] |
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Red & White used a unique alpha-numeric system to identify vehicles. Letters identified the type (L: Lodekka; U: Undefloor-engined etc; C: Coach; DS: Dual purpose, etc). deliveries within the type were then divided down into a simple order (starting at one), with the final two figures of the year being added after a full stop at the end. Complicated? - you bet!
So I've simplified it for fotopic's overworked computers.
I have adopted a simplified system in square brackets so that the fotopic computers can put the buses and coaches in delivery order. |
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