If you would like to suggest a site of interest I shall be pleased to hear from you. I would also appreciate being advised of non-functioning links.
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The PRV Design Group is a nostalgic site exclusively for ex-employees of the Drawing Office at Park Royal Vehicles. |
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This site is an excellent resource for ascertaining the marque associated with specific body numbers from a variety of coachbuilders. This link selects the Park Royal list although other coachbuilders may be accessed from the home page at www.buslistsontheweb.co.uk. |
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This
website belies its name. It's not just "Old Bus Photos", it is a
wealth of information on British buses referenced by chassis manufacturer,
coachbuilder and operator. |
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The Helston Railway Diesel Group (HRDG) has acquired two of the four remaining Park Royal class 103 vehicles, built in 1957 by Park Royal on behalf of British Railways. |
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Michael Neal's pages dedicated to Park Royal Vehicles. |
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PRV were one of five firms given contracts to build railbuses for delivery in '58. This site has a detailed account of the PRV railbuses and of the PRV built Class 103 Railcoaches. |
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This website, by Neil Gow, is dedicated to buses built by the Associated Equipment Company Ltd, and later by British Leyland Motor Corporation under the AEC marque. |
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The official society for the AEC Company; the one time manufacturer of vehicle chassis upon which PRV and other coachbuilders constructed their bodywork. |
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A site, maintained by Phil Wilson, dedicated to the preservation and operation of Routemasters. |
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Bus, coach, tram, trolleybus and transit weblinks worldwide . |
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HBH Associated (i.e. Caravans & Shooting Brakes) |
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The aim of the Historic Caravan Club is to promote the preservation and use of Pre-1961 caravans. The club hopes to give an increased awareness of this important part of motoring and social history and educate future generations in the preservation of caravans. |
A Club for the Preservation of all Rileys from 1946-1955. |
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A site dedicated to the restoration & preservation of timber framed shooting brakes, estate cars and station wagons. |
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Military |
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During WW2 Park Royal Coachworks (PRV after 1946), as part of the London Aircraft Production Group (LAPG), built the outer wings, engine cowlings and nacelles for the Halifax bomber designed by Handley Page. This site is about Handley Page and may be of interest. |
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During WW2 Park Royal Coachworks (PRV after 1946), manufactured military vehicles and this site is a comprehensive online resource for modelers and enthusiasts of armoured cars and wheeled fighting vehicles that contains some references to Park Royal products. |
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Other Vehicles |
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The London Vintage Taxi Association is a multi-marque club devoted to the preservation of British taxicabs. Both archive material and forthcoming events from the LVTA are available on this website. |
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Transport Sites (Personal) |
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FRM 1. The experimental front entrance, rear engine routemaster. Pictures by John King. |
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Brimming with pictures and detail, Ian Smith's BUS-STOP is an outsider's view of London Transport buses, mainly in the 1930-1980 era. |
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Michael Neal's comprehensive look at the buses of south-west Norway. |
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The home of classic buses and coaches on the net. This site is all about nostalgia for British passenger transport vehicles from the 1930s to the 1960s, with an unashamed bias towards 'halfcabs'. Dick Gilbert's excellent & informative site is a 'must visit'. |
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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Photo Archive from the 1960s and earlier. |
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Preservation Groups & Other Societies |
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The Provincial Society was formed as an historic society for people with an interest in the operations, and vehicles of the former: Provincial Bus companies operating in the Hampshire & Dorset areas. There is much memorabilia on the site and many preserved vehicles. |
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The Trusts's vision is of a permanent museum in the West Country, devoted to the history of public and commercial road transport in the region |
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Lincolnshire Vintage Vehicle Society (incorporating the Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum) |
The objects of the Society are to preserve, restore and operate historic road transport vehicles; Buses & Coaches, Commercial vehicles, motor cycles and cars. |
The Devon General Omnibus Trust is a registered charity established in 2013 to support and promote the rescue, restoration, preservation and operation of historic vehicles that once carried the livery of the DEVON GENERAL OMNIBUS & TOURING CO. LTD. |
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Transport History |
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"Taking
You On A Journey Through Our Transport Past" compiled by Peter Gould: |
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Transport Museums |
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The official site of the London Transport Museum. |
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Where some PRV timber models are apparently preserved. |
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The official website of the SVBM. |
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What happened to all those buses? Nearly all were scrapped when their service days were over but a few managed to escape the breaker's blowtorch and some can be seen at Cobham Bus Museum, home of the London Bus Preservation Trust (LBPT), a registered charity. |
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Routemaster Maintenance |
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Graham Walker's site where you can browse and buy specialist items essential for everyone who runs, maintains or repairs London's most famous Red Double-Decker - and for everyone who is simply fascinated with what goes on under the bonnet! |
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Videos |
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Below
is a selection of nostalgic videos on various public sites that contain
images of all manner of vehicles. |
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The Aldenham Works was the main London Transport Bus overhaul works - (YouTube). |
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A drive through Hammersmith & Kensington in the 1950's - (YouTube). |
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| Memories of Trams, Buses & Trolleybuses (Note - Internal Link) |
I'm pleased to present a wonderful 9mm Cine Film made during the 1960’s by Eric Jones (a member of the PRVdesign Group) capturing nostalgic scenes of trams, buses & trolleybuses; a must for all die-hard bus transport enthusiasts. |
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Other |
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Below
is a selection of other sites that may be of interest to readers. |
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| Rural Roads |
This website has been set up to help planners and managers of rural road networks in developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, to ask the many questions which should be asked in planning a program, to better appreciate why they should be posed, and provide access to the growing body of knowledge about rural transport systems now available on the Internet. |
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The INTERNET ARCHIVE is a non-profit organisation preserving a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Based in San Francisco, its mission is to provide "Universal Access to All Knowledge" (read about the archive here). Links
to the archived versions of websites that are no longer available but are
determined to be of interest to visitors to this website may be found
here. All archived pages will have a header showing the Internet
Archive's "WayBack Machine", which is the system the archive
uses to capture the Internet pages, along with details of the capture date(s)
etc..
Suggestions
for inclusion here are welcome. |
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First a note about Peter Gould's old site at "www.petergould.co.uk": Peter Gould relinquished this domain but the domain has since been acquired by another individual who, without Peter’s permission, has reloaded Peter's original copyrighted material back onto the Internet using the original domain. Click
here for Peter Gould's new site |
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Histories and Fleet Details of Local Bus & Coach Undertakings |
This is an excellent compendium of Transport History. On this site you will find General Histories, Operator Fleet Histories, Manufacturer Histories and Biographies of Transport Pioneers. |
| Birch Brothers History 1899-1971 |
The history of Birch Brothers from 1899 to 1971. An excellent article about Birch Brothers (Taxi and Coach Operators) who had the vision of an all new diesel taxi (the one that my father designed). Birch Brothers also operated the PRV Royalist coach displayed on this site. |
| Birch Brothers Bus Fleet List |
Birch Brothers Bus Fleet List 1904-1971 |
The history of Salford Corporation. |
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Salford Corporation Bus Fleet List 1920-1969 |
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The above are all from Peter Gould's archived website |
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The history of Lancashire United Transport. |
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