This page is dedicated to PRV or Roe products initially destined for East Yorkshire Motor Services; thus it is a compilation of products found elsewhere on this website.
Hall Lewis (Hall Lewis was the forunner of Park Royal Coachworks/Vehicles.)
This Hall Lewis C25R bodied Leyland TS2
(60634-7/9) was one of a batch of ten delivered March & April 1929
to East Yorkshire. They were numbered 120-9, KH 7914-23, but 124/6/7 & 9 were
not used and passed to Eastern Counties. They covered express service routes
including Scarborough to London. Information
supplied by James Type compiled from Terry Stapley & James Fairchild (Transport
Yorkshire Preservation Group). Further information
from John Bennett.
Pictured outside the premises of Charles H Roe in Crossgates, Leeds this 1957
Leyland Tiger Cub (PSUC/1), Registration Number VKH 668, with attractive Roe
B39F body. This was first of 6 such buses delivered to East Yorkshire
Motor Services Limited, of Hull. (Information courtesy of Roger Hardy and Mike
Averill.)
Registration Number 9727AT built
in May 1961 (Body Nos. B47027-30); for East Yorkshire.
Registration Number 3754RH built
in Feb 1963 (Body Nos. B48983-95); for East Yorkshire.
Registration Number 9766RH Built in June 1964 (Body Nos. B49901-10); for East
Yorkshire.
Registration Number CKH786C Built
in November 1964 (Body Nos. B52303-16); for East Yorkshire.
Registration Number GAT819D Built
in March 1966 (Body Nos. B53787-96); for East Yorkshire.
Seen best in this image, but also in Renown's & Bridgemasters above and the
first Fleetline below, is the rather distinctive East Yorkshire moquette.
I have been asked about the supplier of this moquette, and given that there
appears to be little mention of it elsewhere on the Internet I shall redress
that here. John Darwent kindly researched this, and I can confirm that
Holdsworth was almost certainly the supplier. Now part of the Camira
Group, Holdsworth, that began in 1822, has, almost since its inception, been a
major force in furnishing public transport.
Registration Number MAT833F Built
December 1967 (Body Nos. B55407-18); for East Yorkshire.
Registration Number RAT866G Built
April 1969 (Body Nos. B56715-21); for East Yorkshire.
John Kaye comments that these are
Roe photographs (R881 in the lower right corner of the first) and that they bear
a strong resemblance to the interior of VKH 674 and could possibly be the
interior of one of the batch of Leylands for East Yorkshire (VKH 668-673). Can you
add to this?
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No I'm not advertising a drinking
establishment; I came across this intriguing photo in Don Matthews
collection. It is of a Leyland Titan TD5 with an ECW body, modified to fit
through an archway in Beverley, Yorkshire, known locally as the Beverley Bar.
Read about it here:
https://beverleyfm.com/history/beverley-history-the-bar-buses/
http://www.castlesfortsbattles.co.uk/yorkshire/beverley_north_bar.html
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/the_beverley_bar_streetview
Someone has evidently enhanced the shape of the roof by sketching around the
image, hardly noticeable in the small original print but made obvious by the
scanner. No doubt supplied to PRV to show the requirements for busses to
be used on this route.
See bus pictures here:
https://www.google.com/beverley+bar+bus
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