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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well I don't remember them personally, so it will have to be museum pics again

One of my favs. If only this tram could talk, it was there at the start of GCT.



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Saw this picture over on Pie & Bovril, any idea the corporation that owned it ?

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The bus is a Bristol Lodekka FLF, but not too sure which operator. Quite a few around the UK had these colours.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Been meaning to get a photo of this for ages. One of my neighbours has a shed made out of what looks like old bus body parts.

Bus front doors rain gutter above the rather posh (for a shed) door.


It's all aluminium panels, and underneath the darker layer of paint is what looks like faded Verona (GGPTE) Green.


I really should talk to my neighbours more
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

One for your collection Ken

Found beside a Daily Record from 1965
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wee slice of history  
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I remember paying that much on the bus
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PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 4:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Big up to Scary for sending me that ticket  
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PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

glasgowken wrote:
Big up to Scary for sending me that ticket  


Aw shucks, cheers Kenny
It`s gone to a good home, it would have got hoovered up or lost in my house
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Many moons ago I was told that Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh (Charles Rennie's mrs) designed some of the Glasgow Corporation Tramways long service badges.
I'm trying to find some written evidence of this, has anyone here seen it noted in a biography or similar ?

Any info would be appreciated, ta  
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