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Bristol Lodekkas.

Discussie in 'Everything Else Heritage' gestart door 45669, 10 okt 2021.

  1. 45669

    45669 Part of the furniture

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    The family holiday in August, 1995 was to the Isle of Wight where I was delighted to see some half cab Bristol Lodekka open toppers at The Needles. Luckily, I had my video camera with me; it was in the days of VHS which I have since digitalised so the quality is not up to the standards of today’s equipment, but at least it’s a record of these once commonplace 1950s vintage buses. Hope you approve:



    TTFN,

    Ron.
     
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    Footbridge, 30854, burnham-t en 5 anderen vinden dit leuk.
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    30854 Resident of Nat Pres

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    I've very fond memories of these old classics, operating in a very fetching ivory livery, complete with armorial crest, on Bristol's sometime route 103 (Uphill=>Weston-super-Mare=>Worle). This shot of one is a lot more recent, but records indicate at least 4 of the 8 'convertibles' from my long lost youth survive to this day.

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    There was an (even) older Bristol open topper (narrower body and radiator grille) which put in the odd appearance on that route, but I've been unable to identify it exactly.
     
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  3. Thompson1706

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    The real Crosville company in North Wales also had some.

    Bob.
     
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    Bristol KSW similar to this Eastern National one in Southend?
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