{"id":1568,"date":"2024-12-28T16:51:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T16:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/b\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2024-12-28T16:51:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T16:51:24","slug":"british-commercial-vehicle-museum-leyland-17th-october-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/b\/2024\/12\/british-commercial-vehicle-museum-leyland-17th-october-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"British Commercial Vehicle Museum, Leyland, 17th October 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Another visit to the BCVM at Leyland. Today a different coach has appeared. A Leyland Beadle sporting East Kent livery, registration FFN446, Maidstone in the old registration code. Built in 1951.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It looks in good condition and the opening windscreens are an early form of air conditioning. It might be wrong but the steering wheel looks more central than you’d expect. As the driver has a full width area this coach must be front engined and perhaps it got hot in there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Leyland Tiger with Burlingham body is a long time exhibit and a very attractive example. JRN29, Preston registration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inside the Tiger, a lovely coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ERF of Sandbach, Cheshire, truck. A lot of interesting design shapes, probably expensive to build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first Foden truck. There’s an interesting board telling the history of Foden and its family offshoot ERF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Commer truck. Rootes Group. An attractive example in H Hunter, Corn Merchant of Tarleton livery. Presumably owned by Huntapac who’ve transported fresh food produce from West Lancashire for around 90years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A close up of the Commer radiator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leyland Hippo, 1935.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The famous A badged radiator of Atkinson’s Vehicles, Winery Lane, Walton Le Dale. There’s a great write up about Atkinson’s on the Irish Transport Museum webpage referenced at the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Albion Motors of Glasgow radiator. Like most British manufacturers they were taken over in a series of mergers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our own webpage on the BCVM, British Commercial Vehicle Museum https:\/\/www.britishcommercialvehiclemuseum.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The British Commercial Vehicle Museum website: https:\/\/www.britishcommercialvehiclemuseum.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Transport Museum of Ireland website Atkinson write up link:
https:\/\/www.nationaltransportmuseum.org\/cv008.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our visit to the BCVM in 2022 http:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/b\/2023\/01\/british-commercial-vehicle-museum-october-2022\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our trip from Preston to the BCVM by bus and train. https:\/\/www.britishcommercialvehiclemuseum.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another visit to the BCVM at Leyland. Today a different coach has appeared. A Leyland Beadle sporting East Kent livery, registration FFN446, Maidstone in the old registration code. Built in 1951. It looks in good condition and the opening windscreens … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[105,106,32,27,104,103,28],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industrial","category-uncategorized","tag-albion","tag-atkinson-vehicles","tag-bcvm","tag-british-commercial-vehicle-museum","tag-commer","tag-erf","tag-leyland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}