Strathclyder
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I've had several ideas rattling around in my head for a new thread in this sub-section of the fourm for the last couple of weeks, and I think it's time I throw the biggest one of them out the door now.
A bus type that has had more column inches dedicated to it than most, the Guy Wulfrunian is one of those types that fits snugly into the 'blunderbus' category. It's flaws are well-documented across the web and in print but I thought, much in the same vein as my North British Type 2 thread over in Railway History & Nostalgia, this forum was somewhat overdue a thread dedicated to perhaps the most maligned bus type to ever see the light of day. Not like that stops it from being a fascinating type, much in the same vein as the NBL Type 2s.
Linked below are two colour photographs of West Riding Wulfrunians from The Transport Library (both copyright of Geoffrey Morant), showing two of the main liveries the type carried during their time there (each being it's own form of route branding I beileve); the red/cream example (WHL 970) being one of the only 2 intact survivors in preservation. And as a bonus, a YT vid (from, appropriately enough, the Guy Wulfrunian channel) showing the other survivor (UCX 275/995; new as County Motors of Lepton No. 99) in action back in 2013.
Over to the rest of you; this should make for a interesting (or short-lived lol) thread.
A bus type that has had more column inches dedicated to it than most, the Guy Wulfrunian is one of those types that fits snugly into the 'blunderbus' category. It's flaws are well-documented across the web and in print but I thought, much in the same vein as my North British Type 2 thread over in Railway History & Nostalgia, this forum was somewhat overdue a thread dedicated to perhaps the most maligned bus type to ever see the light of day. Not like that stops it from being a fascinating type, much in the same vein as the NBL Type 2s.
Linked below are two colour photographs of West Riding Wulfrunians from The Transport Library (both copyright of Geoffrey Morant), showing two of the main liveries the type carried during their time there (each being it's own form of route branding I beileve); the red/cream example (WHL 970) being one of the only 2 intact survivors in preservation. And as a bonus, a YT vid (from, appropriately enough, the Guy Wulfrunian channel) showing the other survivor (UCX 275/995; new as County Motors of Lepton No. 99) in action back in 2013.
West Riding Guy Wulfrunian 942 VHL942 in 1967 - Apr 67 - Geoffrey Morant
thetransportlibrary.co.uk
West Riding Guy Wulfrunian 970 WHL970 in Undated - Geoffrey Morant
thetransportlibrary.co.uk
Over to the rest of you; this should make for a interesting (or short-lived lol) thread.
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