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WHC Motor Bus No.56 - 1964

What we know about this image :

Corporation bus No.56 (EF *%%*), was the first of nine double-deck buses with a rear entrance and was exhibited at the Commercial Motor Transport Exhibition in London in November 1948. Non-standard features comprised gold lining, red mudguards and a chromium-plated radiator shell, although by 1964 when this photograph was taken in Church Square, only the last-mentioned survived.

Date (of image) : 1964

Donor : Mr. John Watson

Creator : unknown

Part of the "D.D. Kirk" collection

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