NEH 942 - The Big Bus Puzzle

[Carnut]

#7 - coachwork by Churchill?

Yes!!
Well done indeed woodinsight - 1 point for you.

[Carnut]

#24 - Leyland L2 with Weymann coachwork 1960

Partly correct.
It's a Leyland all right but it has a model name too, which I need.
Date is a little earlier than 1960.
But it is MCW (Metro-Cammell-Weymann) bodied, yes.
So there's 1 point for starters and I'll lock it for you for 24 hours to see if you can grab the other point too.

[woodinsight]

#30 - I believe this is a private vehicle (caravan) based on an AEC Regent chassis.
Not sure who built the body but I'll have a guess at Park Royal

[Carnut]

#30 - I believe this is a private vehicle (caravan) based on an AEC Regent chassis.
Not sure who built the body but I'll have a guess at Park Royal

It was indeed built for private use (as a huntin' and shootin' mobile caravan!) and it is of course an AEC, but not a Regent and the body is not by Park Royal.

[woodinsight]

#24 - Leyland L2 with Weymann coachwork 1960

Partly correct.
It's a Leyland all right but it has a model name too, which I need.
Date is a little earlier than 1960.
But it is MCW (Metro-Cammell-Weymann) bodied, yes.
So there's 1 point for starters and I'll lock it for you for 24 hours to see if you can grab the other point too.

My mistake - I should have added Leopard.
I think the year is 1959

[woodinsight]

#30 - I believe this is a private vehicle (caravan) based on an AEC Regent chassis.
Not sure who built the body but I'll have a guess at Park Royal

It was indeed built for private use (as a huntin' and shootin' mobile caravan!) and it is of course an AEC, but not a Regent and the body is not by Park Royal.

I guess the chassis should be AEC Regal
I'll have a another guess at the body shortly

[Carnut]

#24 - Leyland L2 with Weymann coachwork 1960

Partly correct.
It's a Leyland all right but it has a model name too, which I need.
Date is a little earlier than 1960.
But it is MCW (Metro-Cammell-Weymann) bodied, yes.
So there's 1 point for starters and I'll lock it for you for 24 hours to see if you can grab the other point too.

My mistake - I should have added Leopard.
I think the year is 1959

Sorry, but it's not a Leopard and neither is it from 1959!
Still locked for you until around midday-ish tomorrow though!

[Carnut]

#30 - I believe this is a private vehicle (caravan) based on an AEC Regent chassis.
Not sure who built the body but I'll have a guess at Park Royal

It was indeed built for private use (as a huntin' and shootin' mobile caravan!) and it is of course an AEC, but not a Regent and the body is not by Park Royal.

I guess the chassis should be AEC Regal
I'll have a another guess at the body shortly

Yes, it's an AEC Regal.  From when?

[woodinsight]

#30 - I believe this is a private vehicle (caravan) based on an AEC Regent chassis.
Not sure who built the body but I'll have a guess at Park Royal

It was indeed built for private use (as a huntin' and shootin' mobile caravan!) and it is of course an AEC, but not a Regent and the body is not by Park Royal.

I guess the chassis should be AEC Regal
I'll have a another guess at the body shortly

Yes, it's an AEC Regal.  From when?

I'll have a guess at 1930

[Carnut]

Yes, it's an AEC Regal.  From when?

I'll have a guess at 1930

1930's, but not 1930..

[woodinsight]

Yes, it's an AEC Regal.  From when?

I'll have a guess at 1930

1930's, but not 1930..

All my answers so far are off the top of my head because my passenger transport material is in store far away.
I'll sit down tonight and see if I can come up with the solutions.

[woodinsight]

#24 - Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC 1/2  date probably c.1955
#30 - AEC Regal - date c.1934?
#33 - body may be British Trailer (they specialised in articulated bus bodies at that time)

[Carnut]

#24 - Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC 1/2  date probably c.1955
#30 - AEC Regal - date c.1934?
#33 - body may be British Trailer (they specialised in articulated bus bodies at that time)

Sorry woodinsight, but in the immortal words of Mrs Thatcher, "No, no, no"!
#24 is not a Tiger Cub but you're not far out with the date;
#30 is an AEC Regal as already established but again you're a year out with the date..
#33 is not British bodied!

[woodinsight]

#24 - Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC 1/2  date probably c.1955
#30 - AEC Regal - date c.1934?
#33 - body may be British Trailer (they specialised in articulated bus bodies at that time)

Sorry woodinsight, but in the immortal words of Mrs Thatcher, "No, no, no"!
#24 is not a Tiger Cub but you're not far out with the date;
#30 is an AEC Regal as already established but again you're a year out with the date..
#33 is not British bodied!

#24 - Royal Tiger Worldmaster? Date 1954?
#30 - date 1933?
#33 - Zion Coachworks, Bombay?

[Carnut]

No-No, Yes and No!

[woodinsight]

Okay thanks, I'll continue searching but I think others should also be trying too or have they given up?

[woodinsight]

Last try for the moment -
#24 - Leyland Olympian? which was introduced in 1953
#33 - Metsec?

[Carnut]

Last try for the moment -
#24 - Leyland Olympian? which was introduced in 1953
#33 - Metsec?

No, I'm afraid neither are correct.

[Amsterdam]

Bus 33 was entirely Indian make, with the Ashok Leyland of Madras manufacturing the tractor-engine, and Mahindra Owen of Poona building the bus trailer.

[woodinsight]

Perhaps #24 is a Leyland Tiger Panther?

[Carnut]

Bus 33 was entirely Indian make, with the Ashok Leyland of Madras manufacturing the tractor-engine, and Mahindra Owen of Poona building the bus trailer.

You are right about the tractor but Wendax already has 1 point for identifying that as an Ashok Leyland Comet.
You are also right that the body was built in India, but not by Mahindra Owen.

[Carnut]

Perhaps #24 is a Leyland Tiger Panther?

No animals involved in its name at all!

[Amsterdam]

Bus 33 was entirely Indian make, with the Ashok Leyland of Madras manufacturing the tractor-engine, and Mahindra Owen of Poona building the bus trailer.

You are right about the tractor but Wendax already has 1 point for identifying that as an Ashok Leyland Comet.
You are also right that the body was built in India, but not by Mahindra Owen.

Was 33 a special one-off build for BEST?
The BEST webside itself mentioned only ten articulated buses in their history where made for the BEST Undertaking, and only Mahindra Owen as the coachbuilder.

[Carnut]

Bus 33 was entirely Indian make, with the Ashok Leyland of Madras manufacturing the tractor-engine, and Mahindra Owen of Poona building the bus trailer.

You are right about the tractor but Wendax already has 1 point for identifying that as an Ashok Leyland Comet.
You are also right that the body was built in India, but not by Mahindra Owen.

Was 33 a special one-off build for BEST?
The BEST webside itself mentioned only ten articulated buses in their history where made for the BEST Undertaking, and only Mahindra Owen as the coachbuilder.

Ill have to check that at home tonight

[Wendax]

No animals involved in its name at all!

With Olympic, Olympian, Comet and Worldmaster ruled out and it being no animal name that leaves it either being built upon a double decker chassis like Titan or Atlantean, or you have a model code like PSUC1 which (in this case) would again be an animalous Tiger Cub. Or have I forgotten a possibility?