Solved - Bus Puzzle No. 4

[João]

Number 15 - 1935 leyland TTL bus from london

[Carnut]

OK, it's been 3 days since an ID so apart from being open to anyone who has scored less than the maximum, those who have already gained 6/7 points may now identify ONE more each (make/model/year/operator where known) for 2 more points!

Good news !  #6 is the Austin J2 from 1968, property of Gordon Holland.  It was called as the World's most Ugly PSV.

Indeed it is, so that's 1 point for the ID and 1 more for the Operator.
I've seen far uglier coaches than this; I'll try to dig some of them out for my next Bus Puzzle!

The original picture:

[Carnut]

Number 15 - 1935 leyland TTL bus from london

Leyland TTL is right, but it's not from 1935 and was nothing to do with London.
I'll lock this one for you to dig further into and say exactly what the Leyland TTL was and from when it dated.

[woodinsight]

No.8 is an AEC Regent STL class with an LPTB Chiswick built body from the mid 1930s. Operated by LPTB - London Passenger Transport Board. This bus was originally STF 1.

[pnegyesi]

Is No7 a Chinese King Long?

[João]

Interesting, I thought it was from London and 1935 (prototype).

[Wendax]

#24: An Alexander Dennis Enviro500 double-decker bus belonging to GO Transit. Seen at York University in the northern suburbs of Toronto, Canada.

[Craig Gillingham]

18. Is a 1926 Maudslay ML3 with Hall Lewis coachwork. Operated by Fallowfield & Knight.

[Carnut]

No.8 is an AEC Regent STL class with an LPTB Chiswick built body from the mid 1930s. Operated by LPTB - London Passenger Transport Board. This bus was originally STF 1.

Yes, it is.  I've seen few pictures of this full-cab STL; I wonder what happened to it..

[Carnut]

Is No7 a Chinese King Long?

No - it's not from China!

[Carnut]

#24: An Alexander Dennis Enviro500 double-decker bus belonging to GO Transit. Seen at York University in the northern suburbs of Toronto, Canada.

Exactly.  That's your 2 points..

[Carnut]

18. Is a 1926 Maudslay ML3 with Hall Lewis coachwork. Operated by Fallowfield & Knight.

Yes!  2 more points for you..

[Carnut]

Interesting, I thought it was from London and 1935 (prototype).

Actually you're right about the date; I had it as 1937 but that is incorrect.
So as per the picture you have posted it's a prototype Leyland TTL Low-loading trolley-bus.
But it had nothing at all to do with London!  I know it appears on a London Bus site but that's just someone today illustrating that this 77 year-old bus could serve today as a suitable replacement for the much-loved Routemaster, with its modern front door AND an open rear platform (just like the brand-new "Boris bus"!), plus the attraction of zero-emissions.  I know its picture also appears on a London Bus Pictures website, but that picture is of the bus  doing a demonstration run in Bolton.  There is no evidence at all of the bus ever going to London or of London Transport ever being interested in it.  Sadly this bus, which was quite advanced for a 1935 British design, never entered production.
Anyway, you've identified what it is so that's another point for you!

[Carnut]

Points still to be earned:

No 7. What is it and where does it operate?  2 pts
No 19. What is it, who bodied it, when and who operated it?  At least 2 pts - maybe more!
No 20. Where does this bus operate? 1 point.

[woodinsight]

Can I just add for the record (no points thankyou) that the Austin J2 (No.6) has a Walker Fineline body.

Am I also allowed to answer one of the three remaining puzzles?

[Carnut]

Can I just add for the record (no points thankyou) that the Austin J2 (No.6) has a Walker Fineline body.

Am I also allowed to answer one of the three remaining puzzles?

Thanks!
OK, I'll open it all up now - but still no more than one more max 2 point ID per puzzler!

[Wendax]

No 20. Where does this bus operate? 1 point.

Singapore Bus Service demonstrator

[Carnut]

No 20. Where does this bus operate? 1 point.

Singapore Bus Service demonstrator

1 more point!

[Wendax]

One more point for the fact that #7 is being built by Elba House from Jordan?

[woodinsight]

Okay thanks Carnut, my last try is on no.19.
I believe this is a Daimler CW series built in the 1943/44 period with I think a Brush utility body that has been rebuilt early postwar - probably by Nudd Bros. & Lockyer. Operator is BMMO (Midland Red) and in service in Birmingham and environs.

[pguillem]

One more point for the fact that #7 is being built by Elba House from Jordan?

I just saw the Elba House double-decker when looking for Bagdad DDs a few days ago, but the actual bus looks somewhat different from Bus #7, which is shown on Iraq-business news site.

[Carnut]

One more point for the fact that #7 is being built by Elba House from Jordan?

OK, that's yours, and...

I just saw the Elba House double-decker when looking for Bagdad DDs a few days ago, but the actual bus looks somewhat different from Bus #7, which is shown on Iraq-business news site.

...the 2nd point for this one for this answer, which is of course correct.  My puzzle picture is probably the prototype.

[Carnut]

Okay thanks Carnut, my last try is on no.19.
I believe this is a Daimler CW series built in the 1943/44 period with I think a Brush utility body that has been rebuilt early postwar - probably by Nudd Bros. & Lockyer. Operator is BMMO (Midland Red) and in service in Birmingham and environs.

I thought this one would be the last to go and so it has proved; it's rather difficult to track down.
It is indeed a Midland Red Daimler CWA6 from 1944.
But it wasn't bodied by Brush, although it does look identical to the Brush bodies fitted in the late 1940s to the Guys originally delivered with wartime utility bodies around the same time as this Daimler.
So you get 1 point for the info so far and I'll lock it for you to see if you can find out who did actually body this bus.

[woodinsight]

No.19 is the body by Duple?

[Carnut]

No.19 is the body by Duple?

It is, yes!
So that just about wraps up this puzzle.
I'm collecting material for another one already!