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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #25 on: July 16, 2013, 12:21:40 PM »
Sorry, not Tilling-Stevens either.

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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #26 on: July 16, 2013, 12:37:13 PM »
Gilford ?
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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #27 on: July 16, 2013, 12:38:04 PM »
Not Gilford.

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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #28 on: July 16, 2013, 01:38:29 PM »
Gloster-Gardner ?
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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #29 on: July 16, 2013, 01:46:31 PM »
No, sorry.

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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #30 on: July 16, 2013, 02:29:15 PM »
Dennis?
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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #31 on: July 16, 2013, 02:36:06 PM »
No, not Dennis.

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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #32 on: July 16, 2013, 03:07:16 PM »
Bean.

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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #33 on: July 16, 2013, 03:13:20 PM »
Not Bean.

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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #34 on: July 16, 2013, 03:51:03 PM »
Vulcan ?

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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #35 on: July 16, 2013, 04:06:10 PM »
Harrington
Albion
Maudslay
Karrier
Thornycroft
Guy
AEC
Halley
Merryweather
Bedford
Tilling-Stevens
Gilford
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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #36 on: July 16, 2013, 04:36:47 PM »
Shelvoke & Drewry?
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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #37 on: July 16, 2013, 04:46:02 PM »
 It's two initials, but not S&D.

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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #38 on: July 16, 2013, 05:32:36 PM »
You say it's not well-known, so I'm out of ideas. I have a site which lists all makers of bus/coach chassis in the UK, and there's not much left.

It's hardly an unknown name, but Morris Commercial ?
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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #39 on: July 16, 2013, 05:51:12 PM »
Kerr-Stuart about 1929?

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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #40 on: July 16, 2013, 06:57:44 PM »
W & G?
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Re: TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926
« Reply #41 on: July 17, 2013, 05:05:00 AM »
And Carnut has it! It's the W & G Model L, made by W & G du Cros Ltd of Acton, West London.

William and George du Cros were sons of William Harvey du Cros, who among other things was a founder of the Dunlop Rubber Company.

W & G ran taxis and delivery vans before WW1, making a lot of their own bodies. They made trucks and buses after WW1, then slowly disappeared, almost without trace. Though rarely mentioned , it was one of the companies that made up the Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq conglomerate, and was disposed of just before that group went into liquidation in 1936, by which time production had dwindled.

This advert is from 1926.


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