TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926

Tom_I · July 16, 2013, 12:21:40 PM

Sorry, not Tilling-Stevens either.

nicanary · July 16, 2013, 12:37:13 PM

Gilford ?

Tom_I · July 16, 2013, 12:38:04 PM

Not Gilford.

nicanary · July 16, 2013, 01:38:29 PM

Gloster-Gardner ?

Tom_I · July 16, 2013, 01:46:31 PM

No, sorry.

Carnut · July 16, 2013, 02:29:15 PM

Dennis?

Tom_I · July 16, 2013, 02:36:06 PM

No, not Dennis.

FrontMan · July 16, 2013, 03:07:16 PM

Bean.

Tom_I · July 16, 2013, 03:13:20 PM

Not Bean.

pguillem · July 16, 2013, 03:51:03 PM

Vulcan ?

Tom_I · July 16, 2013, 04:06:10 PM

Harrington
Albion
Maudslay
Karrier
Thornycroft
Guy
AEC
Halley
Merryweather
Bedford
Tilling-Stevens
Gilford
Gloster-Gardner
Dennis
Bean
Vulcan

nicanary · July 16, 2013, 04:36:47 PM

Shelvoke & Drewry?

Tom_I · July 16, 2013, 04:46:02 PM

It's two initials, but not S&D.

nicanary · 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 ?

4popoid · July 16, 2013, 05:51:12 PM

Kerr-Stuart about 1929?

Carnut · July 16, 2013, 06:57:44 PM

W & G?

Tom_I · 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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TEI #33 Solved. W & G Model L Single Deck Bus, circa 1926