What's this then!

[john2443]

From Facebook. Make? Year?

Extra points if you know the drivers name!

[dundarach]

Is it a 1929 Daimler CF6 coach??

Or an REO??

Mrs D is calling me for lunch, Google will have to wait

[Allan L]

My guess is it's a Guy, but possibly a Star around the time of the company's take-over by Guy - Wolverhampton one way or anothe,r but probably not Sunbeam!

[Turbobanana]

The body looks to be by Wycombe, which was a subsidiary of Gilford who may, therefore, be responsible for the chassis beneath.

The problem around this time (late 1920s / early 1930s) was that coachbuilders were commissioned to build the body onto whatever chassis their customer provided, keeping only wheel design (often quite generic) and radiator grilles as identifying features. We don't get to see the grille head-on enough for part-time experts, like me, to get it by surfing through Google. Bus beards will point you towards the destination boards etc for identification, which is why I think it's by Wycombe.

Happy to be thrown under the, err... bus

ETA: Is there a small blue, unidentified coupe lurking behind it?

Edited by Turbobanana on Thursday 8th July 14:57

[john2443]

Turbobanana said:

Bus beards will point you towards the destination boards etc for identification, which is why I think it's by Wycombe.

The roof board says Stanningley, which is between Leeds and Bradford. The odd thing is the phone number - 71363 which seems too long for 1920s/ 30s. Our number, about a mile from Stanningley in the 70s was 79454.

Edited by john2443 on Sunday 11th July 15:53

[threespires]

Turbobanana said:

ETA: Is there a small blue, unidentified coupe lurking behind it?

It's probably Malcolm Campbell in his blue Sunbeam.

[Turbobanana]

john2443 said:

The roof board says Stanningley, which is between Leeds and Bradford. The odd thing is the phone number - 71363 which seems too long for 1920s/ 30s. Our number, about a mile from Stanningley in the 70s was 79454.

Edited by john2443 on Sunday 11th July 15:53

I thought that. When I was a kid (70s) we had a 4 digit number.

Some friends bought a cottage a few years back which had been owned for years by the old boy who inherited it from his parents. They bought it by auction in the 1930s from an estate agent. A catalogue for the sale was found in rhe garage, bearing the phone number "Saxmundham 8".