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Well, Jim, it was Singleton's for many years. We didn't have a family car for the longest time whe I was growing up, and we always had a Singleton's taxi to take us to St.Annes or Fleetwood for our summer holiday. We got to see that old horse-yard with the wooden stables out back converted to garages for the Singleton's coaches quite a lot.
Singleton's had one of the only three-axle single decker coaches I've ever seen. I think it was built on a modified Leyland truck frame, can't remember if it was a "Steer" or a "Hippo". One had two front axles, the other two at the back. the coach had two at the back. It had the then-conventional half cab for the driver alongside the engine.
I believe a group of people in the Leyland area have resurrected that old trouper.
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What an interesting site. Thanks Jim. I can remember being excited at going on one of the 'new' Atlantean buses as a child/young teenager ( not sure what year they came into service)
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Frank, I found them!!!! The Singleton coach is a twin rear axled Leyland. I have viewed the photos and would have posted them if I could have got time on the museum scanner. Unfortunatley, due to orders in progress, I couldn`t get within a mile of it. I`m going in early next Tuesday and hope to have them scanned before anyone else arrives.
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Jim:
I think that coach was at the Fishwick's 90th anniversary. There was some publicity on the web during the following year about its restoration.
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I used to drive for fishwicks in the early 70's passed my test on a old PD2 No 25,Reg No JTJ 823. Then onto atlantean's, we was on about £17 a week then, and I went onto what was called O. M.O busses, if you was an omo driver you got an extra £7 a week, I lived on Leyland Lane No 124 in those days, and can still remember being knocked up at 7 am with a bus full of passengers parked outside the house and a garage mechanic saying can you take this to preston now as the driver had'nt turned up, he had drove it down from the garage, this happened on a few ocassions, the best run I liked was the Croston road trip. I still have my badge No 93934, oh by the way my surname was Harrison,I was the smallest driver they had, good memories
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That's the one, Jim. Thanks.
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My father Bren Carton worked at Fishwicks for many years, not sure when he started there. He passed away in April 1982 aged 42. I dare say there are a few out there who remember him. During the last couple of years he was Fishwicks driving instructor and also worked in the office, though he did still drive occasionally.
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Hello, Colm. Welcome to the forum. :-)
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