1950 Daimler CVG6

This is a photograph that I took in September 1988 in Heaton Park, Manchester at the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally.

It's a 1950 Daimler CVG6 and the programme of the event had this note about the vehicle:

 

'JND 728 Daimler CVG6, METRO CAMMELL. 1950 Entered by D.Potts, Denton. Manchester. Subject of dry clutch experiments, Manchester Corporation 4127 now has a standard fluid flywheel and pre-selector transmission.'

 

The 53 bus route in Manchester was (and still is) an orbital route round the south of Manchester starting at Cheetham Hill then going via Harpurhey, Gorton, Longsight, Rusholme and Old Trafford to Salford Shopping Centre. The ‘X’ and ‘Old Trafford’ indicate that this would have been a ‘Football Special’ to the Manchester United ground. Six pence in those days (2½p in decimal currency).