Daimler CVG6

This bus took part in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1995.

It's a 1956 Daimler CVG6 with a Northern Counties H58C body and with what the DVLA record says is an 8.6 litre diesel engine. It was entered for the event by D.A. Jones of Burnley and was originally operated by the Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield Transport and Electricity Board, SHMD for short.

On 19 June 2016 I showed a photograph of this bus at the 1996 Trans Lancs Rally, and the programme notes in 1995 were the same as those I reported on that occasion.

Daimler CVG6

This was one of the entrants in the Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1996.

It's a 1956 Daimler CVG6 with Northern Counties H58C body. The programme of the event had this to say about the vehicle:

Daimler CVG6, Northern Counties H58C Body, 1956                                       VTU 76
S.H.M.D. 76
Entered by              D.A.Jones, Burnley, Lancs

Former Operator - S.H.M.D.  Last survivor of a batch of 6 unique centre entrance vehicles, withdrawn as S.E.L.N.E.C. 5676 in 1972. Now based at Keighley Bus Museum. S.H.M.D. (What do the letters stand for?)

Presumably whoever wrote these words knew what the letters stood for - it's the Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield Transport and Electricity Board. I don't know the date of the dark green livery - when I used the buses to travel from Denton to Manchester between 1960 and 1968 they were a much lighter shade of green.