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The Dewsbury Bus Museum is a museum in
The museum holds a number of Open Days and other events throughout the year, and these are well attended, with many visiting vehicles.
Prior to the redevelopment of the site in the late 1980s, there had been a small depot on the site belonging to the Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Company of Dewsbury since the 1930s. In later years, it had been used to store de-licensed coaches during the winter but by the early 1980s, it had fallen into disrepair and out of use until it was offered for sale to the West Riding Omnibus Preservation Society (WROPS) for the storage of their collection of preserved buses and coaches.
WROPS formed the West Riding Omnibus Museum Trust to purchase the building and used it until its condition deteriorated further when it was demolished and the current structure erected.
Dewsbury Bus Museum official website
Video of Open Day, 16 September 1990
1989 establishments in England Museums in West Yorkshire Bus museums in England
Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire
Ravensthorpe is an area of Dewsbury, in West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Ravensthorpe is on the western outskirts of Dewsbury and is part of the "Dewsbury West" ward in the district of Kirklees.The a ...
, England. Opened to the public in September 1989, it is owned and operated by the West Riding Omnibus Museum Trust, a registered charity, and is run entirely by volunteer effort.
It is home to the only two surviving Guy Wulfrunian double deck buses and several other West Riding Automobile Company
The West Riding Automobile Company was a bus company that served the Wakefield area of Yorkshire, England from 1922.
Company history
The West Riding Automobile Company was formed as a subsidiary of the Yorkshire (West Riding) Electric Tramways ...
vehicles as well as others from Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co, Yorkshire Traction Company, West Yorkshire PTE, Huddersfield and Halifax Corporations and local independent J. Wood of Mirfield.
The collection
The collection includes: * 1948 Leyland Titan PD2 – Leyland body – BHL682 – 640 * 1952Leyland Tiger
The Leyland Tiger, also known as the B43, was a mid-engined bus and coach chassis manufactured by Leyland between 1981 and 1992. This name had previously been used for a front-engined bus built between 1927 and 1968. It replaced the Leyland Le ...
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coach body – EHL336 – 725
* 1952 Leyland Tiger
The Leyland Tiger, also known as the B43, was a mid-engined bus and coach chassis manufactured by Leyland between 1981 and 1992. This name had previously been used for a front-engined bus built between 1927 and 1968. It replaced the Leyland Le ...
PS2 – Roe bus body – EHL344 – 733
* 1956 AEC Reliance
The AEC Reliance was a mid-underfloor mounted engined single-decker bus and coach chassis manufactured by AEC between 1953 and 1979. The name had previously been used between 1928 and 1931 for another single-decker bus chassis.
History
Two ...
bus – Roe DP body – JHL708 – 808
* 1957 AEC Reliance
The AEC Reliance was a mid-underfloor mounted engined single-decker bus and coach chassis manufactured by AEC between 1953 and 1979. The name had previously been used between 1928 and 1931 for another single-decker bus chassis.
History
Two ...
coach – Roe Dalesman body – JHL983 – 903
* 1957 Guy Arab
The Guy Arab was a bus chassis manufactured by Guy Motors. It was introduced in 1933 as a double deck chassis.
In 1942, Guy launched a modified version with wartime constraints requiring components previously made of aluminium to be made from ...
MkIV – Roe body – KHL855 – 855
* 1961 Guy Wulfrunian – Roe body – UCX275 – 995
* 1963 Guy Wulfrunian – Roe body – WHL970 – 970
* 1967 Leyland Panther
The Leyland Panther was a rear-engined single-decker bus chassis manufactured by Leyland between the years 1964 and 1972. A version with a smaller engine was released as the Leyland Panther Cub.
History
The Leyland Panther was introduced in ...
– Roe body – LHL164F – 164
* 1970 Bristol RE
The Bristol RE was a rear-engined single-decker bus or single-decker coach chassis built by Bristol Commercial Vehicles from 1962 until 1982. It is often considered the most successful of the first generation of rear-engined single-decker buses ...
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body – THL261H – 261
* 1982 Leyland National
The Leyland National is an integrally-constructed British step-floor single-decker bus manufactured in large quantities between 1972 and 1985. It was developed as a joint project between two UK nationalised industries – the National Bus Co ...
2 – Integral – XUA73X – 73
* 1984 Leyland Olympian
The Leyland Olympian was a 2-axle and 3-axle double-decker bus chassis manufactured by Leyland between 1980 and 1993. It was the last Leyland bus model in production.
Construction
The Olympian had the same chassis and running gear as t ...
– ECW body – A577NWX – 577
* 1987 Leyland Royal Tiger Doyen – Integral – E50TYG – 50
Gallery
Events
The museum holds a number of Open Days and other events throughout the year, and these are well attended, with many visiting vehicles.
Site history
Prior to the redevelopment of the site in the late 1980s, there had been a small depot on the site belonging to the Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Company of Dewsbury since the 1930s. In later years, it had been used to store de-licensed coaches during the winter but by the early 1980s, it had fallen into disrepair and out of use until it was offered for sale to the West Riding Omnibus Preservation Society (WROPS) for the storage of their collection of preserved buses and coaches.
WROPS formed the West Riding Omnibus Museum Trust to purchase the building and used it until its condition deteriorated further when it was demolished and the current structure erected.
References
External links
{{CommonscatDewsbury Bus Museum official website
Video of Open Day, 16 September 1990
1989 establishments in England Museums in West Yorkshire Bus museums in England