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The Local Transport History Library publishes these illustrated PDF booklets to a standard format of 7x5 inches, which makes them easier to read on a PC or tablet screen without annoying scrolling. If you are viewing on a mobile phone we recommend you rotate your phone to the horizontal for best results. The booklets should automatically resize to your device. You will need to have the Adobe Reader installed.

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Please note this is purely a social history site and we do not hold any personnel records of former employees and regret we are unable to help with family research questions.

We are always grateful for further information or archive and historic photographs for inclusion in second and future editions of our PDF booklets. If you can help then please email us. All our booklets are prepared by the LTHL and human error sometimes creeps in. If you spot any mistakes or typo errors please get in touch. If you have anything you think might be of interest to us that we can publish in PDF format please let us know - we are always interested in unpublished material - as long as you have copyright. For any other enquiries please email us: lth.library‘at’gmail.com (replace the ‘at’ with @).

Body/Seating Codes

All our PDF booklets use the standard PSV Circle seating codes when describing the body and seating arrangements for double and single deck buses and coaches as detailed below. The seating capacity of a double deck vehicle is usually expressed as the number of seats in the upper saloon 'over' the number of seats in the lower saloon - e.g. 30/26 . Highbridge and lowbridge refer to the body layout and not the overall height of the vehicle (i.e. lowbridge has a sunken gangway on the upper deck or part thereof).

Letters placed before the seating capacity:

AB
AC
B
C
CH
CL
CO
Ch

DP
F

H
HD
L
M
O
RC
T

Letters placed after the seating capacity:

C

D
F
L
O
R
RD
RP

T

Articulated Bus
Articulated Coach
Single-deck bus
Single-deck coach
Double-deck highbridge coach
Double-deck lowbridge coach
Convertible open top vehicle
Char-a-banc

Single-deck dual-purpose vehicle
Full fronted vehicle (where not
normally fitted)
Double-deck highbridge bus
Half-deck coach
Double-deck lowbridge bus
Minibus
Permanent open top vehicle
Airport/Observation coach
Toastrack

Centre entrance (if there are two
or more pairs of seats in front of
the entrance)
Dual entrance/exit (or more than two)
Front entrance
Wheelchair lift (shown after entrance)
Open staircase (shown after entrance)
Rear entrance
Rear entrance with doors fitted
Rear entrance with open platform
(early vehicles)
Toilet fitted (shown after entrance)

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Abbreviations

We normally use standard PSV Circle abbreviations for coach/chassis builders and the more common are listed below:

ACB     - Associated Coachbuilders
  EEC     - English Electric
  MCW    - Metro-Cammell-Weymann
  MCCW - Metro-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Co.
  NCB     - Northern Coachbuilders
  NCME   - Northern Counties Motor & Engineering                Company
  RSJ      - Ransomes, Simms & Jefferies
  SARO   - Saunders-Roe