This film was kindly donated by Mr Malcom Law who came across it while
working through old family 8mm movies. The sequence was filmed in about 1967 at
"The Green", Horsforth, whilst his father, the late John Law, was filming Town
Street for "the record". The bus came down the road as they were filming the
view up Town Street.
Samuel Ledgard’s Yeadon (Moorfield) Depot carried out the
duties on the Horsforth to Otley route, which this bus is on and seen here going
down Town Street, Horsforth approaching the Old Kings Arms pub.
The route required low bridge vehicles due to the height of the
bridge on Henshaw Lane at Yeadon. The bus featured is one of the ‘KYY’
registered batch (either 502, 504, 506 or 508), which were purchased second hand
from London Transport (RLH Class) in 1964/65. It is an A.E.C Regent Mark 111
chassis bodied by Weymann, which seated 53 passengers.
As Ledgard’s finished operations in October 1967 when they were taken over by
the West Yorkshire Road Car Company, the clip will date from between 1964 and
1967.
Well known (and well liked) crews will have worked on this vehicle including
drivers Jim Slater and Bernard Shepherd, also clippers Peggy Haigh and Walter
Nunn.
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