A murky day on The Muck - a photo on Flickriver

A murky day on The Muck

            School half-term holidays in February 1969 cued a visit to the area of hardstanding by Hull Paragon that generations of EYMS and KHCT busmen knew as “The Muck”. The site is today taken up by Hull Interchange and the St. Stephens Shopping Centre. 

With my restricted photography budget, this was a good place to nab plenty of buses in a single shot. I chose an all-too-typical gloomy Hull midwinter’s day though, but I offer this grainy effort after a half-century.

The EYMS line-up comprises from l to r: AEC Bridgemaster 696 (6696KH), the first of a batch of four delivered in 1960. These were not profiled to fit the Beverley Bar that dictated the contours of East Yorkshire double-deckers of the time. Subsequent deliveries did. Beyond is a Roe-bodied Leyland PD2/12 of 1953, just weeks before withdrawal, together with 637 (VKH37), a 1956 AEC Regent V/Willowbrook, and 787 (CKH787C), an AEC Renown/Park Royal of 1965.

For long, another EYMS quirk was the absence of a route number indicator. These only appeared in 1961.

Taken on: August 4, 2019

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Sets appears in: • 1969 Pix

Groups appears in: • Yorkshire • Transportation more » • Hull - History in Photographs • Bus UK AEC Bus & Coach • Hull, it's good but Bad and Ugly • Trams & Buses • AEC • Beauty of the buses and coaches • HULL & EAST YORKSHIRE: Photo Gallery • Go Ahead East Yorkshire Motor Services • TRANSPORTES EM FOTOS • Classic Transport • ALL BUSES OF THE WORLD • my favourite transport • BUSES BUSES BUSES ..... ANYTHING TO DO WITH BUSES • TRASPORTO PUBBLICO/PUBLIC TRANSPORT • 1,000 + Buses « less

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