Crosville 716, Beamish, 2024 - a photo on Flickriver

Crosville 716, Beamish, 2024

            Recently returned to service at Beamish following transmission repairs, is their 1933 ex Crosville Motor Services, Brush bodied, KP2 Leyland Cub. Crosville purchased quite a number of these buses between 1932 and 1933 for services in North Wales and its coastal areas. 

This particular bus survived as a builder's site office following withdrawal from passenger use, ending up at some point with Hollis of Queensferry who saved a number of old buses in the early 1970s. Assumedly through several owners later, the KP2 was eventually acquired by Beamish in circa 2014, later being rebuilt and restored at the London Bus Museum, Brooklands, Surrey. During the rebuild it had an electric 'wheelchair access' built into the rear end of the bus to give wheelchair users the opportunity to experience a ride on a pre-war petrol-engined bus at Beamish. 

The bus currently carries its pre-war maroon and cream livery, as a reminder of the days when the Crosville Motor Services Company was part of the London Midland Scottish Railway Company, Crosville having been acquired by the LMSR in 1929. The vehicle is pictured with the newly opened 1950s village attraction in the backdrop featuring the recently built and beautifully presented Grand Cinema. The cinema has been rebuilt from salvaged materials saved from the original picture house that stood in Ryhope, Sunderland.

Taken on: December 12, 2024

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Camera: Sony DSC-RX100, f/6.3, 1/60 sec, 18.4mm, ISO 320 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony DSC-RX100
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Exposure Time:	0.017 sec (1/60)
Focal Length:	18.4mm
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Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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