Manchester Corporation bus after an accident

Accidents will happen, as they say. This Manchester Corporation Transport Crossley will give the depot staff quite a headache to repair as it has suffered quite a heavy impact that has shattered the cast aluminium radiator.

Dating this photograph is interesting: we know the photo is taken after 1939 because the single deck bus on the left would have had a pale, cream roof before the outbreak of war - after that they were painted grey to make them less conspicuous from the air. But 307 doesn't have the usual white back-out markings on its mudguards.

However, from the records of Manchester City Transport we know that 307 received a second-hand body from another bus in September 1945, shortly after the end of the war, and we'll take a guess that this is the reason why; and that 307 had its accident in the summer of 1945, after the white markings were removed but before the bus on the left had received a repaint.

307 only wore its 'new' body for three months before being withdrawn in December 1945, following which it was sold to Lancashire Motor Traders Ltd, a dealer, and ended up as a static caravan.

One similar Manchester Crossley survives to this day: number 436, awaiting its turn for restoration at the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester. If you'd like to know more about the Museum of Transport and its collection of vintage buses, go to www.gmts.co.uk.

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Manchester / Ardwick (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1945

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