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We have delved into the 35mm colour slide scans for this week's image which is courtesy of Dave Buley. Back in the summer of 1972 he was working on a project for the Transport and Road Research Laboratories at Bracknell. The research involved noise comparison tests on the six Mercedes 406D thirteen seat minibuses being used experimentally on a Car Park Shuttle Service and the Crompton Morrison Electricar. Bit of a no-brainer that one! The 21 seat Electricar was based on a modified Leyland FG900 truck chassis. The Morrison company started in making bikes and motorbikes back in the 1890s, building its first electric vehicle - a bread delivery van - in 1933 leading what it is best known for: making milk floats. Car manufacturer Austin bought a 50% share in the company in 1948 which morphed into Crompton Leyland Electricars under British Leyland - hence the use of the FG900 chassis - who disposed of the division to Hawker Siddeley who sold it on again ten years later to M&M Electric Vehicles. The body of the bus, CWO516K, was built by Willowbrook and it is badged for the Department of Trade and Industry. The pioneering electric bus, a long way from a BYD/Alexander Dennis 200EV fifty years later, was demonstrated extensively around the country, even donning South Yorkshire PTE livery at one point.
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See May 9th's picture of the week here.
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