BUSES.

1954 KARRIER.

Model- Mini coach. The Commer  Karrier Company was the  commercial vehicle arm of the Rootes Group, with assembly factories in Luton and Dunstable. This coach was assembled at Dunstable, but the 2,266cc engine and gearbox were made at the Rootes factory in Stoke, Coventry. The body was built by Reading and Company of Portsmouth. The museum acquired the vehicle in 1980 when it was generously donated by the Leicester Mission for the Deaf. The vehicle was restored to its original livery by the museum workshop in 1988.

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1973 DAIMLER FLEETLINE BUS.

Engine - 10,450cc.  Top speed - 50 mph.  The fleetline was the last in a long line of buses manufactured by Daimler and used by Coventry transport. This particular vehicle was the last completed fleetline and was delivered to Coventry Transport in 1973. The museum acquired this bus in 1986 and converted it into an open-topper. Its first public appearance after the conversion was to carry the victorious Coventry City football team on their triumphant tour around the city following their victory in the 1987 F.A.Cup Final.

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1948 MAUDSLAY MARATHON MKII COACH.

Engine- 7,900cc.  Top Speed- 50mph.  The Maudslay Company were once a longstanding Coventry car and commercial vehicle builders with a factory in the Parkside area of the city. This coach was first used by the coach tour operators, Hacketts of Manchester. It is powered by a six cylinder petrol engine. By the 1940s most heavy buses and coaches were powered by diesel engines although some high grade coaches, like this Maudslay, were still using petrol engines.

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LEYLAND BUSES.

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BARTONS BUS RECOVERY VEHICLE.

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ATLANTEAN.

The Leyland Atlantean is a double-decker bus chassis manufactured by Leyland Motors between 1958 and 1986. It pioneered the design of rear-engine, front entrance double deck buses in the United Kingdom, allowing for the introduction of one man operated buses, dispensing with the need for a bus conductor.

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DAIMLER BUS.

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1949 AEC REGAL III.

Ordered by Enterprise Passenger Services of Scunthorpe as their no 60, this dual purpose (bus/coach) vehicle was first licensed by Lincolnshire Road Car in 1950, after Enterprise had been taken over by Road Car and it had been in store for several months, then numbered 860. This vehicle has air brakes and an air operated pre selector gearbox. It spent most of its life with LRCC at Scunthorpe being withdrawn in 1961 and later being used by various contractors in North Lincolnshire area. Eventually it was sold for scrap by a potato company to a dealer at Worksop, following a mechanical failure, but was rescued by a society member in the early 1970s. After much work, both mechanically and bodily, it is now in the livery it first entered revenue earning service with the Lincolnshire Road Car.

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1935 LEYLAND TIGER TS7.

Leyland single deck buses were the mainstay of  the pre-war Lincolnshire Road Car fleet, with 88TS7 and TS8 models being purchased. This TS7 example originally carried number LT370 and was one of the first buses in the county to be powered by a diesel rather than a petrol engine. A new Burlingham body replaced the original Brush body in 1949, it was renumbered 1411 in 1953 and remained in service with Road Car until 1959.

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1966 BRISTOL RELH6G WITH AN ECW DP47F BODY.

The 1960s saw the advent of the rear engine bus, the Bristol RE being the most successful of the single deck designs. This is an example of the coach version supplied new to Lincolnshire Road Car as fleet number 1431. Later downgraded to service work, it was withdrawn from service in 1982 and subsequently acquired for preservation.

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1929 LEYLAND LION LT1 WITH APPLEWHITE B32R BODY.

One of four Lions that Lincoln Corporation took delivery of with bodywork by local coachbuilder Applewhite's. When new they had concrete floors and were known as `Fireproofs` by staff. No 5 remained in service until 1949, after which it was used as a snowplough, before being sold in 1959 to Sid Twell of Ingham. It stood in his yard until being donated to the society in 1959 and was then dry stored for 25 years before being restored as an apprentice scheme by Lincoln City Council, after which it saw active service again for a while on city tour duty.

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1929 CHEVROLET LQ WITH A SPLICER C14D BODY.

This little coach was used on daily tours from Morecombe to the lake district until the early 1950`s. Of American design, this make was the predecessor of the famous Bedford marque.

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VARIOUS BUSES AWAITING RESTORATION.

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VEHICLES # 2.

 

 

1911 DAIMLER TOURER.

 

Some of Daimlers cars used an unusual engine with sleeve valves. Designed by Charles Knight the engine was so quiet they called it `the silent knight`. £375 new, Top speed - 40mph. Engine - 12hp 4 cylinder valve engine.

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1934 SINGER NINE COUPE.

 

Singers 9hp models proved very popular sports cars. Many open top tourers were made along with this rarer sports coupe version. 9hp 4 cylinder engine.

 

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1966 HUMBER IMPERIAL.

 

This car was one of a fleet of cars owned by Taylor`s of Warwick. It was used as a hire car for weddings and special occasions.

 

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1974 JAGUAR E TYPE.

 

This e type was one of the last fifty made and is one of the most original, only travelling 800 miles. Price new £3,683. Engine - 5.3 litre. Top speed - 146mph. Made in Coventry, England.

 

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1898 DAIMLER PHAETON.

 

This car was made at the first car factory in Britain, the Motor Mills in Drapers Field, Coventry, England. Set up by Harry Lawson in 1896. Engine - 6hp.

 

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1906 STANDARD MOTORCAR.

 

This is the oldest surviving standard car. In 1950 it was discovered in a barn in Australia. It was restored and returned to Britain in 1959.

 

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1914 HUMBER TOURER.

 

The museum has decided to preserve this vehicle instead of restoring it, as it has many original parts the museum do not want to replace. Engine - four cylinder, 11hp. Cost new £350.

 

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1923 ALBATROSS.

 

This car was made by Albatross Motors at their Albatross Works, Croft Road, Coventry, England. An engineer named Albert Ross was thought to have been involved in the company and this may be how the name came about. Engine - 10hp, 1247cc, 4 cylinder. Top speed - 40mph.

 

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1952 HILLMAN MINX MK5 SALOON.

 

The Minx was introduced by the Rootes group in 1932 and was used for the next 38 years. For the design of this car Rootes worked with Raymond Loewy who had created innovative designs for Studebaker in the USA. Top speed - 63mph. Engine - 1997cc. £450 new.

 

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1972 DAIMLER SOVEREIGN XJ6 SALOON.

 

This car is the Daimler version of the Jaguar XJ6. It was made at the Jaguar factory in Browns Lane. The Jaguar XJ6 was first made in 1968 and was said to be William Lyons, the founder of Jaguar, favourite car.

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1996 PEUGEOT 406 RADIO CAR.

 

This car was owned by BBC Coventry and Warwickshire Radio. It was a mobile radio station, travelling around Warwickshire, transmitting reports to the main studio in Coventry. Engine - 1100cc 4 cylinder, Five speed manual gearbox.

 

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2014 TX4 TAXI.

 

This taxi was made by the London Taxi Company at their factory in Holyhead Road, Coventry, where taxi`s have been made since 1946.

 

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NOTTINGHAM INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM.

 

WARP KNITTING MACHINE.

 

Built in 1910 by the Hosiery Machine Building Company, this warp knitting machine was in operation in Nottingham in 1976. This type of knitting was almost always done by machine due to the complex patterns it produced.

 

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CIRCULAR KNITTING MACHINE.

 

This machine was made by Wildman Manufacturing Co, USA, approximately 1930 to 1933. Used by Vedonis Ltd, Hucknall UK between 1933 and 1979. This circular interlock stitch machine was fitted with an automatic brake mechanism in case of yarn breakage.

 

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LEAVERS LACE MACHINE.

 

Built by John Leavers, this particular machine was in use in Ilkeston uk until the 1960`s. Leavers began designing lace machines in 1813. This example is a later one that incorporated the jacguard card mechanism to produce patterned lace.

 

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EDGE RUNNER MILL.

 





It was used for the fine grinding of seasonings, peppers and mustard, at the Boots factory in Beeston uk for 35 years. The granite bed measures six feet in diameter.

 

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PEN RULING MACHINE.

 

Made by Waite and Sheard of Hanley, Yorkshire, UK. Used by S.W.Jackson, printer, Nottingham. Sheets of paper are fed onto the top blanket and kept in place by the thin cords. When the machine is running, the paper passes beneath the two rows of pens and is marked with lines. The pens are fed from ink-soaked flannels or strands of wool. The ruled sheets are dropped onto a lower set of cards and returned. They are carried onto the lay-boy device, which straightens and delivers them. The inked lines are dried by the blotting paper on the rollers.

 

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ALBION PRINTING PRESS.

 

Made by Hopkinson and Cope, Finsbury, London, England.

 

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CROPPER PLATEN PRESS 1900.

 

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POWDER PACKING MACHINE.

 

For commonly used preparations, automatic packing machines replaced hand wrapping. This machine was supplied to Boots works, on Island street, off  London road, Nottingham in 1936, by Rose Brothers of Gainsborough.

 

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PRINTING PRESS.

 

A treadle operated platen press, used by Turners Press, Nottingham.

 

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DEY CLOCKING IN CLOCK.

 

Made by Howard Brothers, Liverpool, used by W.  Benson Ltd., Nottingham until the 1960`s.

 

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WHIM OR HORSE GIN.

 

This horse driven gin was often used for winding water, coal and men out of mine shafts. The gin you see here was used to sink Langton Colliery, Pinxton, England in 1841. In 1844 it was transferred to Pinxton Green where it was used as late as 1950.

 

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GAS STREET LAMP.

 

This lamp was originally situated outside the Nottingham University buildings on Shakespeare street. It was damaged during an air raid on the city during the second world war.

 

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BARMEN LACE MACHINE.

 

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CAM WHEEL MECHANISM.

 

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