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Hebble Motor Services
1952
AEC Regent III
Willowbrook L55R

This is one of the last batch of Regent IIIs Hebble took delivery of, to say it was new in 1952 it looks as if it was built well before that. I think it is the drivers sloping small window that makes it look older. Although from what I can gather the Willowbrook bodywork had excellent interior finish.

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15/08/11 – 13:20

This batch or Regents were type 9612A (A=crash gears) which was a change from the previuos Roe bodied Regents which were type 9612E (E=epicyclic pre-selector). I remember them on the Joint Bradford-Huddersfield route 64

Kev

Hebble Motor Services
1962
AEC Regent V
Northern Counties H65F

These two Regent Vs of Hebble are in Halifax bus station the one on the left is five years older with a Weymann ‘Orion’ body there is a better colour shot of one of these buses here. I am not sure what the registration is of the one on the left as it seems to have fallen off.

one on left LJX 198 – Hebble

Anonymous

01/07/14 – 06:45

No, I’m afraid the one on the left is not LJX 198 – that reg belongs to a front-entrance Regent V now preserved. I think this batch of rear-entrance Regent Vs were registered GJX —.

Iain Templeton

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Hebble Motor Services
1956
AEC Reliance MU3RV
Willowbrook B44F

I can recognize that this photo was taken outside the Hebble depot at Walnut Street in the depths of the terrace streets of north Halifax. They also had a depot in Bradford at Park Lane, the garage was big enough for 50 vehicles and Yorkshire Woollen District buses were stationed in the same depot when working the Bradford area. Hebble was one of if not the smallest B.E.T. operator and by the reading of Peter Gould’s history of Hebble Motors they did have a tendency to flaunt the rules a bit.
To read Peter Gould’s history of Hebble Motor Services and it is well worth doing so click here.