E8961 is a Leyland (obviously from the photograph)
but bodywork unknown. It was new in March 1924 to Arthur Turner of 27 Tunstall
Road, Biddulph and had left him by Jan 1929. I have details of 4 buses operated
by him but this is the first photograph I have seen of one of them.
Would be interested to know the names of the
"crew", perhaps one for Jeremy Condliffe and his "Glancing back
in pictures" column. Can't quite
make out the name of the establishment to the rear of the bus but it is alongside
an Hotel.
Congleton terminus in the 1920's was Congleton
(Fountain) for most Biddulph services i.e. Swan Bank and Bridge Street
(Bears Head Hotel)
