| These are pictures taken of the vehicles belonging to General Industrial Cleaners Ltd. at Borrowash, Derby in the 1970's. GIC was by then part of the Initial Services Group but since then the works has been closed and demolished. There is now a housing estate on the site, which at one time boasted its own sportsground. A case of another firm to disappear under corporate rationalisation! |
KAG 810, a Leyland Titan PD2/20 "tin front" with lowbridge NCME body, new to Western SMT in 1957, on the lunchtime staff bus duty in The Morledge, Derby, for many years a familiar sight during the 1970's |
KAG 811, the other one of the pair of ex Western SMT Leyland Titan PD2's, heads along Derwent Street towards Exeter Bridge on its way into derby on the staff bus duty |
DRB 40C sits inside Brook Road depot and workshop during my one and only visit to this mythical place |
KAG 811 is seen on Eastgate after negotiating The Pentagon roundabout on Derby's Inner Ring Road on its way into town with the staff service from Borrowash |
ACH 20B, another of the mysterious and much rebuilt Leylands, rests up in the old Park street car park, Derby, long since redeveloped and unrecognisable today! |
OFM 634, the old lady of the fleet was a venerable Bristol KSW6B with Bristol's own AVW 8.1 litre diesel still fitted, new to Crosville as fleet No. DKB476, which number plate it still carried on the staircase of its lowbridge ECW body! This bus is now preserved in Bournemouth. I had a memorable ride out to Borrowash on it in the late 1970's |
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One of the Leyland boxvans and the Albion recovery truck with LAD cab, inside the depot at Brook Road works, Borrowash |
Fri. 3 Feb. 1978 and ANU 30B with venerable style boxvan back, is seen on the old Nottingham Road at Borrowash, heading back to Brook Road factory past the erstwhile premises of Luxicoaches and Len Burrowes truck recovery service |
