Crosville in pictures

Companies that made up Crosville Motor Services prior to nationalisation in 1947.

Location of depots and sub-depots as at 31 March 1947, date of establishment and number of vehicles housed.

Visit if HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, 29th April 1953. Waiting to load up.

A bus station at Stanlow Oil Installation, Ellesmere Port

The main stores, Sealand Road Works, Chester

Women’s Junior Air Corps, Hoylake Branch, Amateur production “Robinson Crusoe”, 1950-51. They went by Crosville bus “down to the sea”.

Fur coats in Summers’ Steelworks - an unusual sight on the occasion of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh’s Visit, 29th April 1953

Waiting outside the Luncheon Tent to take the party of 1,200 people round the works. All coaches were immaculately turned out for the occasion.

The four musketeers at their Monday conference: I R Patey, W J Crosland-Taylor, E Roberts, G L Lindsay.

Photo by Bus and Coach magazine.

A long way from home.

The younger generation go travelling.

Liverpool-London coach, 1953

Inside the mobile office at Wrexham bus station, 1953

Crosville take the British Insulated Callender’s Cables Ltd through the Mersey Tunnel to New Brighton.

The Merseyside One O’clock Gun gives a time check at Birkenhead to Inspector WA Fryer, Driver GW Leech and Conductress WJ Dutton.

The machine shop at Crane Wharf, Chester, in 1946, and the same view in 1951 - the machinery has gone and it is now the General Office.