Manchester Trolleybus to university 213 Gt Ancoats Street, Ardwick Green, Brunswick Street - 1250 - JVU755 sepia

More info at http://www.crossley-motors.org.uk/history/buses/Trolleybus/Dominion_Empire.html This was one of 16 TDD64's, known as the Dominion, which entered service in 1951 and were type TDD64/1, the only ones constructed. Fleet number is 1250 and carries registration number JVU 755. Crossley were relatively late coming into trolleybus manufacture. They had been the major supplier of motor buses to Manchester Corporation and it was only after Manchester announced their intention to convert some tram routes to trolleybus operation that Crossley took up trolleybus production from 1936. The first Manchester vehicles were delivered for the commencement of trolleybus operation in 1938. Engine/gearbox/transmission, motors: Metropolitan-Vickers TDD42 - MV209, TDD64 - MV2101, Overhead line voltage: 550v DC