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rather than the previous 30 ft 10in, both decks had double curvature screens and side glazing became panoramic, with double-width window glasses. In 1968 angled flat glass at the front and a glass-fibre dash was added and a centre exit was fitted whilst the rear dome reverted to a square outline. This made the appearance similar to the Oldham
Corporation variant supplied with conventional side glazing on standard wheelbase Atlanteans since 1965. The Leeds design was produced until 1975 with a few going to independent operators in England and Scotland. The Leeds and Oldham designs in turn led to the Park Royal–Roe standard design for Atlantean and Fleetline built from 1969 to 1981, which had a deeper front screen optionally to Alexander layout or flat-glazed and wider pillar spacing than the previous standard but not as long as that fitted to the Leeds style or the Manchester Corporation
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enough and the first company was voluntarily wound-up after a directors' meeting in
November 1922. The receiver of the original company was able to give the bank a small surplus, whilst among the debts received £3,000 had come from various other purchasers plus £900 from Railless Ltd, who had subcontracted the Birmingham bodybuilding contract to Roe. Late payment can kill many a new business and it seems to have been the death of the original Roe company. C.H. Roe in a personal capacity bought the remaining assets from the receiver for £1,140.
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776:'s post-war underfloor engined single deckers from 27 ft 6in to 29 ft 3in, allowing an extra four seats to be fitted. This work covered classes S6, S8, S9, S11 and all but one of S10, a grand total of 455 buses all converted in 1952 or 1953. In 1952 Charles H Roe resigned from the position of managing director, although he remained as chairman.
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passenger heating and ventilation as well as engine cooling. The front wheels had double wishbone independent suspension and like the rear axle had a self-levelling air suspension system, the foundation braking was by disc brakes on all four wheels with a drum brake on the driveshaft providing the parking brake and the
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building enclosed, or saloon, coaches which were often fitted to chassis which had previously carried charabanc bodies, Roe having a surplus of second-hand charabanc bodies by 1925. Two further debentures were called for, but this time it wasn't to keep the business going, but to fund the expansion of the premises.
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Government was phasing out the New Bus Grant which had provided up to 50% of the cost of a bus used on local services, provided it met certain rules. In order to compensate for this drop in bus sales, Leyland Bus (as it had now become) decided to produce a
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in 1917. He continued to be its managing director until 1952. Charles H. Roe
Limited produced distinctive and durable coachwork which although associated most strongly with municipal operators, particularly in Yorkshire, sold to a wide range of bus, trolleybus and coach operators, and there were even
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In 1981, production peaked at Roe, with 182 bodies built, the highest total since 1966 (the year when double-decks were finally allowed to be operated without a conductor, the first bus to do so, on the day of the law change, being a Great
Yarmouth Roe-bodied Atlantean). The standard body was phased
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single deckers. This then became a standard option at Roe who also optionally fitted the
Alexander style double-curvature upper-deck front window on rear engined chassis, curving the line of the foremost upper deck side windows down to meet this, producing an elegant style which suited the Fleetline
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Wulfrunian body was lower built as this chassis was designed as a low height bus with stepless entrance and centre gangways on both decks. Roe also softened the outline of the body with a subtly curved rear dome; the use of equal-depth windows on both decks produced a much more balanced look. Of
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buses) but two were supplied to
Liverpool Corporation and briefly used as service buses (1942–44) before being converted to mobile canteens. More normal passenger vehicle bodies were built during the war to the Government-mandated 'utility' outline including 240 single-deck 32 seaters on Bedford OWB
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chassis for Leeds
Corporation, this bus had a rakish streamlined outline and a full-width cab but more importantly had an all-new steel framework patented by the company, Roe and Bramham (who became a director that year) and a 'Safety Staircase' patented by the company, Roe, Bramham and William Vane
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Another significant patent was jointly granted in 1930 to the company, Mr Roe and J.C. Whitely the general manager of
Grimsby Corporation for a central entrance double decker with a distinctive design of staircase which rose transversely two steps to a wide landing and then branched into forward and
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The composite body had been revised post-war, with a new patent waist rail, the teak structural member now covered by rolled steel plate. In 1957 the composite double decker reached its final form with teak framing to the lower deck ceiling or upper deck floor and an aluminium framework above. This
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petrol-electric/trolley bus (type PERC1) built-for and patented-by the Teesside Railless Traction Board's manager. Tilling-Stevens had contracted to supply a complete vehicle; they then subcontracted the body to Tramway Supplies who sub-subcontracted it to Blackburn, who sub-sub-subcontracted it to
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Trading difficulties in the early 1920s recession affected many businesses, the under-capitalised original Roe company being just one, during 1921 two debentures had to be secured to continue trading, the second relating directly to the Birmingham Corporation double deckers. Unfortunately it wasn't
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area of the city of Leeds and knew that a large shell-filling factory there had been vacated by the government. Thus for the purpose of purchasing this large site with a modern factory building and space for expansion he registered Charles H Roe Limited on 26 May 1920. The shareholders included his
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which was even more avant-garde than the Atlantean, it was designed to the requirements of the independent West Riding company and featured a front engine on the front entrance platform, instead of a front radiator it had two Cave-Browne-Cave heat exchangers on the upper deck front face to provide
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Three diecast model manufacturers produce 1:76 scale models of Roe vehicles, EFE have a pre-war Leyland Tiger bus, Corgi OOC produce the final style of rear entrance composite body as a half-cab or a trolleybus and Britbus make the NBC version of the standard Atlantean body in single or dual-door
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In 1964 Leeds, the last provincial bastion of the rear-open platform double decker took a batch of Fleetlines to Great Yarmouth outline and the first of these was also shown at the 1964 show, Leeds continually revised this design over the next few years, in 1966 it was extended to 33 ft long
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Although ACV owned three chassis manufacturers and three coachbuilders (Park Royal, Roe and Crossley) they did not try to tie the hands of customers. Some rationalisation happened early in that any orders for Park Royal composite bodies were transferred to Roe, and steel-framed bodies were either
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the time all of Roe's double-deck customers specified closed-tops on the upper deck. In 1926 Straker-Squire finally folded and Roe stored uncompleted vehicles for Clough, Smith prior to a new arrangement which saw their electrical equipment fitted to Karrier chassis. Also at this time Roe started
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to receive versions of their standard coachwork. In 1983, production of the underframe was moved to Workington and 22 coaches were completed by Roe, as well as 86 Olympians. The plant was not at that point viable for British Leyland, who had been impoverished by the chronic failure of its Austin
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coach from Germany. Production got off to a slow start, not helped by overly centralised control from Leyland and a rigid set of body specifications, which did not initially provide all the features more demanding coach customers wanted. In 1983, the year of launch, only 10 complete Royal Tiger
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Urban District Council. The Ramsbottom examples were to a steel-frame design but it was wood and metal composite construction particularly using teak that became synonymous with the C.H. Roe name. The RET business had gone through one bankruptcy prior to C.H. Roe joining, originally having been
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One lesson had been learned in the formation of the second company (initially Charles H. Roe (1923) Limited) in that share capital was one third larger (£8,500 rather than £5,850). At this time motorbus, rather than trolleybus or charabanc bodies began to assume a greater prominence. Like
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bought a controlling shareholding in the company, three Roe board members were replaced by Park Royal directors and C.H Roe joined the board of Park Royal. In 1949 Park Royal were taken over by Associated Commercial Vehicles by then the parent company of AEC, Crossley and
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In 1934 five years after the original company was wound up, the board agreed to remove the (1923) from the current company name. At the same time share capital rose to £12,000 and the current mortgages and debenture were repaid in favour of a new first mortgage.
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An even more complicated situation arose with the Leeds-based operation Tramway Supplies Ltd. They tendered for complete vehicles and then subcontracted the chassis supply to one manufacturer and the body supply to another. One of the body subcontractors was the
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By August 1917 C.H. Roe had set up on his own account as an engineer and coachbuilder in a nearby factory unit. Always an innovator with a shrewd grasp of the value of intellectual property Roe applied for his first patent (relating to driving pulleys) on
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founded as the Railless Electric Traction Company Ltd in 1908. In 1916, the RET Company was required under war regulations to turn over production to munitions and being unable to supply orders in hand for trolleybuses was closed down in 1917.
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out in 1981, as the Fleetline had been discontinued and the Atlantean could not be sold after 1983 as it fell foul of noise-pollution laws. In 1981 the Park Royal coachworks were closed. The new body to take its place was for the new
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under which underfloor engined single decks could not work but there were also one each for the Leeds Council Welfare department (with a rear ramp for wheelchair access) and for the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation.
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to 3 ft gauge, lowering the bodies in the process. The CDR thus became the first railway in Ireland to use internal combustion engines and by the time of closure ran all passenger services and a number of freights using
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half-cab chassis until 1968, the last batch being built for Northampton Corporation on CVG6, replacing earlier Roe-bodied CVG6s which at the time comprised the entire Northampton fleet, all but five having composite bodies.
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had refused a request for a blue plaque on account of no original fabric remaining. The developer Avant Homes who built houses on the factory site did not respond to requests to allow a memorial garden. Pub developer
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underfloor-engined chassis, Roe modifying the body for the higher frame height. They featured five entry-exit doors, two on the offside, and were used to transport passengers from their aircraft to the terminal at
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chassis and were hence known as Straker-Clough; Roe bodies supplied to them were then supplied to the Teesside Railless Traction Board (a municipal joint committee who had taken over the North Ormesby Company) and
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in the town, eventually rising to a foreman's position. C.H. Roe served his apprenticeship at the drawing office of the carriage works and his first job after gaining his trade in 1912 was as a draughtsman at the
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father and a number of family friends. Whilst the formation of the company and negotiations to buy the Cross Gates site commenced, coachbuilding continued at the Hunslet factory, bodies including Charabancs on
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in 1982 it was closed in September 1984. Former workers and management pooled their redundancy money and in 1985 returned to the Roe factory in Leeds with a new bus-building business under the new name of
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group. As well as looking ungainly these buses became notorious for their propensity to corrode. Roe also built both forward and rear entrance bodies using this structure on conventional chassis,
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trolleybuses however a lot of the coachbuilding work on motorbuses was subcontracted either from the chassis manufacturer or from a dealership company. Thus many early Roe bus bodies on
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fleet. Unlike the Coronation trolleybuses they were to replace, the Hull Panthers were allowed to be one man operated. Roe then built versions of this body for Leeds on the similar
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and the post 1964 low height Atlantean. Also in 1964 for that year's Commercial Motor show Roe built its first body to the 36 ft length permissible since 1961, it was an early
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Former workers and management pooled their redundancy money and in February 1985 returned to the Roe factory in Cross Gates with a new bus-building business under the new name of
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bought out the National Bus Company's 50% shareholding in the joint-venture Bus Manufacturers Holdings Ltd which had not only owned Bristol, ECW, Park Royal and Roe but also the
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and 50% by NBC. Leyland took complete control in 1982 and closed Charles H Roe in September 1984. In the following year, a group of employees from the former business, began the
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did however respond positively to lobbying and have agreed their forthcoming Cross Gates outlet, opened on 21 July 2020, would be named 'The Charles Henry Roe'.
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built by Park Royal or by Roe using Park Royal frames. By the mid-1950s all metal-framed bodies by ACV, regardless of coachbuilder, had a Park Royal outline.
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rearward ascending longitudinal flights to the upper deck. Roe built bodies to this style until 1950 and licencees included
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tractor units. Similar bus-seated vehicles were built mainly for use within Ordnance factories (where they became known as
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Bi-mode bus PERC1 for Teesside Railless Traction Board
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1960:Kahn Design
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1743:Leyland DAF
1738:Leyland Bus
1701:Southampton
1350:2 June 1984
1159:Recognition
1110:Royal Tiger
1060:factory at
962:Ford Anglia
774:Midland Red
582:Thornycroft
554:Northampton
439:Thornycroft
405:Cross Gates
366:Sole trader
344:World War I
301:Early years
101:Cross Gates
3419:Categories
3389:53°48′31″N
3173:Fifth Gear
2963:Green Flag
2714:Pilkington
2657:Cummins UK
2520:Lanchester
2485:Eagle Cars
2364:JBA Motors
2192:Land Rover
2040:Van Diemen
2025:Sumo Power
1930:Driftworks
1887:Motorsport
1793:Park Royal
1494:Commercial
1386:Leeds Live
1216:References
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999:Darlington
546:Ramsbottom
359:Ramsbottom
263:Preserved
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239:Preserved
216:Preserved
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43:Manchester
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3223:What Car?
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2912:Stoneacre
2890:H.R. Owen
2699:Millbrook
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2327:Westfield
2305:Toyota UK
2290:Overfinch
2280:Nissan UK
2224:Lightning
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2015:RML Group
1970:Lola Cars
1580:Wrightbus
1498:producers
1407:Roe buses
1203:Magazines
1019:Blackburn
1011:Mancunian
991:AEC Swift
970:Alexander
884:V-Bombers
880:The Eagle
795:unit for
665:Bevin-Bus
640:Blackpool
620:Beaumaris
608:Lowestoft
558:Doncaster
550:Rotherham
447:limousine
431:Rotherham
385:charabanc
322:works of
320:Wakefield
313:at their
280:Yorkshire
86:Successor
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2983:Kwik Fit
2973:Halfords
2870:Inchcape
2855:Carcraft
2734:Tickford
2652:Cosworth
2621:Wolseley
2596:Standard
2535:MG Rover
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2339:Kit cars
2315:Vauxhall
2162:Caterham
2045:Williams
2000:Prodrive
1995:Munchi's
1925:Cosworth
1823:Smith EV
1813:Sentinel
1803:Scammell
1768:Maudslay
1763:Marshall
1718:Hallford
1656:Crossley
1298:Obituary
1155:format.
1130:Van Hool
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911:Llanelli
842:and the
803:for the
770:Guy Arab
766:Plymouth
724:Maudslay
628:Crossley
590:Londonat
574:Teesside
572:and the
570:Bradford
355:Shanghai
218:Crossley
54:Industry
3310:Plaxton
3299:Current
3252:Commons
3096:Autocar
2885:Lookers
2875:Jardine
2825:Tomkins
2795:Gardner
2744:Unipart
2724:Ricardo
2645:Current
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2601:Sunbeam
2564:Reliant
2530:Melling
2505:Gilbern
2480:Daimler
2450:Bristol
2440:Belsize
2379:Quantum
2349:Davrian
2295:Radical
2246:McLaren
2177:Ginetta
2106:Bentley
2094:Lagonda
2077:Current
2005:Radical
1990:M-Sport
1975:McLaren
1955:Hewland
1838:Sunbeam
1828:Stevens
1728:Karrier
1681:Eastern
1661:Daimler
1626:Bristol
1621:Bedford
1525:Arrival
1518:Plaxton
1506:Current
1496:vehicle
1484:marques
1134:Plaxton
1001:and on
872:Ferrari
848:Swindon
813:Daimler
692:Sunbeam
688:Daimler
679:Bedford
669:During
535:Gardner
503:bi-mode
469:Karrier
435:Leyland
410:Karrier
332:Hunslet
296:History
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229:Daimler
206:Daimler
78:Defunct
70:Founder
62:Founded
3352:Dennis
3335:Former
3192:Octane
3018:The AA
2917:Sytner
2902:Perrys
2880:JCT600
2790:Ferodo
2768:Former
2719:Quaife
2616:Trojan
2574:Rootes
2554:Morris
2515:Jowett
2510:Jensen
2470:Caparo
2430:Austin
2425:Ascari
2410:Allard
2403:Former
2300:Spyker
2275:Morgan
2229:Lister
2187:Jaguar
2157:Briggs
1945:Fortec
1915:Carlin
1853:Vulcan
1723:Jensen
1666:Dennis
1651:Commer
1601:Albion
1589:Former
1570:Optare
1142:Optare
868:Jaguar
805:Uganda
711:Lydney
624:Albion
566:Oldham
414:Lancia
290:Optare
190:Optare
119:Parent
90:Optare
3124:Buses
2922:Vertu
2754:Wipac
2569:Riley
2490:Fenix
2415:Alvis
2384:Sylva
2332:Zenos
2285:Noble
2239:Lotus
2234:Geely
2084:Ariel
2055:Xtrac
2050:Wirth
1965:Ilmor
1778:Modec
1713:Honda
1691:Foden
1671:Duple
1530:BEDEO
1181:Books
1125:Setra
1117:Tiger
793:X-ray
683:Bevin
675:Foden
562:Leeds
506:Roe.
328:Leeds
276:Leeds
147:Leeds
145:, in
45:with
2704:MIRA
2495:Ford
2445:Bond
2374:Onyx
2123:Mini
1696:Ford
1132:and
933:and
870:and
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705:and
626:and
614:and
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443:Fiat
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