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Walter Alexander Coachbuilders was a Scottish builder of bus and coach bodywork based in Falkirk. The company was formed in 1947 to continue the coachbuilding activities of W. Alexander & Sons when their bus service operation was nationalised .
1961 Alexander built the first of a new single deck coach, the Y-type, a highly adaptable design. It became the standard vehicle for the Scottish Bus Group as well as used by many operators south of the border.
On this page we celebrate the huge fleet of 1950s front-engined single deck buses and coaches operated by W. Alexander and Sons throughout Scotland. This is not intended as a comprehensive fleet list, but came about as a result of the many fine pictures sent to me by George Bett, who was photographing buses in Scotland from the 1950s onwards ...
Feb 22, 2024 · Walter Alexander Coachbuilders was a coachbuilding company based in Falkirk, Scotland. Founded in 1922, the company continues today as part of the coachbuilder Alexander Dennis Ltd (ADL). The founder of the company, Walter Alexander, ran a bus company in Scotland called Alexander's Motor Service.
Walter Alexander and Co (Coachbuilders) Ltd was incorporated. By 1961 the company owned 2,000-vehicle operating over an 8,000 square mile area of Scotland. It was then divided into three separate companies — Fife , Midland and Northern .
Dec 31, 2000 · Walter Alexander Coachbuilders was a Scottish builder of bus and coach bodywork based in Falkirk. The company was formed in 1947 to continue the coachbuilding activities of W. Alexander & Sons when their bus service operation was nationalised.
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Walter Alexander & Co (Coachbuilders) Ltd was formed in 1948 in order to purchase the bodybuilding works of Walter Alexander & Sons, in 1949, prior to the nationalisation of bus transport and...
