tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69789604143520293082012-01-28T16:14:43.420ZHelping to save our past for the future, Dundee Museum of Transport is seeking to acquire the Maryfield Tram Depot in Forfar Road not only to display a large and varied collection of heritage exhibits but also for educational and training purposes in association with many local organisations and charities.Jimmy McDonellnoreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978960414352029308.post-81276782975514444862012-01-28T16:14:00.001Z2012-01-28T16:14:43.428Z

One of Dundee Museum of Transport's contributors, Dundee Model Railway Club, has officially launched their new website. With full exhibition details, layout plans, photographs and much more the site can now be found by clicking here (external link).   

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Keith Richardson has kindly contacted Dundee Museum of Transport to share with us some information and photographs of the former 1961 Angus Area / Tayside Fire Brigade Turntable Ladder. MTS279 is preserved, under restoration and hopefully will become part of Tayside's transport heritage on display in our Transport Museum. Find out more on our Exhibits and Collections page in the Gallery section

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Dundee Museum of Transport registered with RBS CommunityForce, an initiative which sees them working with local communities to support the people, projects and charities making a real difference where you live. Voting was open for four weeks from 26 September 2011 and in the Dundee area we received 765 votes making us the regional winner. Our grant of £6000 will be used for our feasibility

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On Saturday 29 October 2011 Stagecoach Strathtay ran a Routemaster bus on the Tayway service to mark the 25th Anniversary of their involvement with this service. This Routemaster, formerly RM560 with London Transport, has been painted into Alexander Midland livery but never actually operated on the Tayway service. The Tayway service as such actually started in November 1980 and was run jointly

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Voting on the RBS CommunityForce website (external link) is now open until 23 October 2011. Please tell as many people as you can and make sure they place their vote for us! If we receive enough support the Museum could receive a grant of £6000 so every vote counts.   

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Dundee Museum of Transport has registered with RBS CommunityForce. This is an initiative which sees them working with local communities to support the people, projects and charities making a real difference where you live. If we receive enough support the Museum could receive a grant of £6000. Part of the grant would go towards our feasibility study which relates directly to the regeneration and

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Online news and entertainment TV station The Dundee Channel (external link) interviewed Dundee Museum of Transport chairman Jimmy McDonell at the Baxter Park Gala Day on 7 August 2010. We are grateful to the Channel for providing us with a copy of this interview for our website and YouTube channel (external link).   

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Two new slideshow videos have now been added to the Gallery section of the website. They can be accessed by clicking here or selecting 'Videos' from the 'Gallery' menu. The first video shows a compilation of a number of photographs and other items that were collected for our successful exhibition held in Dundee's Central Library in October/ November 2010. The first part of the slideshow is

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On Saturday 14 May 2011 a reader's family photograph of Leyland Lion TS6993 (number 13) was published in The Courier. Here's a bit more about the buses and a photograph of all 20 of them. In 1928 "Dundee Corporation Tramways" became "Dundee Corporation Transport" in recognition of a growing bus fleet. Twenty Leyland PLSC1 Lions entered service between 1 January 1927 and 8 August 1928 with an

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Continuing our theme of Dundee Buses in the 20th Century here's another two great photographs showing the first trolley bus in 1912 and the last double decker bus Tayside bought in 1989. Dundee was the first Scottish city, and one of the first in Britain, to operate a trolley bus service. It ran from 5 September 1912 until 13 May 1914, although at that time they were actually known as "railless

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To help illustrate recent bus reminiscences in The Courier, here's a photograph of a Thorneycroft Daring double-deck bus. These photographs formed part of our very successful exhibition that took place in October/November 2010. Once we are able to secure suitable premises we hope all 100 images will be back on display. Five Thornycroft Daring DD buses, bodied by Metro-Cammell, were added to

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To help illustrate recent bus reminiscences in The Courier, here's a pictures of Dundee's last Thorneycroft bus purchased - the Cygnet. These photographs formed part of our very successful exhibition that took place in October/November 2010. Once we are able to secure suitable premises we hope all 100 images will be back on display. The first four single-deck buses bought by Dundee in 1921 were

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To help illustrate recent bus reminiscences in The Courier, here's a couple of pictures of Dundee's AEC Q buses, bodied by Weymann. These photographs formed part of our very successful exhibition that took place in October/November 2010. Once we are able to secure suitable premises we hope all 100 images will be back on display. In August 1935 this AEC Q, bodied by Weymann, was demonstrated in

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Dundee Museum of Transport is delighted to have received a five-figure sum from the Dundee Historic Environment Trust supported by Historic Scotland to fund a full feasibility study of the former Tram Depot in Forfar Road, Dundee. This money is in addition to that already received from Destination Dundee for the same purpose. James F. Stephen Architects will now carry out the full study on

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Dundee Museum of Transport (DMofT) has been very fortunate to secure temporary premises in the West End of the City. This will give us much needed space as we continue to work towards acquiring the former Tram Depot in Forfar Road, Maryfield. The owner of the premises, which was formerly used as a laundry, has generously offered us the premises without charge and this will allow DMofT to create

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I have now had a letter of confirmation that DMofTs application for membership has now been been approved by the Board of Museums Galleries Scotland. This is a huge step forward for us in terms of being recognised as a committed and serious group based in Dundee who are determined that this area should have a Transport Museum that will be worthy of our city and is well presented and admired by

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Hello all I have been called by an old pal of mine Keith who runs the Armstrong Siddeley club in Scotland. What he is proposing is that on Sunday May 15Th May his club will bring 8 / 10 cars through to Dundee and we, using all our contacts and groups get as many cars and unusual vehicles together and we all meet at Discovery point( I have spoken to them and they support this idea) We get as

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Kenny Mac and myself went on a scouting mission up to Portlethan last night (16th Nov) to see how this collection (we had been told a "small" collection) worked. Wow .. These were pristine vehicles in the very best of surroundings. Pampered springs to mind and believe me the vehicles deserve it. They have all been restored to top condition and the way they are being looked after they will

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A number of contributors very generously gave us permission to display their photographs in our recent exhibition and it's only right we acknowledge them here. Many thanks then to: George Bett, Dick Gilbert, John Law, Andrew Macintosh, Donald MacRae, Paul S A Redmond, Nettletea, North East Bus Photos, Derek Simpson, Donald Stirling, Taybus Vintage Vehicle Society (John Fraser, John Mackie and

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We are delighted with the number of people who have taken the time to contact us after viewing our first ever exhibition in Dundee's Central Library within the Wellgate Centre. Not only have we had a number of people wanting to help us in our quest to open a permanent Museum of Transport but we have also had a number of important items offered for future display. Due to the popularity of the

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When we were compiling the near 100 photographs for Dundee's City Buses in the 20th Century we were extremely lucky to have the support of many people who generously gave us permission to use their images. This allowed us to cover most of the important developments ranging from Scotland's first trolley bus service in 1912 through to Scotland's first low floor double deck bus in 1998. However

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After months of planning Dundee Museum of Transport's first exhibition in the Wellgate's Central Library opened on Friday 22 October and runs until Saturday 6 November 2010. Dundee's Lord Provost John Letford opened the exhibition by unveiling a special visitors book and said that the plans for a Transport Museum have the full support of Dundee City Council. Pictured below with Mr. Letford are

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Ten days ago we posted a picture of four buses parked in Maryfield Depot, the proposed home for Dundee Museum of Transport, and asked for the common link between all four. From the front are Daimler CVG6 number 184 ETS964 (new 1955), AEC Regent III number 137 CYJ252 (new 1953), Daimler CVD6 number 127 AYJ379 (new 1951) and Ailsa 300 WTS272T (new 1979, converted 1983). The link is that all four

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On Saturday 9 October 2010 Dundee's edition of The Courier newspaper publicised the Transport Museum's search for what happened to the Corporation Transport Department clock fixed to the side of the Caird Hall. We have checked with Dundee City Council's Museum and Art Galleries division and they have no record of it having been transferred to their care. Could it really just have been disposed

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Over the past few months I've been trawling through literally hundreds of photographs of Dundee's city buses from 1912 to 1998 for our forthcoming exhibition. It has been great seeing so many views from the past and hopefully you'll enjoy seeing a small selection of them in the Central Library from 22 October - 6 November 2010. However one picture in particular got me thinking. There used to be

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Last Sunday I posted a picture of 8 Daimler buses outside the Maryfield Dock Street depot and asked which one had been saved by the Taybus Vintage Vehicle Society for preservation. Well, the answer was number 161 PYJ461L as highlighted below. Now, here's another great line-up but this time inside Maryfield. What do the four buses have in common?   

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22nd October - 6th November 2010 For the first time since we were formed in February 2010 Dundee Museum of Transport is mounting an exhibition at Dundee's Central Library in the Wellgate Centre. This is our chance to share with you some aspects of Dundee's fascinating transport history. Read about Scotland's first passenger rail service. Did a Dundee man beat the Wright brothers to the first

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Saturday 4th of September was the official re-opening of Lochee's rejuvenated High Street. The Dundee Museum of Transport were approached by Dundee City Council, at short notice to see if we could possibly put on a display of interesting vehicles.We said we would do our best. So we set about contacting members and friends to see who was available to bring some of our vehicles along to set off

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Dundee Museum of Transport ran a competition when they were showing their vehicles at the Friends of Baxter Park fun day. It must have been a difficult one because from all the many entrants only one person got all the answers correct. Museum supporter Dean Hutton of Fintry is the mastermind who managed to follow all the clues online and give the right answers. The prize was a £20 voucher of the

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Work moves on apace with Mike's bus. Today we started two young lads from Claverhouse group stripping the old paint off and they are doing a fine job of it. Mike and Andrew have been working with them and the project is moving ahead at full speed. Jim Crowe's bus is almost finished as well and should be back on the road looking good as new very soon.   

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DMofT attended Baxter Park on Saturday for our first major event, the Friends of Baxter Park Fun Day. We brought the horse drawn ambulance and Ashford Litter as well as Barry's vintage Rover, a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow II and a Fleur-de Lis van (think Corporal Jones' van from Dad's Army painted bright yellow, kindly provided by committee member Brian Orr from Autorent). This created a

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Glamis Extravaganza 2010 went very well today. Barry Taylor, Chair of Taybus and his wife Sheila were attendance displaying their Rover in it's usual sparkling condition - Barry and Sheila looked no' bad as well! Jimmy and Terry towed up the Museum's Horse Drawn Ambulance with the Ashford Litter and it was well admired. People were so interested in the history of our two exhibits and totally

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New and updated images have now been added to our Gallery. In our Horse-drawn ambulance and Ashford Litter collection new exterior and interior pictures have been added along with some more of the Ashford Litter. In our Scottish Cup 2010 collection new images of the actual parade from Dundee's Hilton Hotel to City Square and Tannadice have also been added.  

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The Ashford Litter was invented by Sir John Furley and Paul Headley. It was a covered stretcher on wheels and this allowed the ill patient inside some degree of privacy whilst they were being taken to hospital.  The stamp celebrating the centenary of the St Johns Ambulance gives some idea of the litters age.  The inventor was one of the founders of the St Johns Ambulance brigade in 1887 and

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On Wednesday 9th of June 2010 an intrepid team set off from Bonny Dundee heading to The Granite city to Reclaim a relic of Dundee's past for our Museum. Or was that an Insipid team? Anyway we got there and trailered back a horse drawn Ambulance dating from the 1880s. It is in not too bad condition considering it had been left out in the elements for the past two years with only a torn tarp for

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On 2 June 2010 Dundee Museum of Transport was registered as a charity in Scotland number SC041529. Full details of this registration can be found on the OSCR (Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator) website. This very important development now allows us to move forward on many more fronts, including extensive fundraising activities.

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The Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland changed the status of the former Maryfield Tram Depot to "at risk" in March 2010. The reasons given for this escalation were: "The rear section of the South (Walrond Street) elevation has been removed (due to fire damage). There are a considerable number of plants growing in the mortar cracks on this elevation. Shards of brick are scattered along the

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In April 2010 National Express Dundee very generously agreed to donate Daimler CVG6 ETS 964 (fleet number 184) to the Taybus Vintage Vehicle Society. ETS 964 bus entered service with Dundee Corporation on 27 November 1955 and was withdrawn in September 1977. On Sunday 30 May 2010 the bus was brought back from the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum at Lathalmond to the Taybus premises for work to

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Great news. Dundee Museum of Transport has been awarded a grant of £2000 from the Innovation and Development fund for use toward a feasibility study. The letter states that demand for funding was very high in this round but the panel recognised the merit of our application. Pretty good as this was our very first application for funding of any kind. Bodes well for the future. More news

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Dundee Museum of Transport do a Time Team On 29th July 1943 Hurricane Fighter V7725 took off from Tealing air base. The pilot at the controls was 21 year old Sgt Roland Carpenter from Birmingham a trainee at Tealing. During the flight something went wrong (It is thought he blacked out) and the Aircraft dived nose first into the ground at Caird park Killing Sgt Carpenter. Following in the

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A selection of pictures taken during the preparation of TVVS's open-top bus for the cup-winner's parade have now been added to the gallery. If you have any pictures of the bus from the parade that we can add to the gallery please contact us.  

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On Sunday 22 May 1994, the day after winning the Scottish Cup, thousands of Dundee United supporters lined the streets to welcome the winning team back home. As is traditional the team travelled in an open-top bus which was part of the Tayside Public Transport fleet. Ailsa bus 300 (WTS272T) was modified by the company in their Maryfield depot in 1983 and is believed to be unique. Like all of

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The info here was originally posted by Brian, Doon the Toon, in the 3Js (DC Thomson's chat board) and the Dundee Forum. Some of the info comes from the video "Dundee Trams", released in 1996, the anniversary of the ending of Dundee's trams. From the 3Js When the use of trams was finally discontinued in 1956, the oldest one still working dated back to 1900, although rebuilt on more than one

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Trams The first municipal public transport in Dundee was operated by "Dundee & District Tramways Co Ltd". From 1877, these were generally horse-drawn, but by June 1885 steam cars with green and white livery were introduced. Unusually, the tram lines were publicly built and owned, although initially leased by police commissionaires to private companies. All routes came under direct municipal

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Unveiled on Sunday 4 April 2010 the Dundee Museum of Transport banner featured seven images from Dundee's transport heritage. Following requests for more details the seven original images used for the banner have now been added to our gallery. If you have more photographs of Dundee's Transport heritage please get in touch through our contact us page.

Gordon Lowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06857556500460645477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978960414352029308.post-35438302211586340462010-04-23T19:34:00.004+01:002010-04-24T11:11:16.766+01:00

There has been quite a bit going on since the committee had a very enlightening and informative meeting with Jack Searle and two other members of the Dundee Civic Trust on 13th April 2010. Mr Searle was concerned that as yet we did not have a business plan in place and we to be fair did agree, but as usual these things come down to money. So it was with great surprise we noticed an article in

mrgoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05976796479976135781noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978960414352029308.post-37020235780800596402010-04-22T12:17:00.007+01:002010-04-25T16:08:32.638+01:00

National Express Dundee has very generously agreed to donate Daimler CVG6 ETS 964 (fleet number 184) to the Taybus Vintage Vehicle Society. This vehicle is currently on display at the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum at Lathalmond. ETS 964 bus entered service with Dundee Corporation on 27 November 1955 and was withdrawn in September 1977. During the mid-1990s this bus underwent a full restoration by

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