The Ipswich Buses garage in Constantine Road, Ipswich – 16 May 1992 (162-20)

Saturday 16 May 1992 – The portals of the Ipswich Buses garage in Constantine Road, Ipswich.

In the doorway of the right hand shed is Roe bodied Leyland Atlantean 14 (RDX 14R) which was new in December 1976 with a mini-bus parked behind.

In the left hand shed is a similar double decker to 14 along with 148 (WOI 607), one of the six Alexander (Belfast) bodied Leyland B21s acquired from Ulsterbus/Citybus, Northern Ireland in 1991. A closer photograph and more detailed description can be found via this link: www.ipernity.com/doc/davidslater-spoddendale/46963308

The garage was established to house the fleet of Ipswich Corporation and does so now for Ipswich Buses, a descendant of Ipswich Corporation. The Corporation operated trams in its early days but by 1923 was experimenting with trolleybuses on a route from Cornhill in the town centre and the railway station, a distance of about 0.75 mile/1.2 km.

The trolleybus route was successful and after the trams ceased running in 1926 the Corporation chose the trolleybus exclusively for its service network. It was as late as 1950 before the first motor bus joined the fleet although trolleybuses continued to run until August 1963.