Grimsby Corporation bus JV 9900 heading along Cleethorpe Road in the direction of Park Street February 1956.

A original, deckled edged, amateur photograph, not a postcard.

Ross Bros., motor engineers was located at 182/184 Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby. This is where the Jet filling station is today. Strand Street School is behind. The Albion pub is next door at 178/180 Cleethorpe Road. The building on the right of the photo appears to be the premises of Pearl Assurance Co. Ltd., at 183/5 Cleethorpe Road.

Bus JV 9900 was one of three A.E.C. Regent III buses with Roe bodies and London Transport type radiators that were delivered in December 1946. They entered service in January 1947. They were transferred from Grimsby Corporation to Grimsby-Cleethorpes Transport on 1st January 1957. All three buses were broken up and scrapped at Searby, near Brigg (Hambleton’s Scrapyard) by August 1967.