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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland TD1 – RV 715/6 – 7/8
Portsmouth Corporation 1931 Leyland Titan TD1 Park Royal H26/24R After purchasing its double-deck Karrier WL6/2’s in 1927/28, Portsmouths next double-deck purchase was seven petrol-engined Leyland TD1’s numbered 4-10. Numbers 4-6 and 9-10 had Short Bros. bodies like that of the diesel AEC Regent posted elsewhere on this site. A diesel Crossley Condor also had a…
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Southdown – Leyland Titan – UF 4813
Southdown Motor Services 1929 Leyland Titan TD1 Brush O27/24RO Seen at the Southgate roundabout on the A23 Crawley By Pass during the 3rd May 1970 HCVC Rally is UF 4813, a 1929 Leyland Titan TD1 with the Brush open top O27/24RO open staircase body that it carried from new – it is not a conversion.…
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County Motors – Leyland Titan PD3A/1 – AVH 635B – 105
County Motors1964Leyland Titan PD3A/1Roe H42/31F Another County Motors of Huddersfield vehicle this time a Leyland Titan PD3A/1. The PD3 indicated that the bus was 30 foot long rather than 27 foot of which all the PD2s were. The A after the 3 indicates an enclosed radiator made mainly of fibre glass and this style was…
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Halifax Corporation – Leyland Titan PD3/4 – TCP 55 – 55
Photo by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Halifax Corporation Transport and Joint Omnibus Committee1964Leyland Titan PD3/4Weymann H40/32F Here is the 30ft Weymann bodied Titan I mentioned yesterday it has a more square appearance I will let you decide which you prefer. This Titan was passed on to WYPTE…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD3 – 4462 WE – 462
Copyright ‘unknown’ if you know please get in touch Sheffield Corporation1959Leyland PD3/1Roe H39/30R This was one of the first 30ft long double deckers for Sheffield and was one of a batch of 30 similar buses. In a typically perverse way these buses, all for the A fleet, were numbered 461-476 and 901-914. Logic suggests they…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan – 4461 WE – 461
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1959Leyland Titan PD3/1Roe H39/30R An earlier Sheffield posting showed sister bus 462 when brand new outside the Roe factory. Here is 461 towards the end of its life on 13th July 1974 passing the Three Merry Lads pub returning from an occasional extension of the 51 service to Wyming Brook. By…
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South Yorkshire – Leyland Titan PD3/1 – 2600 WW – 83
Copyright Brian Lunn South Yorkshire Motors 1960Leyland Titan PD3/1Roe L31/32RD In the late 1970’s I purchased South Yorkshire Motors Leyland PD3 2600WW at the urging of a number of people who offered help in preserving this vehicle. The bus was running in service the day before I took it to where I was keeping it. I…
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Leeds City Transport – Leyland Titan – 5221 NW – 221
Copyright Chris Hough Leeds City Transport1958Leyland Titan PD3/5Roe H38/32R This handsome Leyland Titan PD3/5 was the Roe exhibit at the 1958 Earls Court Show It was one of 70 bought by Leeds for tramway replacement The batch were used extensively on the Moortown – Middleton group of former tram routes and most of them lasted…
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Stratford Blue – Leyland Titan – 537 EUE – 25
Copyright Roger Cox Stratford-upon-Avon Blue Motors Ltd1963Leyland Titan PD3/4Northern Counties H41/32F My second of three Stratford Blue pictures this one is of 537 EUE, an exposed radiator Leyland Titan PD3/4 of 1963 with a Northern Counties H41/32F body.The fleet list at this site :- www.petergould.co.uk/gives the fleet number of this bus as No.37, but the…
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Stratford Blue – Leyland Titan – 669 HNX – 2
Copyright Roger Cox Stratford-upon-Avon Blue Motors Ltd1963Leyland Titan PD3A/1Willowbrook H41/32F This the third and last shot in my series of Stratford Blue vehicles it is fleet number 2 registration 669 HNX. A Leyland Titan PD3A/1 with a Willowbrook highbridge body dating from 1963. Interestingly as my second posting of the exposed radiator Stratford Blue Titan…