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Bedwas & Machen – Leyland Titan PD3 – PAX 466F – 6
Bedwas & Machen Urban District Council1968Leyland Titan PD3/4Massey L35/33RD PAX 466F was new to Bedwas & Machen in June 1968 and carries a Massey lowbridge body L35/33RD. She was one of the runners at Bus & Coach Wales in September 2014 carrying some healthy loads on some difficult terrain. The event is held in Merthyr…
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Southdown – Leyland Titan – 415 DCD – 415
Southdown Motor Services Ltd1964Leyland Titan PD3/4Northern Counties FCO39/30F This Titan PD3/4 in the Southdown fleet is seen in somewhat strange surroundings. She is adjacent to a public park outside Dock Gate 4 in Southampton on 23 August 1982 while on hire to Southampton City Transport on park and ride duty in connection with the Tall…
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Caerphilly UDC – Leyland Titan – GNY 432C – 32
Caerphilly Urban District Council1965Leyland Titan PD3/4Massey L35/33RD Here we have another Urban District Council vehicle this time it is a Massey lowbridge-bodied Leyland Titan PD3/4 which was new to Caerphilly Urban District Council in October 1965 as fleet number 32. With chassis number L42817 and body number 5911 this bus looks in fine fettle in…
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Southdown – Leyland Titan – BUF 279C – 279
Southdown Motor Services Ltd1965Leyland Titan PD3/4Northern Counties FH39/30F BUF 279C fleet number 279 is nearest the camera in this view taken at Dunsfold on 10 April 2011. Her close cousin, 972 CUF fleet number 972, is alongside. Both are Leyland titan PD3/4 vehicles with Northern Counties FH69F bodies. 972 was new in 1964 and 279…
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Dews Coaches – Leyland PD3 – FTF 702F
Dews Coaches1967Leyland PD3/4East Lancs H41/32F This PD3 was delivered to Ramsbottom UDC in November 1967. The chassis is variously described as PD3/4 or PD3/14, the confusion arising because Leyland reclassified its chassis codes at around that time. PD3/4 is probably correct. The body is by East Lancs and was delivered as H41/32, but, again, the…
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Huddersfield Corporation – Leyland Titan – WVH 419 – 419
Huddersfield Corporation1963Leyland Titan PD3A/2Roe H39/31F Since the formation of the partly railway-owned Huddersfield Joint Omnibus Committee in May 1930, the arrangement had been that tram and trolleybus routes, irrespective of whether they ran within or without the borough, were to remain the business of the Corporation, and that all motorbus routes would be run by…
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Lancaster City Transport – Leyland Titan – LHG 537
Lancaster City Transport1961Leyland Titan PD3/6East Lancs H41/32F At Local Government Reorganisation in 1974, Lancaster merged with Morecambe & Heysham to form a ‘new’ Lancaster City Transport. The operator found itself short of modern, serviceable, vehicles and some were acquired from Maidstone Borough, some from what had become Burnley & Pendle, one from Merthyr Tydfil, and…
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Western SMT – Leyland Titan PD3 – RCS 382 – 1684
Western Scottish Motor Traction Co. Limited1961Leyland Titan PD3A/3Alexander L35/32RD RCS 382 is a Leyland Titan PD3A/3 with Alexander L67RD body, new to Western in 1961. It was still owned by Western when the 2012 PSVC list was prepared, but with the ‘Stagecoach’ fleet number of 19982 instead of her original. In this view, on Middle…
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Rossendale Transport – Leyland Titan – XTF 98D – 45
Rossendale Transport1966Leyland Titan PD3/4East Lancs H41/32F XTF 98D is a Leyland Titan PD3/4 with East Lancs H73F body, new to Haslingden Corporation in September 1966. Two years later, Haslingden and Rawtenstall combined their fleets to form Rossendale Transport, in which guise we see it here. It is taking part in the King Alfred running day…
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Ribble – Leyland Titan – RCK 920 – 1775
Ribble Motor Services1962Leyland Titan PD3/5Metro-Cammell FH41/31F In 1956 the UK maximum legal length for double deck buses was extended to 30 ft, and Leyland quickly responded with the PD3 chassis, essentially an elongated version of the PD2. Ribble ordered a fleet of 105 synchromesh gearbox PD3/4 machines distinguished by handsome Burlingham FH41/31F bodywork featuring a…