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Ribble – Leyland Titan TD7 – RN 8979 – 2323
Ribble Motor Services 1940 Leyland Titan TD7 Leyland L27/26R I cannot now remember where in 1960 I took this rather sad picture of RN 8979, a former Ribble Leyland TD7 with Leyland L27/26R bodywork, or who the operator then was. The old telephone code HIL (for Hillside) covered the Barnt Green area of Birmingham, which…
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Bournemouth Corporation – Leyland Titan TD5 – FEL 214 – 14
Copyright Ray Soper Bournemouth Corporation 1939 Leyland Titan TD5 Weymann FO58R This shot is from the Ray Soper -Gallery’ contribution A Trolleybus tour in Bournemouth click on the title if you would like to view his Gallery and comments to it. The shot is shown here for indexing purposes but please feel free to make…
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Turners of Chorley – Leland Titan TD5 – RN 8642
Turners of Chorley 1939 Leland Titan TD5 (1939) Alexander (1949) L27/26R I went on a bus club trip on this bus to visit the bus depot in Leyland Lancashire of John Fishwick & Sons. Fishwicks were and still are a large independent operator with services in the Leyland, Chorley and Preston area. This bus was…
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Tynemouth and District – Leyland Titan TD5 – FT 4498 – 98
Copyright Unknown Tynemouth and District 1938 Leyland Titan TD5 Weymann H??F More from my youth. 98 was one of eight 1938 forward entrance Weymann bodied Leyland TD5’s delivered to the Northern General subsidiary of Tynemouth and District. They were FT 4496/4503 numbers 96/103. About 1950 in common with many pre war vehicles they were given…
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Plymouth City Transport – Leyland Titan – ADR 813 – 141
Plymouth City Transport 1938 Leyland Titan TD5c Leyland L53R The chassis of ADR 813 was new to Plymouth City Transport in 1938, but it received its present Leyland L53R body in 1953. As all I have read about Leyland’s body manufacturing facilities says they finished in 1953, this must, surely, have been one of their…
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Charlton-on-Otmoor Services – Leyland TD – FKO 223 – 293
Charlton-on-Otmoor Services 1939 Leyland TD5 Weymann H28/26R Not one of my best pictures, I fear, but the Comet S camera did not cope well with action shots. Seen on its way out of Oxford in 1960 is FKO 223, a Leyland TD5 with Weymann H28/26R bodywork. This bus was delivered in 1939 to Chatham &…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland TD4 – RV 9404 – 150
Copyright A M Lambert Portsmouth Corporation 1937 Leyland Titan TD4 Cravens H26/24R Having dabbled with Leyland TD1 & 2’s, Crossley Condors, an AEC Regent and some TSM’s, with bodies spread amongst Short, Park Royal, Leyland and English Electric, CPPTD settled on a large order for 30 Leyland TD4’s with Cravens’ bodies, to the same pattern…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland Titan – RV 6358/67 – 5/7
Portsmouth Corporation 1935 Leyland Titan TD4 English Electric O26/24R Here are two of the Portsmouth Corporation venerable TD4 open top buses. When delivered in 1935, this batch had English Electric bodies of H26/24 configuration, but four of these were rebuilt as O26/24R in 1953. No.5, RV 6358, formerly No.115, and No.7, RV 6367, previously No.124,…
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Cumberland – Leyland Titan – BRM 596 – 291
Cumberland Motor Services 1936 Leyland Titan TD4 ECW L27/28R (1950) Before the advent of the Tilling Group era, and the inevitable Bristol/ECW combination for most vehicles, Cumberland had a large fleet of Leyland chassis, and the Royal Tigers seem to have been the last. BRM 596 is a Leyland Titan TD4 with the chassis dating…
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East Kent – Leyland Titan TD4 – JG 7017
East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd. 1936 Leyland Titan TD4 ECW L27/28R In 1936, East Kent received twenty examples of the Leyland TD4, JG 7010-29, all fitted with Brush L27/26R bodywork with curiously outmoded piano front destination displays (though these were rebuilt with conventional destination indicators before the outbreak of WW2). They were immediately followed…