Author: admin
-
South Notts – Leyland Titan PD2 – MRR 338 – 48
Copyright John Stringer South Notts Bus Co Ltd1951Leyland Titan PD2/12Leyland L53R A fine array of Leyland Titans caught in Loughborough Bus Station in early 1970. On the left is South Notts. 48 (MRR 338) a PD2/12 with Leyland L27/26R body new in 1951. Behind it is one of their PD3’s with unusual Northern Counties forward…
-
Tynemouth and District – Leyland Titan PD2 – AFT 51 – 221
Photograph by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Tynemouth and District1957Leyland Titan PD2/12Willowbrook H35/28R I think many of the job lot of anonymous photos I purchased must have come from the same source as the same locations crop up on a regular basis. Once again we are at the…
-
Solent Blue Line – Leyland Titan PD2 – 86 GFJ – 01
Copyright Pete Davies Solent Blue Line1963Leyland Titan PD2A/30Massey H31/26R This PD2A/30 was new to Exeter City Transport in 1963, with Massey H57R bodywork. In this first view she was with Solent Blue Line, a subsidiary of Southern Vectis, established by two disgruntled managers of Southampton Citybus in 1987. Most of the time, 01 was the…
-
Premier Travel – Leyland Titan PD2 – DCK 212
Copyright John Stringer Premier Travel (Cambridge)1950Leyland Titan PD2/3East Lancs. FL27/26RD Photographed in Drummer Street, Cambridge in 1970, this was one of eleven former Ribble ‘White Lady’ PD2’s, new in 1950 and purchased by Premier Travel in 1962. Around the same time that Ribble were taking delivery of these, Premier Travel had taken into its fleet…
-
Manchester Corporation – Leyland Titan – TNA 494 – 3494
Manchester Corporation1958Leyland Titan PD2/40Burlingham H37/28R – Leyland H32/28R Mention has been made elsewhere on this site of Manchester 3494 getting beheaded at the Bridgewater Canal and gaining the body from 3363, the chassis of which had been damaged in an accident.The above photo is a photo of 3494 with its original Burlingham body shown at…
-
Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan – LWE 123 – 623
Copyright Dave Careless Sheffield Corporation1949Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland H30/26R The scene on the parking area at Pond Street bus station in Sheffield, in August, 1959, featuring a line-up of Sheffield vehicles, including one of the NCB bodied Crossley DD42/5’s, put to work as a driver trainer after withdrawal, and painted in the reversed livery of the…
-
Yorkshire Woollen District – Leyland Titan – 3156 WE – 135
Copyright John Stringer Yorkshire Woollen District1958Leyland PD2/30Roe H33/26RD Sheffield buses seem to have a very keen following on the site, so this ex-pat in disguise may be of interest.Around 1970/71 Yorkshire Woollen District were experiencing acute maintenance problems resulting in severe vehicle shortages, and a number of most unlikely temporary second-hand acquisitions appeared on the…
-
Wigan Corporation – Leyland PD2/37 – FEK 9F – 46
Copyright John Stringer Wigan Corporation1968Leyland PD2/37Massey H37/27F Latterly, Massey double deck bodies adopted a much squarer outline than the curvy designs of previously, giving them a less stylish but nonetheless quite purposeful air. Here we see one of Wigan Corporation’s final batch of so-equipped PD2’s, about to depart the town’s bus station for Wrightington Hospital,…
-
Pioneer Coaches – Leyland Titan PD2 – J 14672 – Oliver
Pioneer Coaches1958Leyland Titan PD2/41East Lancs H35/28R This vehicle was new to Lancaster City Transport and its registration was 128 DTD. After withdrawal it spent a period with OK Motor Services – Bishop Auckland, and used as a Driver Trainer. It then spent a period in Preservation with the Cumbria Bus Preservation Group before going to…
-
Oldham Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – NBU 508 – 408
Oldham Corporation1957Leyland Titan PD2/20Crossley H33/28R This picture shows Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Transport XTC 855 and Oldham Corporation Passenger Transport NBU 508 in Oldham’s Wallshaw Street Depot. The photograph shows the cast fleet number plate that was a feature of the Oldham fleet at that time.In this view 408s Coat of Arms is on the lower deck…