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Yorkshire Traction – Leyland Titan PD2 – EHE 54 – 766
Yorkshire Traction Company Ltd1952Leyland Titan PD2/12Leyland H58R A friend of my then wife to be was married at Worsborough Church on a Saturday in July 1968. Whilst we were outside the church, this YTC decker appeared on the service from Barnsley to Worsborough Park. Although 16 years old by this time the Leyland bodywork still…
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Northern General – Leyland Titan – VUP 761 – 1761
Northern General Transport1957Leyland Titan PD2/12Park Royal H35/28RD Pictured outside Consett Depot, VUP 761 is a Park Royal bodied H35/28RD Leyland PD2/12, it was the first in a batch of ten delivered in 1957 – VUP 761/70; We have seen Northern General Transport vehicles with the open platform version of this type of Park Royal body…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – OWB 866 – G56
Sheffield Corporation1952Leyland Titan PD2/10Leyland (previously H33/26R) This is my only photo of G56 in action doing what it did so often in the 1960s, recovering an errant PDR1/2 Atlantean in this case on a very wet day in Leopold Street, Sheffield.G56 was converted from fleet number 666 as a gritter/tow wagon in 1966. Three of…
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Wallasey Corporation – Leyland Titans – BHF 497/AHF 854 – 78/58
Wallasey Corporation – 1952 – Leyland Titan PD2/12 – Weymann H30/26R Wallasey Corporation – 1951 – Leyland Titan PD2/1 – Metro Cammell H30/26R The 75 buses of the quaintly named Wallasey Corporation Motors were absorbed – along with those of the Corporations of Birkenhead and Liverpool – into the newly formed Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive on 1st December…
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Southdown – Leyland Titan PD2 – MUF 456 – 756
Southdown Motor Services Ltd1953Leyland Titan PD2/12Northern Counties H30/26RD Taken in the summer of 1963 in the Old Steine area of Brighton this photo is of Southdown 756 one of a batch of ten Leyland PD2/12’s with Northern Counties H30/26RD bodies No’s 755-764 delivered in 1953. These always appeared wider and heavier than any of the…
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Moor-Dale – Leyland Titan PD2 – KGU 60
Moor-Dale Coaches1949Leyland Titan PD2Metro Cammell H30/26R Moor-Dale coaches were based in Longbenton to the North East of Newcastle. I don’t know if it was a takeover or a merger, but they became Moor-Dale Curtis. The fleet was moved to the much larger Curtis depot in Dudley, a former mining village in Northumberland which about seven…
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Tyneside – Leyland Titan – GTY 163 – 39
Tyneside Omnibus Company1954Leyland Titan PD2/12MCW H32/26R GTY 169; 39, one that Chris Youhill will no doubt recognise, but not in this livery. It was one of nine H32/26R MCW Orion bodied Leyland PD2/12’s delivered to Tyneside in 1954, GTY 169/177 numbered 39/47. Shortly after they were delivered, the number plates were moved from the radiator…
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Birkenhead Corporation – Leyland Titan – FBG 910 – 10
Birkenhead Corporation1958Leyland Titan PD2/40Massey H31/28R Birkenhead 10 entered service in January 1958 with Birkenhead Corporation Transport. It has bodywork by Massey Brothers of Wigan which had been a major supplier of bus bodies to Birkenhead for various chassis since 1931. From 1957 to 1967 Birkenhead had almost totally standardised on the Leyland PD2s with Massey…
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Blackburn Corporation – Leyland Titan – PCB 25 – 25
Blackburn Corporation – Blackburn Borough Transport1962Leyland Titan PD2A/24East Lancs H35/28R The local government reorganisation of 1974 resulted in the merger of the municipal fleets of Blackburn and Darwen. The initial livery was a compromise, using Darwen’s red and Blackburn’s green, although the shades of these colours were rather brighter than those previously used. The combined…
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Newport Corporation – Leyland Titan – PDW 484 – 178
Newport Corporation1958Leyland Titan PD2/40Longwell Green H30/28R I don’t recall seeing any example of Longwell Green bodywork on here, so here it is. This Leyland Titan PD2/40 was new to Newport as their number 178 in 1958. Seating arrangement is H30/28R. An unusual feature is the upward bow of the canopy line. This picture was taken…