Tag: Charlton-on-Otmoor Services

  • Charlton-on-Otmoor Services

    Where I grew up we had no Leyland Tiger Cubs around. I used to think of them as rather characterless boxes on wheels, but when I drove a couple (only once each) for Charlton-on-Otmoor Services, NE of Oxford, in the early seventies, I came to appreciate what a delightful machine they are. The impression was…

  • 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 &…