Tag: Leeds City Transport
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Moortown to Shadwell Bus, Leeds
Can you tell me anything about the bus above? I know the number plate dates between 1904 and 1929, but I would like to narrow the date down if possible. I understand that these buses had a petrol engine which was used to drive a dynamo which, in turn, fed an electric motor driving the…
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Prewar Rear Engined 40 Seat Single Decker
A friend has asked me to try and find out if anyone knows of such a vehicle as a demonstrator – make and specification unknown – which is believed to have run for Leeds City Transport in 1938 or 1939.I know nothing of any such episode or vehicle and I wonder if anyone has any…
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Mill Transport Bus ANW 679
Just sorting through some of my old reject photos when I came across this one of ANW 679. It’s one of a batch which for some reason all ended up with the top deck cut short on the photo. Hence the reject. However, the passage of time makes it interesting. Written on the back in…
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Leeds City Transport
Last week I found an album of old photos on a mart stall at Todmorden. Very interesting find.Here are a few shots of some Leeds City Transport vehicles, there is no markings claiming copyright. Roy Dodsworth11/2015 Registration MNW 720 fleet number 720 was a 1949 Crossley DD42/7 with Crossley H30/26R bodywork. Registration XUM 860 fleet…
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Why I Became a Bus Enthusiast or “Buses Galore on Route 54” Part 3
To read Part 2 Click here or Part 1 Click here Until recently, the Corn Exchange was the terminal point for West Riding’s unusual centre-entrance AEC Regent IIIs running over what was once their tram route all the way from there to Rothwell, Wakefield and Sandal until 1932. Buses serving these former tram routes had…
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Why I Became a Bus Enthusiast or “Buses Galore on Route 54” Part 2
Not read Part 1 Click here As we got nearer to the city centre, at Wellington Bridge, we joined Tong Road. Here we saw further Leeds buses, mainly on the former tram routes from Whingate and New Inn, using a mix of Roe or Weymann-bodied AECs and Leylands, as well as routes 42 and 66…
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Why I Became a Bus Enthusiast or “Buses Galore on Route 54” Part 1
In the 1950s, use of public transport was a daily experience for most people. As a child, I obviously used the buses, trams and trains in my area for school and leisure, but to understand why this daily use converted into enthusiasm is not easy to answer. However, I’m convinced that a major factor in…
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Right on the Button
Now back in nineteen seventy, when I was ne’r but twentyI had call for swift employment, as was bestLeaving College prematurely, it was only proper surelyAs my love life had given birth to an extra quest With wife and baby on the way, food, clothes and rent to have to payResponsibilities quickly piled upon my…
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Leeds City Transport – Leyland Titan – 5221 NW – 221
Copyright Chris Hough Leeds City Transport1958Leyland Titan PD3/5Roe H38/32R This handsome Leyland Titan PD3/5 was the Roe exhibit at the 1958 Earls Court Show It was one of 70 bought by Leeds for tramway replacement The batch were used extensively on the Moortown – Middleton group of former tram routes and most of them lasted…
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Leeds City Transport – Leyland Titan PD2/1 – NNW 380 – 380
Leeds City Transport1950Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland H30/26R This Leeds City Transport bus is at the Rivelin Dams, Norfolk Arms terminus of Sheffield service 54 whilst on a tour of Sheffield routes on 19th June 1966 organised by The Leeds and District Transport News (still in production today as Metro Transport News). Sheffield 545 which appeared on…