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  • Southdown – Leyland Tiger – HCD 449 – 1249

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    Southdown Motor Services Ltd1947Leyland Tiger PS1/1ECW C31R HCD 449 is a Leyland Tiger PS1/1 with an ECW C31R bodywork (with door!) and dates from 1947, when it joined Southdown. We see it at an open day at the Brijan Tours depot in Curdridge – just outside Botley – on 22 April 2012. These open days…

  • H W Hunter and Sons – Leyland Tiger – CNL 425 22

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    H W Hunter and Sons1948Leyland Tiger PS1/1Plaxton FC33F CNL 425, a PS1/1 Leyland Tiger, seen here sporting a FC33F Plaxton body of 1956 vintage. It was one of two identical 1948 vehicles delivered new to H W Hunter and Sons of Seaton Delaval, the other being CTY 457. When new they had C33F Burlingham bodies,…

  • Birmingham City – Leyland Tiger – JOJ 231 – 2231

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    Birmingham City Transport1950Leyland Tiger PS2/1Weymann B34F JOJ 231 is something of a rarity for the Birmingham fleet – a single decker! It is a Leyland Tiger PS2/1 with Weymann B34F body, new in 1950. We see it in the Weymouth rally on 1 July 1979 – where the combination of Kodachrome II film and lighting…

  • Caerphilly UDC – Leyland Tiger – LTX 311 – 1

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    Caerphilly Urban District Council1952Leyland Tiger PS2/5Massey B35F Fleet number 1 in the small Caerphilly concern was allocated to this less than common Massey-bodied single-deck Leyland PS2/5. Chassis number is 520623 and the body is number 2083 B35F. This image was taken at Bus & Coach Wales in Merthyr Tydfil 14/09/2014. Photograph and Copy contributed by…

  • Green – Leyland Tiger – PRE 900

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    Green (Brierley Hill)1948Leyland Tiger PS1/1Burlingham C33F Seen in the summer of 1961 on a rather run down estate beside Mitcham Common is PRE 900, a Leyland Tiger PS1/1 delivered in July 1948 to Green of Brierley Hill, near Dudley, West Midlands. The C33F body is by Burlingham. I do not know its subsequent history and…

  • London Transport – Leyland Tiger – JXC 288 – TD 95

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    London Transport1949Leyland Tiger PS1Mann Egerton B30F Following the cessation of hostilities in 1945, the London Passenger Transport Board found itself seriously short of serviceable vehicles, partly through enemy action but equally because of the time expired nature of much of the fleet. To compound the problem, 55 T type AEC Regals and 20 Leyland Cubs…