Tag: Leyland Titan PD1
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Smith’s Luxury Coaches – Leyland Titan – JUG 623
Copyright Ray Soper Smiths Luxury Coaches (Reading) Ltd1946Leyland Titan PD1Roe H56RD This shot is from the Ray Soper gallery contribution titled “Smith’s Luxury Coaches of Reading” click on the title if you would like to view his Gallery and comments.The shot is shown here for indexing purposes but please feel free to make any comment…
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Smiths Luxury Coaches – Leyland Titan PD1 – JUG 623
Photograph taken by Stuart Wyss Smiths Luxury Coaches (Reading) Ltd1946Leyland Titan PD1Roe H31/25R When I started at Smiths Coaches, Reading, in May 1964 we had 4 batches of double-deckers and a solitary unroofed tree-lopper. More on the others later, but JUG 623 was one of half a dozen ex-Leeds Corporation Leyland PD1s dating from 1946…
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Bristol Omnibus – Leyland PD1/A – LAE 13 – C4044
Bristol Omnibus1947Leyland PD1/AECW H30/26R Chris Youhill has mentioned that Samuel Ledgard bought and ran a few of these vehicles in the early 1960’s, which prompted me to rummage around and find this photo, which I took at the Bristol Bus Rally in 1977. I don’t believe that LAE 13 was a Ledgard vehicle, although LAE…
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East Yorkshire – Leyland Titan PD1 – JAT 455 – 487
Copyright both shots Bob Gell East Yorkshire Motor Services1949Leyland PD1Roe H?RSeen on 25 June 1958 at the North Landing terminus of route 31 from Bridlington are these classic members of the East Yorkshire fleet. At that time, I remember them as regular performers both on the North Landing service and the then separate service to the…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland Titan PD1 – DTP 822 – 188
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Portsmouth Corporation1948Leyland Titan PD1/1AWeymann H30/26R # One of 19 identical PD1/1A’s delivered in 1948, 188 still looks very smart in its glossy maroon and white paint, with roof of grey, paint dipping at the corners a la London Transport’s post-war STL…
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Warrington Corporation – Leyland Titan – EED 8 – 24
Warrington Corporation1947Leyland Titan PD1Leyland H30/26R EED 8 is a Leyland Titan PD1 and according to others on the web it is said to have a Leyland/Alexander H56R body new in 1947 to Warrington as their number 24. Maybe Leyland were busy at the time and it was a Leyland body assembled by Alexander.It is at…
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Southdown – Leyland Titan PD1 – GUF 669 – 269
Southdown Motor Services1946Leyland Titan PD1Park Royal H26/26R Taken with my rather primitive Comet S camera in Brighton in 1960, this picture is not one of my best. There were twenty five of these PD1s delivered between June and September 1946, and 269, GUF 669, arrived with Southdown in July. 269 was withdrawn in 1963 and…