Tag: Leyland Titan PD2
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Northern General – Leyland Titan PD2/3 – CCN 139 – 2080
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. The Northern General Transport Company1951Leyland Titan PD2/3Leyland H33/26R This is a photo of a very typical all Leyland Titan of the period the only thing that would be different to a thousand other all Leyland Titans would be the layout of…
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Halifax Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2/37 – CJX 323C – 283
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Halifax Corporation Transport and Joint Omnibus Committee1965Leyland Titan PD2/37Weymann H36/28F Here we have one of Halifax corporations work horse Titans on a winters day. If memory serves me correctly they had very good heaters and were usually very warm although they…
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Rawtenstall Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2/12 – RTC 822 – 18
Photographs copyright G Walker. Rawtenstall Corporation1953Leyland Titan PD2/12Leyland H31/26R This Titan had a Leyland Metal frame Highbridge body which I think was the ultimate in half cab double deckers especially on a PD 2/12. The first shot shows the vehicle when I had repainted it back to its original Rawtenstall Corporation livery whilst the second…
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Ideal Service – Leyland Titan PD2 – YWT 572
Lower deck facing forward Lower deck facing rearward Upper deck facing forward Upper deck facing rearward Ideal Service (R Taylor & Sons)1959Leyland Titan PD2 (on older Tiger PS1 chassis)Roe L27/28R My thanks to Robert Gomersall for these excellent internal shots of a newly delivered Roe bodied Titan to R Taylor & Sons of Cudworth near…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – KWA 545 – 545
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1947Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland H30/26R This is an all Leyland (H30/26R) PD2/1 of the first batch of 20 delivered to Sheffield in October 1947. These were withdrawn between 1963 and 1965 but then nine of them were reinstated and lasted until 1966. In May 1966 The Leeds and District Transport News came…
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Yorkshire Woollen District – Leyland Titan – UTF 930 – 773
Copyright Bob Gell Yorkshire Woollen District1954Leyland Titan PD2/20MCW H34/29R The above shot was sent to me by Bob Gell with the following comment: There is correspondence under the Yorkshire Woollen District Tiger PS1 posting about this vehicle – I took the attached photo in July 1969 at Dewsbury Bus Station. I’m intrigued by the total…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – PWA 258 – 158
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1953Leyland PD2/12Weymann H32/26R Sheffield operated a number of occasional services to small villages and hamlets to the north west of the City. Ewden Valley Village lay about a mile off the main Sheffield to Stocksbridge route 57 via a Sheffield Corporation Waterworks private road and was primarily home to workers…
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PMT – Leyland Titan PD2/20 – 203 BEH – L679
Copyright Ian Wild Potteries Motor Traction1957Leyland Titan PD2/20Willowbrook L27/28R This bus was new to Baxters of Hanley as their fleet number 11 in March 1957 and was acquired by PMT when they bought out the Baxter business in December 1958. It was somewhat different from the contemporary PMT purchased Leylands having a concealed radiator and…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2/20 – YWB 294 – 1294
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1957Leyland PD2/20ECW H31/28R Sheffield Joint Omnibus Committee took delivery of eight Leyland PD2/20 in 1957 of which five had Eastern Coachworks bodies and the remaining three were bodied by Roe.The purchase of the three B fleet and two C fleet ECW bodied buses was made possible by the connection with the…
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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…