Tag: Leyland Titan PD2
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Leeds City Transport – Leyland Titan PD2/1 – NNW 379 – 379
Copyright Chris Hough Leeds City Transport1950Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland H30/26R This batch of sixty Leyland bodied Leyland Titans were delivered to Leeds in 1949-1950. Most of the batch were allocated to the Bramley depot for most of their careers providing most of the duties on the 54, 77 and 23 services as well as the Bramley…
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Newcastle Corporation – Leyland Titan – LVK 11 – 359
Photograph by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Newcastle Corporation1949Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland L27/26R Yet again another shot from the job lot of shots I bought at the market I’m afraid there is no information on the photo. But staying on the low bridge theme of Newcastle Corporation that…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – NWE 561 – 361
From the Tom Robinson Collection Sheffield Corporation1952Leyland Titan PD2/12Mann Egerton H30/26R There have been many previous references to Sheffield PD2s including those bodied by Leyland, Weymann/MCW, Roe and ECW but as far as I know, the small but rare order for two buses from Mann Egerton hasn’t been mentioned. These buses enjoyed the usual thirteen…
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Preston Corporation – Leyland Titan PD – BCK 367C – 61
Copyright Pete Davies Preston Corporation1954Leyland Titan PD2/10 – PD3Leyland – Preston Corporation H38/32F BCK 367C started life as FRN 740 a 1954 PD2/10 with a Leyland H32/29R body which has been rebuilt to a PD3 format. She now resides in the North West Museum of Road Transport in St Helens, but was in need of…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – NWE 591 – 391
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1952Leyland Titan PD2/12Roe H33/25R The recent posting of a Sheffield Mann Egerton bodied PD2 fleet number 362 provided some interesting information on new bus orders about that time and here is one of the Roe bodied PD2/12 ordered at the same time as the Mann Egerton pair. These were very elegant…
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Bradford Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – EKY 569 – 34
Copyright Ian Wild Bradford Corporation1950Leyland Titan PD2/3Leyland H33/27R This Driver Training bus is seen shining in the sunshine outside Thornbury Depot at an open day in September 1973 a few months prior to the formation of West Yorkshire PTE. It appears to be in splendid condition for its age. Records show its withdrawal from normal…
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Hunter’s – Leyland Titan – ETY 912 – 18
Copyright John Kaye H W Hunter and Sons1951/2Leyland Titan PD2/12Leyland H32/28RD Standing at it’s terminus in Northumberland Square North Shields, this is one of two Leyland Titans (DJR 681 being the other) from the small independent of H W Hunter and Sons who were based in the Northumberland mining village of Seaton Delaval. The one…
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South Notts – Leyland Titan PD2 – MRR 338 – 48
Copyright John Stringer South Notts Bus Co Ltd1951Leyland Titan PD2/12Leyland L53R A fine array of Leyland Titans caught in Loughborough Bus Station in early 1970. On the left is South Notts. 48 (MRR 338) a PD2/12 with Leyland L27/26R body new in 1951. Behind it is one of their PD3’s with unusual Northern Counties forward…
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Tynemouth and District – Leyland Titan PD2 – AFT 51 – 221
Photograph by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Tynemouth and District1957Leyland Titan PD2/12Willowbrook H35/28R I think many of the job lot of anonymous photos I purchased must have come from the same source as the same locations crop up on a regular basis. Once again we are at the…
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Solent Blue Line – Leyland Titan PD2 – 86 GFJ – 01
Copyright Pete Davies Solent Blue Line1963Leyland Titan PD2A/30Massey H31/26R This PD2A/30 was new to Exeter City Transport in 1963, with Massey H57R bodywork. In this first view she was with Solent Blue Line, a subsidiary of Southern Vectis, established by two disgruntled managers of Southampton Citybus in 1987. Most of the time, 01 was the…