Tag: Leyland Titan PD2
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Premier Travel – Leyland Titan PD2 – DCK 212
Copyright John Stringer Premier Travel (Cambridge)1950Leyland Titan PD2/3East Lancs. FL27/26RD Photographed in Drummer Street, Cambridge in 1970, this was one of eleven former Ribble ‘White Lady’ PD2’s, new in 1950 and purchased by Premier Travel in 1962. Around the same time that Ribble were taking delivery of these, Premier Travel had taken into its fleet…
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Manchester Corporation – Leyland Titan – TNA 494 – 3494
Manchester Corporation1958Leyland Titan PD2/40Burlingham H37/28R – Leyland H32/28R Mention has been made elsewhere on this site of Manchester 3494 getting beheaded at the Bridgewater Canal and gaining the body from 3363, the chassis of which had been damaged in an accident.The above photo is a photo of 3494 with its original Burlingham body shown at…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan – LWE 123 – 623
Copyright Dave Careless Sheffield Corporation1949Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland H30/26R The scene on the parking area at Pond Street bus station in Sheffield, in August, 1959, featuring a line-up of Sheffield vehicles, including one of the NCB bodied Crossley DD42/5’s, put to work as a driver trainer after withdrawal, and painted in the reversed livery of the…
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Yorkshire Woollen District – Leyland Titan – 3156 WE – 135
Copyright John Stringer Yorkshire Woollen District1958Leyland PD2/30Roe H33/26RD Sheffield buses seem to have a very keen following on the site, so this ex-pat in disguise may be of interest.Around 1970/71 Yorkshire Woollen District were experiencing acute maintenance problems resulting in severe vehicle shortages, and a number of most unlikely temporary second-hand acquisitions appeared on the…
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Wigan Corporation – Leyland PD2/37 – FEK 9F – 46
Copyright John Stringer Wigan Corporation1968Leyland PD2/37Massey H37/27F Latterly, Massey double deck bodies adopted a much squarer outline than the curvy designs of previously, giving them a less stylish but nonetheless quite purposeful air. Here we see one of Wigan Corporation’s final batch of so-equipped PD2’s, about to depart the town’s bus station for Wrightington Hospital,…
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Pioneer Coaches – Leyland Titan PD2 – J 14672 – Oliver
Pioneer Coaches1958Leyland Titan PD2/41East Lancs H35/28R This vehicle was new to Lancaster City Transport and its registration was 128 DTD. After withdrawal it spent a period with OK Motor Services – Bishop Auckland, and used as a Driver Trainer. It then spent a period in Preservation with the Cumbria Bus Preservation Group before going to…
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Oldham Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – NBU 508 – 408
Oldham Corporation1957Leyland Titan PD2/20Crossley H33/28R This picture shows Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Transport XTC 855 and Oldham Corporation Passenger Transport NBU 508 in Oldham’s Wallshaw Street Depot. The photograph shows the cast fleet number plate that was a feature of the Oldham fleet at that time.In this view 408s Coat of Arms is on the lower deck…
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Yorkshire Traction – Leyland Titan PD2 – EHE 54 – 766
Yorkshire Traction Company Ltd1952Leyland Titan PD2/12Leyland H58R A friend of my then wife to be was married at Worsborough Church on a Saturday in July 1968. Whilst we were outside the church, this YTC decker appeared on the service from Barnsley to Worsborough Park. Although 16 years old by this time the Leyland bodywork still…
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Northern General – Leyland Titan – VUP 761 – 1761
Northern General Transport1957Leyland Titan PD2/12Park Royal H35/28RD Pictured outside Consett Depot, VUP 761 is a Park Royal bodied H35/28RD Leyland PD2/12, it was the first in a batch of ten delivered in 1957 – VUP 761/70; We have seen Northern General Transport vehicles with the open platform version of this type of Park Royal body…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – OWB 866 – G56
Sheffield Corporation1952Leyland Titan PD2/10Leyland (previously H33/26R) This is my only photo of G56 in action doing what it did so often in the 1960s, recovering an errant PDR1/2 Atlantean in this case on a very wet day in Leopold Street, Sheffield.G56 was converted from fleet number 666 as a gritter/tow wagon in 1966. Three of…