Tag: Leyland Titan TD4
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Portsmouth Corp’n 1936/37 Leyland TD4/Cravens 131-160 RV 9385 – RV 9414
In 1936-1937, Portsmouth Corporation took delivery of 30 buses of the above type, which had all, bar one (a bomb casualty), been whittled away between 1955 and 1960. I moved to Portsmouth in 1956, but spent much of this period in the RAF/London and so don’t ever recall seeing one of this type. I’m wondering…
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A Freak Accident
A nasty accident which occurred in 1947 in Bondgate, Otley. This fine Samuel Ledgard all Leyland TD4 was just pulling over to the right to turn into the Crossgate Bus Station when the lorry emerged from the narrowest of alleys with this ridiculous and illegally unmarked pole protruding into the road as shown. Mercifully no…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland TD4 – RV 9404 – 150
Copyright A M Lambert Portsmouth Corporation 1937 Leyland Titan TD4 Cravens H26/24R Having dabbled with Leyland TD1 & 2’s, Crossley Condors, an AEC Regent and some TSM’s, with bodies spread amongst Short, Park Royal, Leyland and English Electric, CPPTD settled on a large order for 30 Leyland TD4’s with Cravens’ bodies, to the same pattern…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland Titan – RV 6358/67 – 5/7
Portsmouth Corporation 1935 Leyland Titan TD4 English Electric O26/24R Here are two of the Portsmouth Corporation venerable TD4 open top buses. When delivered in 1935, this batch had English Electric bodies of H26/24 configuration, but four of these were rebuilt as O26/24R in 1953. No.5, RV 6358, formerly No.115, and No.7, RV 6367, previously No.124,…
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Cumberland – Leyland Titan – BRM 596 – 291
Cumberland Motor Services 1936 Leyland Titan TD4 ECW L27/28R (1950) Before the advent of the Tilling Group era, and the inevitable Bristol/ECW combination for most vehicles, Cumberland had a large fleet of Leyland chassis, and the Royal Tigers seem to have been the last. BRM 596 is a Leyland Titan TD4 with the chassis dating…
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East Kent – Leyland Titan TD4 – JG 7017
East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd. 1936 Leyland Titan TD4 ECW L27/28R In 1936, East Kent received twenty examples of the Leyland TD4, JG 7010-29, all fitted with Brush L27/26R bodywork with curiously outmoded piano front destination displays (though these were rebuilt with conventional destination indicators before the outbreak of WW2). They were immediately followed…
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Lytham St Annes Corporation – Leyland Titan TD – BTF 25 – 45
Lytham St Annes Corporation 1937 Leyland Titan TD4c Leyland FH30/24R The Leyland Titan TD4 replaced the TD3 in production from 1935, differing from its predecessor fundamentally only in the replacement of the three servo vacuum braking system by vacuum/hydraulic operation. The Lysholm Smith torque converter, designed in 1928, was quite popular in the TD3c -Gearless…