Tag: Leyland Titan TD4
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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…