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  • Barrow Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – CEO 956 – 169

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    Barrow In Furness Corporation1958Leyland Titan PD2/40Park Royal H33/28R CEO 956 is a Leyland PD2/40 with Park Royal H61R bodywork from 1958. She was built for Barrow In Furness Corporation (fleet number 169) and we see her parked on Middle Walk, Blackpool, on 29 September 1985. This is a date some of the readership will recognise,…

  • Lancaster City Transport – Leyland Titan – 998 AKT – 998

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    Lancaster City Transport1957Leyland Titan PD2/30Massey H33/28R 998 AKT is a Leyland Titan PD2/30, was new to Maidstone Corporation in 1957, with fleet number 8. She has a Massey H61R body. In 1975, she and three sisters returned to their birthplace in the north west to join Lancaster City Council’s Transport Department, after the merger with…

  • Southport Corporation – Leyland Titan – CWM 154C – 54

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    Southport Corporation1965Leyland Titan PD2/40Weymann O37/27F New to Southport Corporation in 1965, with fleet number 54. She is a Leyland Titan PD2/40 with Weymann O64F body, converted from H64F. When Southport was absorbed into Merseyside, there was uproar among the natives, who wanted to remain in Lancashire. The place does, after all, have a Preston postcode…

  • Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – LWE 113 – 613

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    Sheffield Corporation1949Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland H30/26R There’s a bit of a bus jam in Sheffield High Street on 9th October 1965 as 613, one of the large batch of A fleet all Leyland PD2s leaves the stand for a trip to Millhouses. It takes three Inspectors to peruse the Alexander Regent V in the background, hope…

  • Birmingham City – Leyland Titan PD2 – HOV 685 – 1685

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    Birmingham City Transport1948Leyland Titan PD2/1Brush H30/24R Here is a Leyland Titan PD2/1 with Brush H54R body, to Birmingham’s then standard design. She dates from 1948 and we see her in the Weymouth rally on 1 July 1979. She began her service at Yardley Wood depot and, Malcolm Keeley reports in his book in the Glory…

  • Ribble – Leyland Titan PD2 – DCK 219 – 1248

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    Ribble Motor Services1951Leyland Titan PD2/3East Lancs FCL27/22RD This vehicle is easily recognisable as one of Ribble’s famous ‘White Ladies’. She has a Leyland Titan PD2/3 chassis, with East Lancs FCL49RD body. She dates from 1951 and, at the time of this photograph, she was with Quantock. I understand she has now passed to Sir Brian…

  • Birmingham City – Leyland Titan – HOV 685 – 1685

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    Birmingham City Transport1948Leyland Titan PD2/1Brush H30/24R HOV 685 is a Leyland Titan PD2/1 with Brush H54R body, to Birmingham’s then standard design. She dates from 1948 and we see her in the Weymouth rally on 1 July 1979. She began her service at Yardley Wood depot and, Malcolm Keeley reports in his book in the…

  • Leeds City Transport – Leeds Titan – UUA 207 – 207

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    Leeds City Transport1955Leeds Titan PD2/11Roe H33/25R This looks like a typical view from Yorkshire but these Leeds City Transport buses are interloping in Lancashire. Taken around 1970 the two Leyland Titans are seen in Rochdale climbing up from Sudden on Manchester Road heading for the town centre. The occasion was the Trans Pennine Rally from…

  • Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland Titan – ORV 989 – 112

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    Portsmouth Corporation1958Leyland Titan PD2/40MCCW H30/26R ORV 989 is another in the long line of Portsmouth buses with the registration numbers in the ‘high 900’ series. It dates from 1958 and is a Leyland Titan PD2/40 with Metropolitan Cammell H56R body. It is seen in the St Catherine’s park and ride car park during the King…

  • Ideal Service – Leyland Titan – CCK 668 – 16

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    Copyright Unknown Ideal Service (R Taylor & Sons)1949Leyland Titan PD2/3Brush L27/26R New to Ribble Motor Services (No 2691) in 1949 passed to Delaine, Bourne in 1961 as their (No 54) where it served 5 years when it then passed to R Taylor & Sons Cudworth in February 1966 (No 16) part of the Ideal Service…