Tag: Leyland
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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…
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London Transport – Leyland Titan TD2 – GX 131 – TD 85
Photograph by D W K Jones Permission to publish granted by Capital Transport Publishing London Transport 1932 Leyland Titan TD2 Birch H30/26R In my first supplementary comment on the London Transport low-bridge Daimlers with Duple bodies (posted here), I said the following: “A further look at D1’s lean-back, but ramrod-straight front, makes me recall the…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland TD1 – RV 715/6 – 7/8
Portsmouth Corporation 1931 Leyland Titan TD1 Park Royal H26/24R After purchasing its double-deck Karrier WL6/2’s in 1927/28, Portsmouths next double-deck purchase was seven petrol-engined Leyland TD1’s numbered 4-10. Numbers 4-6 and 9-10 had Short Bros. bodies like that of the diesel AEC Regent posted elsewhere on this site. A diesel Crossley Condor also had a…
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Southdown – Leyland Titan – UF 4813
Southdown Motor Services 1929 Leyland Titan TD1 Brush O27/24RO Seen at the Southgate roundabout on the A23 Crawley By Pass during the 3rd May 1970 HCVC Rally is UF 4813, a 1929 Leyland Titan TD1 with the Brush open top O27/24RO open staircase body that it carried from new – it is not a conversion.…
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County Motors – Leyland Titan PD3A/1 – AVH 635B – 105
County Motors1964Leyland Titan PD3A/1Roe H42/31F Another County Motors of Huddersfield vehicle this time a Leyland Titan PD3A/1. The PD3 indicated that the bus was 30 foot long rather than 27 foot of which all the PD2s were. The A after the 3 indicates an enclosed radiator made mainly of fibre glass and this style was…
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Halifax Corporation – Leyland Titan PD3/4 – TCP 55 – 55
Photo by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Halifax Corporation Transport and Joint Omnibus Committee1964Leyland Titan PD3/4Weymann H40/32F Here is the 30ft Weymann bodied Titan I mentioned yesterday it has a more square appearance I will let you decide which you prefer. This Titan was passed on to WYPTE…