Tag: Leyland
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD3 – 4462 WE – 462
Copyright ‘unknown’ if you know please get in touch Sheffield Corporation1959Leyland PD3/1Roe H39/30R This was one of the first 30ft long double deckers for Sheffield and was one of a batch of 30 similar buses. In a typically perverse way these buses, all for the A fleet, were numbered 461-476 and 901-914. Logic suggests they…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan – 4461 WE – 461
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1959Leyland Titan PD3/1Roe H39/30R An earlier Sheffield posting showed sister bus 462 when brand new outside the Roe factory. Here is 461 towards the end of its life on 13th July 1974 passing the Three Merry Lads pub returning from an occasional extension of the 51 service to Wyming Brook. By…
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South Yorkshire – Leyland Titan PD3/1 – 2600 WW – 83
Copyright Brian Lunn South Yorkshire Motors 1960Leyland Titan PD3/1Roe L31/32RD In the late 1970’s I purchased South Yorkshire Motors Leyland PD3 2600WW at the urging of a number of people who offered help in preserving this vehicle. The bus was running in service the day before I took it to where I was keeping it. I…
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Leeds City Transport – Leyland Titan – 5221 NW – 221
Copyright Chris Hough Leeds City Transport1958Leyland Titan PD3/5Roe H38/32R This handsome Leyland Titan PD3/5 was the Roe exhibit at the 1958 Earls Court Show It was one of 70 bought by Leeds for tramway replacement The batch were used extensively on the Moortown – Middleton group of former tram routes and most of them lasted…
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Stratford Blue – Leyland Titan – 537 EUE – 25
Copyright Roger Cox Stratford-upon-Avon Blue Motors Ltd1963Leyland Titan PD3/4Northern Counties H41/32F My second of three Stratford Blue pictures this one is of 537 EUE, an exposed radiator Leyland Titan PD3/4 of 1963 with a Northern Counties H41/32F body.The fleet list at this site :- www.petergould.co.uk/gives the fleet number of this bus as No.37, but the…
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Stratford Blue – Leyland Titan – 669 HNX – 2
Copyright Roger Cox Stratford-upon-Avon Blue Motors Ltd1963Leyland Titan PD3A/1Willowbrook H41/32F This the third and last shot in my series of Stratford Blue vehicles it is fleet number 2 registration 669 HNX. A Leyland Titan PD3A/1 with a Willowbrook highbridge body dating from 1963. Interestingly as my second posting of the exposed radiator Stratford Blue Titan…
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Leicester City Transport – Leyland Titan PD3 – TBC 164 – 164
Copyright Chris Hebbron Leicester City Transport1958Leyland Titan PD3/1Willowbrook H41/33R LCT bought an eclectic mix of chassis and bodywork for its fleet over the decades, but settled on just three (164-166) tin-fronted Leyland Titan PD3/1’s, with attractive Willowbrook bodywork, in 1958. 165 and 166 were withdrawn in 1972 and 1975 respectively, with 164 being withdrawn in…
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Preston Corporation – Leyland Titan PD – BCK 367C – 61
Copyright Pete Davies Preston Corporation1954Leyland Titan PD2/10 – PD3Leyland – Preston Corporation H38/32F BCK 367C started life as FRN 740 a 1954 PD2/10 with a Leyland H32/29R body which has been rebuilt to a PD3 format. She now resides in the North West Museum of Road Transport in St Helens, but was in need of…
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Southdown – Leyland Titan PD3 – HCD 369E – 369
Copyright Diesel Dave Southdown Motor Services Ltd1967Leyland Titan PD3/4Northern Counties FH39/30F The posting a little while ago of the Bradford Daimler CVG6 was a reminder that although both they and Leyland were then manufacturing rear-engined double decker chassis in large numbers, not all operators were yet willing to make the change to them. Southdown’s later…
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Wakefields Motors – Leyland Titan PD3 – AFT 935 – 235
Photograph by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Wakefields Motors LtdLeyland Titan PD3/41958Metro-Cammell ‘Orion’ H41/32R This 1958 Metro-Cammell Orion bodied Leyland PD3/4 was one of 12 in the Tynemouth and Wakefields fleet. They were AFT 924/35 fleet numbers 224/35; the last two carried the Wakefields name. The Northern General…