Tag: Leyland
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Wallasey Corporation – Leyland Atlantean – FHF 451 – 1
Wallasey Corporation Transport1958Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Metro-Cammell H44/33F Cheshire’s seaside resort is New Brighton, part of Wallasey. Wallasey is credited in some sources as having the first Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 in public service, and here is: FHF 451. It dates from 1958 and has a Metropolitan Cammell H77F body. A legend surrounds the peculiar colour. Many of…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland Atlantean – 224 BTP – 224
Portsmouth Corporation1963Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Metro Cammell H43/33F The production Atlantean appeared in 1958, but the early examples proved troublesome and expensive to maintain. Nevertheless, the concept appealed to several operators, and, by 1963, Portsmouth Corporation, long time devotees of the Leyland marque, must have thought the risk to be worthwhile, for it bought a batch of…
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Ribble – Leyland Atlantean – RRN 414 – 1814
Ribble Motor Services1962Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Weymann L39/33F Seen in August 1969 in less than pristine condition leaving Manchester’s Lower Mosley Street Bus Station (often confusing us slow witted southerners by appearing on bus destination blinds as “Manchester LMS”) is Ribble 1814, the last of a batch of fourteen Weymann bodied lowbridge Atlanteans on the original PDR1/1…
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B.O.A.C. – Leyland Atlantean – LYF 304D
British Overseas Airways Corporation1966Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1MCW CH38/16F In 1940, with Britain at war and civilian air traffic barely existent, Croydon based Imperial Airways formally subsumed the privately owned (though nationally subsidised) British Airways at Heston and became BOAC, though this had been the de facto situation since September 1939. At the end of the war,…
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Manchester Corporation – Leyland PDR1/1 – HVM 914F – 1014
Manchester Corporation1968Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Park Royal H45/28D One of the famous Mancunians which revolutionised the double deck bus in the late 60s is seen turning into Portland Street in May 1968 when just a couple of months old. The stunning livery brightened up Manchester – sad that they soon succumbed to SELNEC orange and white. Photograph…
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East Yorkshire – Leyland A13 – BT 8777 – 54
East Yorkshire Motor Services1923Leyland A13Leyland B26 As photography is my hobby I have been busy restoring the old family photographs and I came across the above shot of my father and the bus he drove, he is the tallest person in the photo, I hope the photo maybe of interest to you. During the First…
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J Fishwick & Sons – Leyland-MCW Olympian – 521 CTF – 7
J Fishwick & Sons – Leyland-MCW Olympian – 521 CTF – 7 J Fishwick & Sons1957Leyland-MCW Olympian LW1Weymann B44F This is sad to say the last week of operation for J Fishwick & Sons of Leyland, Lancashire so I thought it would only fitting for one of their vehicles to be posted this Sunday the…
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Oldham Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – NBU 508 – 408
Oldham Corporation1957Leyland Titan PD2/20Crossley H33/28R This picture shows Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Transport XTC 855 and Oldham Corporation Passenger Transport NBU 508 in Oldham’s Wallshaw Street Depot. The photograph shows the cast fleet number plate that was a feature of the Oldham fleet at that time.In this view 408s Coat of Arms is on the lower deck…
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Southdown – Beadle – Leyland – MUF 488 – 649
Southdown Motor Services Ltd1953Beadle – LeylandBeadle FB31F MUF 488 is one of those curious vehicles built by Beadles using Bedford or Leyland parts. The Leyland ones came from Tigers or Titans. In this case, the combination was delivered to Southdown in 1953, and has a FB31F body on TD5 running units. We see it outside…
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Sheffield Corporation – AEC Regent III – RWA 168 – 2168
Sheffield Corporation1953AEC Regent IIIRoe H33/25R Here we have two Sheffield Corporation work horses photographed on a very wet grey day. The Leyland is a Titan PD2/30 built 5 years later than the Regent it had a Weymann H31/28R body registration 4494 WB fleet number 494. It also had a concealed radiator which was nicknamed a…