Tag: Leyland
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – KWA 545 – 545
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1947Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland H30/26R This is an all Leyland (H30/26R) PD2/1 of the first batch of 20 delivered to Sheffield in October 1947. These were withdrawn between 1963 and 1965 but then nine of them were reinstated and lasted until 1966. In May 1966 The Leeds and District Transport News came…
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Yorkshire Woollen District – Leyland Titan – UTF 930 – 773
Copyright Bob Gell Yorkshire Woollen District1954Leyland Titan PD2/20MCW H34/29R The above shot was sent to me by Bob Gell with the following comment: There is correspondence under the Yorkshire Woollen District Tiger PS1 posting about this vehicle – I took the attached photo in July 1969 at Dewsbury Bus Station. I’m intrigued by the total…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – PWA 258 – 158
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1953Leyland PD2/12Weymann H32/26R Sheffield operated a number of occasional services to small villages and hamlets to the north west of the City. Ewden Valley Village lay about a mile off the main Sheffield to Stocksbridge route 57 via a Sheffield Corporation Waterworks private road and was primarily home to workers…
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PMT – Leyland Titan PD2/20 – 203 BEH – L679
Copyright Ian Wild Potteries Motor Traction1957Leyland Titan PD2/20Willowbrook L27/28R This bus was new to Baxters of Hanley as their fleet number 11 in March 1957 and was acquired by PMT when they bought out the Baxter business in December 1958. It was somewhat different from the contemporary PMT purchased Leylands having a concealed radiator and…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2/20 – YWB 294 – 1294
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1957Leyland PD2/20ECW H31/28R Sheffield Joint Omnibus Committee took delivery of eight Leyland PD2/20 in 1957 of which five had Eastern Coachworks bodies and the remaining three were bodied by Roe.The purchase of the three B fleet and two C fleet ECW bodied buses was made possible by the connection with the…
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Leeds City Transport – Leyland Titan PD2/1 – NNW 380 – 380
Leeds City Transport1950Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland H30/26R This Leeds City Transport bus is at the Rivelin Dams, Norfolk Arms terminus of Sheffield service 54 whilst on a tour of Sheffield routes on 19th June 1966 organised by The Leeds and District Transport News (still in production today as Metro Transport News). Sheffield 545 which appeared on…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – RWJ 713 – 713
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1954Leyland Titan PD2/12Weymann H32/26R It’s 27th April 1968 and Sheffield 713 turns from Leopold Street terminus into West Street on another trip out into the country at Rivelin Dams.713 was one of the batch of 56 (the largest single batch of buses purchased by Sheffield) delivered in March/April 1954 to replace…
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Stockport Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – EDB 547 – 293
Copyright Roger Cox Stockport Corporation1951Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland H30/26R I note with some surprise that Stockport Corporation does not feature in the list of operators on the website, so perhaps this picture of two of Stockport’s excellently proportioned all Leyland PD2s might redress this omission. I believe that I took this photograph, which dates from 1969,…
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Oldham Corporation – Leyland Titan – PBU 943 – 443
Copyright Stephen Howarth Oldham Corporation1958Leyland Titan PD2/30Roe H37/28R I have been having a rummage through a few pictures and came across this one. Whilst it is not the best photograph in the world, I am sure it is of historical interest.The vehicle on the right is one of Oldham Corporations 1958 “Tin front” Titans fleet…
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Oldham Corporation – Leyland Titan – PBU 951 – 451
Copyright David Butterworth Oldham Corporation1958Leyland Titan PD2/30Roe H35/28R I Would like to contribute the above photo of Oldham Corporation 451 taken after its first repaint – so minus the waistrail white stripe and the intricate lining out (abandoned when these vehicles were repainted in 1965). The interior paintwork was changed also from the original hammered…