Tag: Liverpool Corporation
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Liverpool City Transport – Leyland Titan – VKB 711 – L255
Liverpool City Transport1956Leyland Titan PD2/20Crossley H33/29R New in November 1956, L255 was one of a batch of 65 Leyland Titan PD2/20 chassis that had been ordered back in 1955, partly to enable the 19 & 44 tram routes to be converted to bus operation. It was originally painted in the Dark green livery with two…
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Liverpool City Transport – AEC Regent V – VKB 774 – A176
Liverpool City Transport1957AEC Regent VMetro Cammell Weymann H33/29R A unique radiator grill I think don’t know why as the standard grill looked much better than this tin look. I also think how much better the livery would have been if there was a nice cream band between the upper and lower deck, there was far…
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Liverpool City Transport – AEC Regent III – JKF 933 – A690
Liverpool City Transport1950AEC Regent IIIWeymann H??R This bus is pre 1951 because all buses in the Liverpool fleet after that date were 8ft wide and had two side by side destination boards with route numbers above a quick link here to view an example. The bodies were supplied from Weymann as frame only they were…
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Liverpool City Transport – AEC Regent III – NKD 540 – A40
Copyright Alan Murray-Rust Liverpool City Transport1954AEC Regent III 9613SSaunders-Roe H32/26R Liverpool City Transport’s A40 can reasonably be stated to be a unique bus. As far as I can make out, it was one of just two double-deck buses for the UK market with bodies built as a Saunders-Roe product (the other being its twin, A39),…