Tag: MCW
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Leicester City Transport – Leyland Titan – GRY 50D – 50
Copyright Michael Crofts Leicester City Transport1966Leyland Titan PD3A/1MCW H41/33R I became a bus driver in 1965 and was driving for PMT Stoke driving Regents, Guy, Daimler, Reliance and of course Leyland PD/3s. So as time went by I ended up working for Midland Red North. I was promoted to Driving Instructor in 1989 and to…
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Blackpool Corporation – Leyland Titan – LFR 528F – 528
Blackpool Corporation1968Leyland Titan PD3A/1MCW H41/30R LFR 528F is one of a batch of 40 Titan PD3A/1 vehicles with MCW H71R bodywork, delivered to Blackpool Corporation in 1967 and 1968. Some of the later 1968 vehicles had the G suffix to their registrations. 528 is seen in the old almost-overall cream livery at Fleetwood on 15…
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Blackpool Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2/27 – PFR 334 – 334
Photograph by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Blackpool Corporation1959Leyland Titan PD2/27Metro Cammell Weymann FH35/28R Blackpool were really into the full frontal look I think it was to make them look like the trams that Blackpool is famous for. Before these normal looking full frontal Titans they had other…
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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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Tyneside – Leyland Titan – GTY 163 – 39
Tyneside Omnibus Company1954Leyland Titan PD2/12MCW H32/26R GTY 169; 39, one that Chris Youhill will no doubt recognise, but not in this livery. It was one of nine H32/26R MCW Orion bodied Leyland PD2/12’s delivered to Tyneside in 1954, GTY 169/177 numbered 39/47. Shortly after they were delivered, the number plates were moved from the radiator…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland Titan – ORV 989 – 112
Portsmouth Corporation1958Leyland Titan PD2/40MCCW H30/26R ORV 989 is another in the long line of Portsmouth buses with the registration numbers in the ‘high 900’ series. It dates from 1958 and is a Leyland Titan PD2/40 with Metropolitan Cammell H56R body. It is seen in the St Catherine’s park and ride car park during the King…
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Manchester Corporation – Leyland Panther – GND 87E – 87
Manchester City Transport1967Leyland Panther PSUR1/1MCW B40D It may seem barely credible now, but in the early 1960s Manchester Corporation was planning a future without double-deckers. They had realised (possibly before anyone else) that the days of the bus conductor were numbered, but at that time only a single-decker could be operated legally without one. As…
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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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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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LUT – Guy Arab IV – 534 RTB – 43
Lancashire United Transport1961Guy Arab IV MCCW H41/32R 534 RTB is a Guy Arab IV from the Lancashire United fleet, once considered by many to be the biggest of the Independents. Regular contributor to this site Neville Mercer, among others, disagrees. It has a Metropolitan Cammell body, to the H73R layout, and was new in 1961. We…