Tag: Metro-Cammell
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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…
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Ribble – Leyland Titan – RCK 920 – 1775
Ribble Motor Services1962Leyland Titan PD3/5Metro-Cammell FH41/31F In 1956 the UK maximum legal length for double deck buses was extended to 30 ft, and Leyland quickly responded with the PD3 chassis, essentially an elongated version of the PD2. Ribble ordered a fleet of 105 synchromesh gearbox PD3/4 machines distinguished by handsome Burlingham FH41/31F bodywork featuring a…
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Jersey Motor Transport – Leyland Titan – J 16522 – 21
Copyright Stephen Howarth Jersey Motor Transport1955Leyland Titan PD2/22Metro Cammell H31/26R When Leyland Motors finished building bus bodies, the Jersey Motor Transport Company went to M.C.W. for their next double deck bodies. Two were bought in 1955, the other being J 16521, fleet number 20. They were the first Double Decker’s in the fleet with ‘Tin…
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Wallasey Corporation – Leyland Titans – BHF 497/AHF 854 – 78/58
Wallasey Corporation – 1952 – Leyland Titan PD2/12 – Weymann H30/26R Wallasey Corporation – 1951 – Leyland Titan PD2/1 – Metro Cammell H30/26R The 75 buses of the quaintly named Wallasey Corporation Motors were absorbed – along with those of the Corporations of Birkenhead and Liverpool – into the newly formed Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive on 1st December…
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Moor-Dale – Leyland Titan PD2 – KGU 60
Moor-Dale Coaches1949Leyland Titan PD2Metro Cammell H30/26R Moor-Dale coaches were based in Longbenton to the North East of Newcastle. I don’t know if it was a takeover or a merger, but they became Moor-Dale Curtis. The fleet was moved to the much larger Curtis depot in Dudley, a former mining village in Northumberland which about seven…
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Manchester Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – JND 619 – 3218
Manchester Corporation1951Leyland Titan PD2/3Metro-Cammell H32/26R Seen in Piccadilly in August 1969 in the final months of Manchester Corporation ownership is No 3218, JND 619, one of a batch of Leyland PD2/3 buses purchased in 1951. Despite appearances, the bodywork is not by Crossley, being instead of the then standard Manchester design built by Metro-Cammell. Having…
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Yorkshire Traction – Leyland Tiger Cub – SHE 167 – 1179
Yorkshire Traction Company Ltd1960Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/1Metro-Cammell B45F This Yorkshire Traction Tiger Cub, 1179 (SHE 167) is seen in All Saints” Square, Rotherham at the loading barrier for service 27 to Barnsley via Hoyland, joint with Rotherham Corporation, in July 1962. The bus is in “Tracky’s” reversed livery of predominantly cream with red trim, reserved…
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Tynemouth and District – Leyland Atlantean – CFT 640 – 240
Copyright Ronnie Hoye Tynemouth and District Transport Co Ltd1960Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Metro Cammell H44/34F Not very good photo of one of the first Leyland Atlantean PDR 1’s to be delivered to Percy Main depot, they were MCW bodied, and if I’m correct, they were the first in the Northern group but I don’t think they had…
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Manchester Corporation – Leyland Atlantean – UNB 629 – 3629
Manchester CorporationLeyland Atlantean PDR1/11959Metro-Cammell H44/33F I feel prompted to make a first contribution to your fascinating forum after stumbling across it whilst looking for information concerning the jointly operated Stockport/Manchester Corporations’ Service 16 Chorlton – Stepping Hill.I was born in Chorlton, attended the grammar school there and recall the day my mother took me for…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Atlantean – 655 BWB – 225
Sheffield Corporation1962Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Metro Cammell H44/33F This bus was one of a batch of nine supplied new to the B fleet as fleet number 1355. This batch were extensively used from new on service 41 to Hackenthorpe where there was a large new housing development. They were the first rear engined double deckers for the…