Tag: Portsmouth Corporation
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One Small Step for a Portsmouth Passenger
A submission a short time ago referred to a Halifax Corporation single decker which was delivered with a front entrance and centre exit. It was a Leyland Leopard L1 with a Weymann B34D body. The contributor and several others commented that this was unusual at the batch’s time of delivery, and that later conversion to…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Tilling-Stevens E60A6 – RV1147 – 84
Copyright G E Baddeley Portsmouth Corporation 1932 TSM (Tilling-Stevens) E60A6 English Electric H26/24R CPPTD lent seven TSM’s and three Leyland TD1’s to supplement the shortage of LPTB’s vehicles. Parked at the Red Deer pub, Croydon, alongside two Ford Y’s and an Austin 14, Portsmouth Corporation’s TSM (Tilling-Stevens) E60A6 is very much on foreign territory, in…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Thornycroft J – BK 2986 – 10
Portsmouth Corporation 1919 Thornycroft J Dodson O16/18RO BK 2986 is a Thornycroft J, built in 1919 for Portsmouth Corporation. It originally had a Wadham O16/18RO seater body but was rebodied in 1926 with an ex London General AEC B 1920 Dodson O16/18RO body. Having been built in Basingstoke, it is fitting that she is seen…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland TD4 – RV 9404 – 150
Copyright A M Lambert Portsmouth Corporation 1937 Leyland Titan TD4 Cravens H26/24R Having dabbled with Leyland TD1 & 2’s, Crossley Condors, an AEC Regent and some TSM’s, with bodies spread amongst Short, Park Royal, Leyland and English Electric, CPPTD settled on a large order for 30 Leyland TD4’s with Cravens’ bodies, to the same pattern…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland Titan – RV 6358/67 – 5/7
Portsmouth Corporation 1935 Leyland Titan TD4 English Electric O26/24R Here are two of the Portsmouth Corporation venerable TD4 open top buses. When delivered in 1935, this batch had English Electric bodies of H26/24 configuration, but four of these were rebuilt as O26/24R in 1953. No.5, RV 6358, formerly No.115, and No.7, RV 6367, previously No.124,…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland TD1 – RV 715/6 – 7/8
Portsmouth Corporation 1931 Leyland Titan TD1 Park Royal H26/24R After purchasing its double-deck Karrier WL6/2’s in 1927/28, Portsmouths next double-deck purchase was seven petrol-engined Leyland TD1’s numbered 4-10. Numbers 4-6 and 9-10 had Short Bros. bodies like that of the diesel AEC Regent posted elsewhere on this site. A diesel Crossley Condor also had a…
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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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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – GTP 976 – 59
Portsmouth Corporation1952Leyland Titan PD2/10Leyland H30/26R Seen on 13 August 1967 beside the superb gardens at Southsea seafront is Portsmouth Corporation No.59, GTP 976, one of a batch of twenty five Leyland PD2/10 buses with Leyland H30/26R bodywork delivered in 1952. No.59 was withdrawn in 1969, and the last of this batch went in 1971. My…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland Titan PD1 – DTP 822 – 188
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Portsmouth Corporation1948Leyland Titan PD1/1AWeymann H30/26R # One of 19 identical PD1/1A’s delivered in 1948, 188 still looks very smart in its glossy maroon and white paint, with roof of grey, paint dipping at the corners a la London Transport’s post-war STL…
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Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland Cheetah – BTP 946 – 46
Copyright P J Marshall Portsmouth Corporation1939Leyland Cheetah LZ4Wadham B32R Portsmouth Corporations fleet number 46 was the last of a batch of 6 Leyland LZ4 Cheetahs, 41-46 (BTP 941-946), with locally-built Wadham bodywork, new in 1939. 41 and 42 were withdrawn in 1941, after suffering war damage. This view of 46 at Eastney Depot was taken…