Tag: Roe
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Huddersfield Corporation – Leyland Titan – WVH 419 – 419
Huddersfield Corporation1963Leyland Titan PD3A/2Roe H39/31F Since the formation of the partly railway-owned Huddersfield Joint Omnibus Committee in May 1930, the arrangement had been that tram and trolleybus routes, irrespective of whether they ran within or without the borough, were to remain the business of the Corporation, and that all motorbus routes would be run by…
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Yorkshire Woollen District – Leyland Titan – HD 8553 – 699
Yorkshire Woollen District Transport1963Leyland Titan PD2Roe H63R Now this gets interesting according to my book this is a 1950 Leyland Titan PD2/3 with a Roe H56R body. Well it is defiantly not a rear entrance that’s plain to see and the registration of just two letters I think came well before 1950. I think its…
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Halifax Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – CCP 162C – 62
Photo by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page Halifax Corporation Transport and Joint Omnibus Committee1965Leyland Titan PD2/37Roe H37/28F This photo is of a C. H. Roe Version of an Halifax Corporation Leyland Titan PD2/37. You can compare it to a Weymann bodied version tomorrow when there will be Leyland…
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Yorkshire Traction – Leyland Titan PD2 – VHE 193 – 1193
Yorkshire Traction1961Leyland Titan PD2 Roe H35/28F Here we are in Huddersfield again on the road where all the non Corporation buses had there terminus, although the odd one did sneak in now and then. I think it was Lord Street and the building on the left is the Parish Church, this is where I think all…
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Ideal Service – Leyland Titan PD2 – YWT 572
Lower deck facing forward Lower deck facing rearward Upper deck facing forward Upper deck facing rearward Ideal Service (R Taylor & Sons)1959Leyland Titan PD2 (on older Tiger PS1 chassis)Roe L27/28R My thanks to Robert Gomersall for these excellent internal shots of a newly delivered Roe bodied Titan to R Taylor & Sons of Cudworth near…
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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…
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Oldham Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – PBU 947 – 447
Copyright Roger Cox Oldham Corporation1958Leyland Titan PD2/30Roe H37/28R We don’t seem to have any colour pictures of Oldham buses on the site, so I am submitting these two shots, taken early in PTE days. By the time these pictures were taken, the Oldham livery had been further simplified by the elimination of the red stripe…
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East Yorkshire – Leyland Titan PD2 – NRH 219 – 608
Copyright John Stringer East Yorkshire Motor Services1953Leyland PD2/12Roe HBB56R Westwood Bus Station, Scarborough, photographed whilst on a family holiday in 1966.In the foreground 1953 Roe-bodied Leyland PD2/12 608 (NRH 219) is loading passengers for Bridlington, whilst behind lurks 1963 front-entrance Bridgemaster 749 (3749 RH). Opposite, laying over before snarling its way to Driffield, is 1960…
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Oldham Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – NBU 502 – 402
Copyright unknown. Oldham Corporation1957Leyland Titan PD2/20Roe H33/27R A couple of weeks ago I commented on the Pommard and Devon Cream livery introduced in 1966, after the very short lived “Blue” livery experiment with NBU 502 (Fleet No 402).Well here it is, seen in a rather grubby state, in Union Street, operating on the Service “A”…