Tag: Leyland Titan PD2
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Northern General – Leyland Titan – VUP 761 – 1761
Northern General Transport1957Leyland Titan PD2/12Park Royal H35/28RD Pictured outside Consett Depot, VUP 761 is a Park Royal bodied H35/28RD Leyland PD2/12, it was the first in a batch of ten delivered in 1957 – VUP 761/70; We have seen Northern General Transport vehicles with the open platform version of this type of Park Royal body…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – OWB 866 – G56
Sheffield Corporation1952Leyland Titan PD2/10Leyland (previously H33/26R) This is my only photo of G56 in action doing what it did so often in the 1960s, recovering an errant PDR1/2 Atlantean in this case on a very wet day in Leopold Street, Sheffield.G56 was converted from fleet number 666 as a gritter/tow wagon in 1966. Three of…
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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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Southdown – Leyland Titan PD2 – MUF 456 – 756
Southdown Motor Services Ltd1953Leyland Titan PD2/12Northern Counties H30/26RD Taken in the summer of 1963 in the Old Steine area of Brighton this photo is of Southdown 756 one of a batch of ten Leyland PD2/12’s with Northern Counties H30/26RD bodies No’s 755-764 delivered in 1953. These always appeared wider and heavier than any of the…
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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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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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Birkenhead Corporation – Leyland Titan – FBG 910 – 10
Birkenhead Corporation1958Leyland Titan PD2/40Massey H31/28R Birkenhead 10 entered service in January 1958 with Birkenhead Corporation Transport. It has bodywork by Massey Brothers of Wigan which had been a major supplier of bus bodies to Birkenhead for various chassis since 1931. From 1957 to 1967 Birkenhead had almost totally standardised on the Leyland PD2s with Massey…
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Blackburn Corporation – Leyland Titan – PCB 25 – 25
Blackburn Corporation – Blackburn Borough Transport1962Leyland Titan PD2A/24East Lancs H35/28R The local government reorganisation of 1974 resulted in the merger of the municipal fleets of Blackburn and Darwen. The initial livery was a compromise, using Darwen’s red and Blackburn’s green, although the shades of these colours were rather brighter than those previously used. The combined…
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Newport Corporation – Leyland Titan – PDW 484 – 178
Newport Corporation1958Leyland Titan PD2/40Longwell Green H30/28R I don’t recall seeing any example of Longwell Green bodywork on here, so here it is. This Leyland Titan PD2/40 was new to Newport as their number 178 in 1958. Seating arrangement is H30/28R. An unusual feature is the upward bow of the canopy line. This picture was taken…
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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…