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A 1955 PD2 stands at Ribbleton in August 1976.
A Matthew Brown brewery 'Lion Ales' pub behind. The brewery is long gone. Their beer wasn't really very good (IMO!) - but you can bet your life it was better than whatever rubbish the multinationals foist on the locals now - assuming the pub is still open.
Eastbourne Corporation Leyland Titan PD2's 73 BJK673D & 82 DHC782E. Seen at Eastbourne station as part of Eastbourne Bus Rally 2015.
Crossley style bodywork adorns Manchester's No, 3239, a 1951 Leyland PD2/3 at Miles Platting on 2/3/68.
Looking positively sparkling as it graces the streets of Skipton (UK), is this beautifully restored Leyland Titan PD2/1. It has a Leyland lowbridge body, resulting in an overall height of 13'5" as opposed to the UK standard 14'6".
The bus was new to Todmorden Joint Omnibus Committee in March 1948, UK registered GWU 12 and allocated Fleet No.2.
The bus was withdrawn from service in 1970 and moved immediately into preservation, ultimately joining the West Yorkshire Transport Heritage Trust collection in 2025.
The Titan series of buses were forward control, front engined double deck bus chassis manufactured by Leyland Motors (UK) between 1927 and 1969 (with a production break between 1942 and 1945). A number of different companies manufactured bodies for these chassis. The PD2 version first appeared in 1946.
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Former Doncaster Transport Leyland PD2/40 188 388KDT is pictured at the Home Farm stop during the 'Festival of Transport 2025' event at Beamish on May 31st 2025. Whilst it is unlikely that trolleybuses will ever run at Beamish again the Roe body of 188 dates from 1955 when it was fitted to Doncaster trolleybus 395. It normally resides at the South Yorkshire Transport Museum in Rotherham.
Leyland Titan PD2/3 - 53-seat lowbridge double-deck bus, built new in 1950.
Photo taken entering the old Tithebarn Street bus station, Preston, Lancashire - circa 1964.
FHL112 was a Leyland PD2/12 with a Leyland lowbridge 27/26R body. It was new in October1953 as West Riding No. 746. It is seen working service 183 in Leeds.
Former GMT PD2 3085 is seen here at C F Booth, Rotherham on the 24th of March 1979 after being converted for use as a scrap carrier. The aluminium panels were loaded onto these vehicles and transported across the site for further processing.
FRJ239D Ld PD2/40 L44016 MCCW H36/28F 3/1966 Salford 239
GHL309 was a Leyland PD2/22 with a Roe L24/26R body new to West Riding in 1954 as 760 in Wakefield bus station.
CHL164 was a 1950 Leyland Titan PD2/1 with a Leyland L27/26R body new to West Riding as 693. It is seen in Wakefield bus station and was in the last months of its service. It went for scrap in 1969.
trying to bond with my aubrey, i gave her a little trim. I think makeup is a must - she looks so pale and bored. I think her skintone isn't quite right for her, she might have to swap hair with saffy.
you can see the bed side of the bedroom here - the girls on the wall and the comforter are my experiments with printing my own fabric.
I.D.s 413 & 11248 photographed by John Ward on 1974-08-21 using a 35mm camera producing a colour positive in slide format and then scanned and digitized.
Greater Manchester Transport or GMPTE (formerly Selnec) Leyland PD2 BJA 922B (fleet No 5822) on service 192 Hazel Grove in Piccadilly, Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
Edinburgh Corporation. 616 (YWS616). Leyland Titan PD2/30-Alexander. {1962}. Longstone, Edinburgh, 23 June 1974.
Former Corporation Leyland PD2 in the guise of SELNEC 5940, motors past The Mersey Tavern in the early 1970s. The pub survives as The Chestergate Tavern, the bus passing to GMPTE in 1974.
Scanned from an acquired 6x4.5cm negative, photographer unknown.
389KDT was a 1963 Leyland Titan PD2/40 and had been bought by Doncaster Corporation Transport as chassis only. It had then been fitted with the Roe 1955 built body which had been removed from ex-Mexborough & Swinton trolleybus EWT479.
When its service life came to an end in October 1975 it was modified to become a driver training vehicle, a function which would keep it on the road for another decade.
It is seen passing Christ Church with a group of trainee drivers and instructors.
Showing the more typical sloping Massey bodywork is No.307, a Leyland PD2/40 from 1957 seen here on 10/10/68 in the town centre.
In 1967 the Lancashire seaside resort of Southport celebrated its centenary of being incorporated as a County Borough, an administrative honour that granted the borough the powers of the county council within its boundaries. To help celebrate the Borough's Transport Department, Southport Corporation Transport, produced a neat little booklet that looked at the history of public transport in the borough.
This started in May 1873 with the running of horse trams by the Southport Tramways Company who, in 1880, were joined by the Birkdale Company. In 1896 the Corporation exercised its right to purchase the tramways and also began the process of electrifiying and extending the network. The first electric services ran on 18 July 1900 (work having started in February that year!). The Corporation finally bought out the remainder of the Southport Company. The system was a typical Edwardian 'first generation' system in that by the 1920s the Corporation was looking to run motor buses and, on 31 December 1934, the last tram ran in the town. The first motor bus purchased had been in 1924 or 26 - a locally constructed Vulcan. The buses, I recall, rean in a grand red and cream livery that matched the painting of the town's street lighting columns!
In the next few decades the undertaking were staunch supporters of the nearby Leyland company and they provided the majority of the bus fleet as can be seen in the photographs. There were some wartime interlopers in the form of Utility Daimlers and, in post-war years, the Department ran one of the country's most unusual services using most unusual vehicles. These were the twelve Bedford QL type that ran, open-top, along the beach from the town's promenade to Sandhills and Ainsdale. These last ran in 1967 and the Bedford's disposed of.
By 1967 the Corporation was on the verge of purchasing the first 'new generation' buses in the form of Leyland Panther single deck buses suitable for OPO operation. This was driven byt he need to review operations as passenger figures continued to collapse. Some Atlantean double deckers were purchased in 1973 - the year before the Borough became part of the new Merseyside County Council and the transport department passed to the Merseyside PTE.
This picture shows one of the small batch of vehicles purchased in 1961 that were typical of the fleet additions at that period with the shift from rear platform to forward entrance but a move back to exposed radiators. 45, UWM 45, was a Leyland Titan PD2/40 with Weymann bodywork. It can be seen running on trade plates 471 FY so it is likely to be 'on delivery'. I can almost hear the growl of the 0600 from here!
Leyland Titan PD2 / 20 - Met-Camm H63R
New to Edinburgh Corporation ( 505 ) during February-1955 . Coming here in May-1975
LWS505 was posed for us in the Operators yard at Bellshill , Scotland
Thursday afternoon 23rd-March-1978 .
389KDT Doncaster Corporation Transport 189 was a 1963 Leyland Titan PD2/40 which had been bought as a chassis only and fitted with the Roe built body removed from former trolleybus 394 EWT479.
It became SYPTE 1189 and is seen in service in the month of the takeover by South Yorkshire PTE.
One of only two Oldham buses photographed - No.476 , a 1952 Leyland PD2/10-Leyland purchased from Sheffield in 1966, arrives in Ashton . 3/8/70.
Amongst the many Corporation buses parked at Woodside was this Leyland PD2/12 No. 267,with Ashcroft body dating from 1954. 24/6/67.
On a crisp Sunday morning in 1973, Edinburgh Corporation Transport 542 (LWS 542), an MCW bodied Leyland Titan PD2/20, grinds up Candlemaker Row in Edinburgh. To the photographer's left is Greyfriar's Bobby pub, where I spent many a pleasant evening in my student years. On the photographer's right is the statue of the dog in question.
The spire of the Highland Tolbooth church looms over the ancient tenements of the Old Town. In the background is the Greyfriars Hotel, which at the time was not a place to spend a pleasant evening as I recall.
RUF186. Former Southdown fleet number 786 this is a Leyland PD2 with Beadle H59RD bodywork.
One of a batch of 12 similar vehicles delivered new in 1956.
Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre, 12th April 2015
I'm trying to make some ear muffs (is that how it's called?) ...I only finished one of the sides but I«m still not happy because I didn't use metal but plastic to give the shape and it's not so perfect. Also made a pair of socks.
I.D.s 560 & 11095 photographed by John Ward on 1974-07-01 using a 35mm camera producing a colour positive in slide format and then scanned and digitized.
Cape Town City Transport - Leyland PD2 CA 89515 (fleet No tg 0352) Route 2 Wynberg at Sea Point, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
Stockport Corpn. buses always looked smart in their traditional livery - as No.306 , a 1951 Leyland PD2/1-Leyland parked at Stalybridge bus stn, 3/8/70..
KDT562, a Leyland PD2/1 received a 1958 Roe H34/28R body from a withdrawn trolleybus FWX902 in July 1964. Within four months of the rebodying the bus was involved in a collision and sustained considerable nearside side damage. The vehicle was repaired and continued in service until withdrawal in 1970. (Ray Atkins photo)
Bexleyheath Transport MUF439 is a 1954 Leyland PD2/12-Northern Counties ex Southdown 759 (purchased in Mar'68) seen here in Plumstead High Street on 14/4/68 - my 25th. Birthday! I obviously treated myself to a day out in an unusual area - Plumstead not being known to me.
On 21/10/67 a visit to Brighton for non-bus purposes gave me just the one shot! At the Steyne are Corporation No.6. a 1961 Leyland PD2/37 -Orion and BH&D Bristol KSW6G -ECW No. 464 from 1954.
Trent Motor Traction, 1256 is a Leyland PD2/12 with Leyland H32/26RD bodywork which was new in January 1955 and registered FRC 956.
It is seen in Blackpool in the summer of 1985 at a tramway centenary event if I remember correctly.
A classic all-Leyland PD2/1 from 1951, Stockport No.306 at Stalybridge Bus Station on 3/8/70.
From my "Manchesrer Area Buses" book.
4506WB was a Leyland PD2-30 with a Roe H33-26R body. It was new to the 'A' fleet in January 1958 as Sheffield T.D. 506. It was withdrawn and sold for scrap in March 1973. It was seen in Sheffield's still beating heart of steel making.
I have put August 1972 although I am not sure of the exact date, it may have been earlier that summer. I am fairly sure the tour was organised to mark the imminent withdrawal of these buses.
An offside view of one of the eleven PD2/3's in the Northern fleet - no.NRB130 on the outskirts of Aberdeen. 31/8/71.
Glasgow's Riverside Museum is the location of this preserved Leyland Titan PD2/24 open-top bus.
Entering service in February 1959 as Glasgow Corporation Transport, L108, it has bodywork built by the Corporations own workshops on Alexander frames and registered SGD 10, it now carries the FYS 8 plate which also originated in Glasgow.
I think the PD2/40 version of the Titan must have been the most popular. Several survive in preservation and this smart example, new to Birkenhead, in 01/1958, is leading a line of preserved buses in it's home town on Shore Road, when operating a heritage service at The Wirral Bus & Tram Show, on 02/10/2022. Behind is another preserved Birkenhead Corporation Transport Massey bodied Leyland Titan. A PD2/37 model, it was new in 09/1967. Also in view is preserved Liverpool Corporation Transport 'Baby Grand' 245. This was operating a shortened journey from the Wirral Transport Museum, Taylor Street, the journey being curtailed about a hundred yards or so behind me. This was due to a track fault on the tight curve on the approach to Woodside Ferry Terminal. © Peter Steel 2022.