Leyland Titan PD2

This bus was a regular entrant in the Greater Manchester Society's annual Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rallies in the 1990s, and I took this photograph in Heaton Park at the event in 1998.

It's an ex-Manchester Corporation 1958 Leyland Titan PD2/34 with a 6-cylinder inline diesel engine with a capacity described by Leyland as 600 cu in which equates to 9.8 litres, although the DVLA record shows it as 9.7 litres. A note in the programme of the event reads as follows:

Leyland PD2/34 /Burlingham,  1958                                                                      TNA 520

Entered by     John Crankshaw, Meltham, Huddersfield

When 3520 entered service with Manchester Corporation they were experimenting with semi automatic gearboxes to ease the burden for the drivers. However 3520 entered service with a fully automatic box, proving unsuccessful it was soon converted to semi automatic. 3520 is yet another vehicle from the Museum of Transport.