This vehicle took part in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1996.
It's a 1948 Leyland Titan PD2/1, formerly operated by the North Western Road Car Company which was based in Stockport. It was converted to driver training in 1965 and absorbed into SELNEC (South East Lancashire and North East Cheshire) in 1972 with the reorganisation of bus services in Greater Manchester, and was sold into preservation two years later. A note in the programme of this event reads as follows:
'Leyland Titan PD2/1, Leyland L27/26R, 1948 CDB 224
North Western 224
Entered by A. Gaskell, Irlams o' th' Height, Salford
This lowbridge vehicle ended its days in the training fleet and has subsequently undergone extensive restoration to everything except the steering and the clutch, as anyone wh has tried to manoeuvre the vehicle within the confined spaces of the Museum will testify!'
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