1950 Leyland Titan

Here are some photographs that I took in Guernsey a few days ago.

It’s a 1950 Leyland PD2/3 bus that was new to London Transport as RTL1004 in June of that year and was sold in June 1967.

It was purchased by Guernseybus in October 1994 and was rebuilt with a front entrance and one person operated. It was given the Guernsey registration number 995 in December 1995 and this was changed to 47312 in March 1997.

In November 2000 it was sold to Nash, Weybridge and was reunited with its original registration number in September 2002, then sold again to Ullmer, Enfield August 2004.

Ian Walker, chairman of the Little Big Hotel Group in Guernsey, had spotted the bus at the Goodwood Revival meeting over several years and realised that the route sign on it showed that it had once seen service in Guernsey.

In 2023 he noticed that it had a ‘For Sale’ sign, so he bought it, and it was transported to Guernsey in December 2024.