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.

Buses

I took this photograph at the Heaton Park, Manchester at the Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in September 1995.

From the left there's a 1964 AEC Routemaster in the livery of Clydeside Scottish Omnibuses Ltd, a 1963 Manchester Corporation Daimler CVG6K, a 1958 Manchester Corporation Leyland Titan PD2/34, a 1957 Lancashire United Transport Guy Arab IV and the corner of a 1968 Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 in SELNEC livery.

Here's a view I took later looking down on the five vehicles, The Leyland Atlantean (HVM901F) isn't listed in the programme of the event, which has this to say about the other four:

M20          AEC Routemaster, Park Royal H64R, 1964                    ALD913B

                    London Transport RM1913

                    Entered by     Messrs Bentley, Cannon & Worsnop, Halifax

                    This vehicle is presented in the livery of Clydesdale Scottish, with whom it saw

                    service for three years following withdrawal by London Transport in 1986.

                    Purchased for preservation in 1991.

L15            Daimler CVG6K, Netro-Cammell H65R, 1963               4632VM

                    Manchester 4632

                    Entered by     D.J.Talbot, Eccles

                    This vehicle was one of the last Daimler buses purchased by Manchester

                    Corporation and was withdrawn in 1978 and was secured for preservation

                    after an extended life,

L13            Leyland PD2/34, Burlingham H64R, 1958                     TNA520

                    Entered by     J.Crankshaw, Meltham, Huddersfield

                    This vehicle is unusual in that it originally entered service with a fully

                    automatic gearbox. It was later converted to semi-automatic, which is

                    itself unusual.

L14            Guy Arab IV, Northern Counties, 1957                            116JTD

                    Lancashire United Transport 21

                    Entered by     J.Crankshaw, Meltham, Huddersfield

                    A representative of the many similar vehicles which performed yeoman

                    service for the company.

This is another view of the five buses that I've cropped from another photograph.