Leyland

  Registration Number  FUF 224, this Leyland TD5 with  Park Royal H54R bodywork was built in 1938 and operated by Southdown Motor Services Ltd (Fleet Number 224).

Pictured outside the premises of Charles H Roe in Crossgates, Leeds this 1957 Leyland Tiger Cub (PSUC/1), Registration Number VKH 668, with attractive Roe B39F body.  This was first of 6 such buses delivered to East Yorkshire Motor Services Limited, of Hull.

Information courtesy of Roger Hardy and Mike Averill.

  FUH 370D is a Leyland Tiger Cub chassis with Park Royal constructed BET Federation specification bodywork.  Shown here at the Bristol Rally in 1995, its first event in preservation, this 1966 vehicle is Western Welsh 1370 and one of a number purchased by the Omnibus Company during 65/66.  The build quality was a major contributing factor to its survival.  Note: The majority of PRV BET Federation specification bodies were mounted on AEC Reliance chassis.

Information kindly supplied by Paul Burgess.  Photo courtesy Richard Field ©.

Registration Number OCD 765 operated by Southdown Motor Services in Brighton. 

Registration Number TBC 162 operated by Leicester City Transport. 

Registration Number BKH 172B Leyland Panther with Roe bodywork was built for the 1964 Earl's Court Show and destined for Kingston-upon-Hull.  This may have been a Park Royal design as it was one of many orders transferred from Park Royal to their Roe subsidiary.  Measuring 36 feet by 8 foot 2½ inches, this all metal bus was the first 36 footer built at the Roe works at Crossgates, Leeds.

Information kindly supplied by Mike Averill with additions by John Kaye.

Registration Number CFN 61.

In 1946 East Kent ordered 50 Leyland PS1 coaches fitted with C32R bodies. These were delivered between September 1946 and March 1948. The license numbers were CFN60 to CFN109.  CFN 61 (Leyland PS1 Chassis Number 461112, Body Number 32504) was delivered in October 1946 and remained in service until 1959. It was sold for further service at Llanwern, in South Wales, and finally scrapped in 1964. 

East Kent used Park Royal bodies for most of its Leyland and Dennis coaches and single deckers delivered until the early 50s, and almost all of its double deckers delivered from 1930 to 1970. Park Royal continued to feature in coach deliveries in the 1950s and 1960s alongside Beadle, Duple and Plaxton

Information kindly supplied by Mike Harvey

Registration Number FFN 448. Leyland Royal Tiger (circa 1951), the first of six vehicles for East Kent.

Registration Number FFN 449 for East Kent, pictured in PRV's works.

Here a group of Titans pictured by Tony Scott at PRV works during October/November 1979.