1961 London Transport Routemaster RM798 | 1964 Leyland PD2 Titan | 1981 Leyland Atlantean

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1961 London Transport Routemaster RM798 | 1964 Leyland PD2 Titan | 1981 Leyland Atlantean

August 1, 2004

The following photo(s) are © copyrighted by David Griffiths (Czech Republic)

From

David Griffiths

Zamek Borec

41002 Borec 1

Czech Republic

Greetings Bernie from North Bohemia

I hope your visiters might be interested in my collection of English buses... in the Czech Republic !

All the buses have been driven the 1000 plus miles across Europe by myself and friends over the last four years.

The first photo shows my London Transport Routemaster RM798, the good old Routemaster celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, although mine was only built in 1961.

The second photo shows a Leyland PD2 Titan built in 1964 and new to Warrington Borough Transport in the North West of England. This bus had an amazing life with Warrington, first as a regular city bus, then as a driver trainer, then as a promotions bus for its Coachline subsidary when it was fitted out with a bar and tables and seating to both decks and it was purchased by myself from Warrington in 2000 complete with the original seats ! It is still in its last colour scheme and runs very well.

The final photo is another ex.Warrington bus, this time a 1981 Leyland Atlantean which was no 26 in the fleet ( OTB26W)which was professional restored by its builders East Lancashire Coachworks in Blackburn and is preserved in its original livery .

Please visit my home page for details of other buses in my collection. It can be found at

http://www.geocities.com/bohemiadoubledeckers

I hope these are of interest and good luck with your web site.

David Griffiths

Posted by:
Classic Bus (101)
on Jan 25, 06 | 1:47 pm

Reader Comments

I am only 16 but just thought i'd let you know how amazing i think the final bus is. (OTB 26W) Ive'd loved buses since i was 2 and it was in service for ages...it always used to come down my road on the sankey circular, always smashing the trees on its way. It's horrible now, on the route now we have single decker, wright merits which are good but nowhere near as good as the good ol Leylands!

Posted by: Tom Faulkner | Sep 08, 07 | 12:38 pm

Hello,
I saw the photo of the Leyland Titan that once belonged to the Warrington Bus company.
A friend of mine owns a Leyland Titan PD2 that also belonged to the Warrington and had the reg nr BED 722C.
Unfortunately I cannot read the reg.nr on the photo. Could you please tell me the reg nr of that bus. It could be the one my friend now owns.
We are looking for as much info as we can get of the bus he now owns and that should be restored. It is an open topper now. I guess because in the Netherlands the max height is 4 meters.
All info is welcome.
Adrian

Posted by: adrian | Nov 21, 07 | 5:39 am

To Adrian, sorry this is my bus and it is in the same livery today as when I bought it from Warrington Borough Transport in 2000, that is their now defunct Warrington Coachlines livery.

This is AED31B, I have a photo somewhere of the bus you have. You can contact me at griffiths@volny.cz

Posted by: David | Nov 25, 07 | 1:23 am

You can see more of the buses posted by Dave Griffith at:

http://www.freewebs.com/heritagepark/news.htm

Posted by: Classic Bus | Jan 13, 09 | 12:10 pm

Here's a shot of RM798 in 1981.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/isarsteve/3450490738/

Posted by: IsarSteve | May 13, 09 | 1:20 pm

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