The first of an occasional series which came about when I was looking through my collection of images for something else and this small selection turned up.
The year 2013 saw the 100th. anniversary of the introduction of motor bus operation in Sheffield.
The anniversary was marked by a rally hosted by ‘First South Yorkshire’ the successors to ‘Sheffield Corporation Transport’ held at their ‘Olive Grove’ depot on the 12th. of May in 2013.
As is usual, invites to other bus operators were issued and the bus seen here was one of the attendees.
The Leyland B15 Titan was produced in the 1980’s primarily for ‘London Transport’ but a few other operators took small numbers.
Being in todays terms an Integral design which then was not popular, it lead to Leyland developing a chassis-ed version for bodybuilders to show what they could do.
This being the Leyland Olympian which was to be Leyland’s swan song.
Eventually becoming the Volvo Olympian of which some albeit now elderly buses can still be seen at work today.
New, registered B100 WUV to ‘London Regional Transport’ as its No. T1100. It passed to ‘Selkent’ and later ‘Stagecoach North West’ as its No. 11100.
It was they who removed the roof.
There is a reference on the internet to it working in 2019 for ‘Attend IT Ltd’ of Brentford in ‘London Transport’ livery.
There is also a reference to it being registered A961 SYE and there is an image of it painted in pink dated 2017 and at some stage it worked for a company called
‘Red Routemaster’.
NIB 5232 ‘South Yorkshire Transport Museum’ ‘RED RIDER’. Leyland B15 Titan /1
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
NIB 5232 ‘South Yorkshire Transport Museum’ ‘RED RIDER’. Leyland B15 Titan /2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
NIB 5232 ‘South Yorkshire Transport Museum’ ‘RED RIDER’. Leyland B15 Titan /3
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
NIB 5232 ‘South Yorkshire Transport Museum’ ‘RED RIDER’. Leyland B15 Titan /4
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
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