Leeds City Transport Buses in Distress

Over recent weeks, thoughts of your webmaster have turned to some Leeds City Transport buses in distress

Over in Canada we have Leeds 306 (a 1937-vintage Leyland TD5), some pics at http://britishbusesabroad.fotopic.net/c205547.html and in Cambridgeshire we have three Leeds Standee single deck buses. There are pictures and more info at http://www.bedfordgathering.com:80/wakefield/tua.htm. Basically there is a scrapyard in Linton, Cambridgeshire which contains three Leeds City Transport "standee" vehicles, TUA31, TUA32 and TUA33. The vehicles are still in Leeds City Transport livery. TUA 31 is a Leyland Tiger Cub, TUA 32 and TUA 33 are AEC Reliances (the AECs are 1954 and the Tiger Cub 1955). All four vehicles have local Roe bodies. As that site explains, there were 8 standee buses; 29-31 were Leyland, 32-34 AEC, and the ones which got away were Guy (35 & 36).

As regular visitors to this website know, the collecting policy of at least one member of this group focuses heavily on vehicles which operated in passenger service in Leeds from new and have a locally-built body. Rather by accident than by design, the products of British Leyland feature much more heavily than like likes of AEC, Bristol and Daimler (although these of course joined the Leyland empire subsequently). The purpose of this webpage is to ask whether anyone is interested in supporting any attempt to rescue any of the above four vehicles. Transport costs from Canada to the UK would be phenomenal, and regarding the standees, the Wakefield Files suggests that the yard-owner is looking for serious money for them... though logic suggests that the incremental cost of getting the second and third ones out would not be that much more than just getting one.

So over to you, good reader of this website. As you will know, the few members we already have are fully committed to the vehicles we already have (and one pending acquisition) that to dilute further is not realistic. However, if I receive enough responses to this page to convince me that launching some form of formal appeal is worthwhile, then I will. Your comments please folks - appeal@typg.org.uk

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