SCT '61 Photo Index
Lancaster City
Fleet list 1916-1974

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1. FTD69 ... Blue Line (Samuel Morgan) FTD69 was a Guy Arab I, new to Lancaster Corporation in 1943. It was rebodied by Park Royal/Guy in 1952 and bought by Blue Line in 1958. (1966, Armthorpe Depot)
2. FTD727 ... Lancaster CT 727, FTD727, a Guy Arab II (5LW) with Guy (on Park Royal frames) H30/26R body.
3. FTE66 ... Lancaster CT 66, FTE66, a Guy Arab II (5LW) with Crossley H30/26R body. (Lancaster CT depot)
4. HTF569 ... Lancaster 569, HTF569, a Crossley DD42/5 with Crossley H30/26R body new in 1947 on driver training duties. (December 1965, Lancaster Bus Station)
5. KTF582 ... Lancaster 582, KTF582, an AEC Regal III with Strachan B36F body, acquired from Morecambe & Heysham in 1953. (c.1966, Lancaster Bus Station)
6. NTC708 ... Lancaster City Transport 708, NTC708, a 1951 Leyland PD2 with Leyland H33/26R body, one of a batch of three new in 1951. (December 1965, Lancaster Bus Station)
7. NTF466 ... Lancaster City Transport 466, NTF466, a 1952 Daimler CVG5 with Northern Counties bodywork seen on Morecambe Promenade in 1977. (July 1977, Morecambe Promenade)
8. NTF466 ... Lancaster City Council 466, NTF466, a Daimler CVG6 / Northern Counties B35F. This bus probably needs no introduction, known locally as the "prison bus" and subsequently preserved by LCT. At one time it ran in blue livery, whether before or after this shot to be clarified. (Sun 6/7/80, LCT Morecambe depot)
9. 128DTD ... Lancaster City Transport 128, 128DTD, a 1957 East Lancs bodied Leyland Titan PD2/41 (August 1973, Lancaster Bus Station)
10. 128DTD ... Pioneer, St. Helier, Jersey, J14672, a Leyland Titan PD2/41 with East Lancs. H35/28R body, new to Lancaster C.T. (128) and originally registered 128DTD. (September 1992, Liberation Square, St. Helier, Jersey)
11. 128DTD ... Pioneer Coaches, Jersey, Channel Islands J14672 named ‘Oliver’. It is an East Lancs bodied Leyland Titan PD2/41 that had been new to Lancaster City Transport as their 128, 128DTD, in November 1957 and was seen here at the Jersey Pearl Centre at St. Ouen. (Sat 4/9/99, Jersey Pearl Centre, St. Ouen, Jersey)
12. 129DTD ... Former Lancaster Corporation 129, 129DTD, a Leyland Titan PD2/41 with East Lancs. H35/28R body, new in 1957, but now in Lancaster City Transport livery and pictured in Morecambe whilst performing driver training duties. (Sat 30/8/75, Battery Bus Park, Morecambe)
13. 881BTF ... City of Lancaster 881, 881BTF, a Leyland Titan PD2/41 built in 1957 with East Lancashire H35/28R bodywork. (July 1974, The Battery, Morecambe)
14. 998AKT ... Lancaster C.T. 998, 998AKT, a Leyland Titan PD2/30 with Massey H33/28R body, new in 1957 as Maidstone Corporation 8, and still retaining the latter's later blue and cream livery. (September 1975, Marine Road West, Morecambe)
15. 175FTJ ... Lancaster City Transport 175, 175FTJ, a Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/3 built in 1958 with East Lancashire B43F bodywork. (May 1972, Lancaster Bus Station)
16. 411DKM ... Lancaster 411, 411DKM, started life with Maidstone Corporation, and is still in their livery. She is a Leyland Titan PD2/30 with Massey H33/28R body, delivered in 1958 as Maidstone 11. (Sat 13/9/75, Morecambe Promenade)
17. HB9841 ... Lancaster City Council 9841, HB9841, a Leyland Titan PD3 / East Lancs H41/32RD, a training vehicle ex Merthr Tydfil in 1974 although LCT did use it in service. (Sat 6/9/80, LCT Morecambe depot)
18. HB9841 ... Lancaster City Council 9841, HB9841, a Leyland Titan PD3 / East Lancs H41/32RD, ex Merthyr Tydfil on driver taining duties. (Tue 10/11/81, Brock Street, Lancaster)
19. HB9841 ... Merthyr Tydfil 105, HB9841, a 1958 Leyland Titan PD3/4 with East Lancs H41/32RD body is seen in service with Lancaster in 1976 as their 841. The bus was bought as a driver trainer but is seen here in service. (August 1976, Battery Hotel, Morecambe)
20. 389JTD ... Lancaster City Transport 389, 389JTD, a 1959 Leyland Tiger Cub with East Lancs body. The use of the side destination blind as a pay as you enter sign is unusual. (August 1973, Lancaster Bus Station)
21. 390JTD ... Lancaster 390, 390JTD, was new to the original Lancaster City Transport in 1959. She is a Leyland Tiger Cub, noted in the PSVC fleet list as being of the PSUC1/3 variety (i.e., having a pneumocyclic gearbox). The East Lancs bodywork is of B43F layout, and she was in maroon and cream livery when new. (Tue 20/5/75, Heysham Road Depot)
22. 390JTD ... Lancaster 390, 390JTD, a Leyland PSUC1/3 Tiger Cub, seen in Lancaster Bus Station, had an East Lancs B43F body. (Thu 5/8/65, Lancaster Bus Station)
23. 390JTD ... Lancaster City Transport 390, 390JTD, a Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/3 built in 1959 with East Lancashire B43F bodywork. (July 1974, Heysham Road Depot)
24. ORC768 ... Trent 1368, ORC768, a 1959 Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 with Weymann lowbridge 78 seat bodywork. (1978, Hornsea Pottery, Lancaster)
25. 101UTF ... Lancaster City Transport 101, 101UTF, a 1961 Leopard L1 with East Lancs 42 seat dual door body (August 1973, Lancaster Bus Station)
26. LHG536 ... In 1961 Burnley Colne & Nelson bought six Leyland Titan PD3/6 with front entrance East Lancs front entrance bodywork. Some sixteen years later the whole batch were sold to Lancaster. Seen here in its new guise is Lancaster's 536, LHG536. (1977, Hala Square Terminus, Lancaster)
27. LHG537 ... Lancaster City Council 537 LHG537, a Leyland Titan PD3/6 built in 1961 with East Lancashire H41/32F bodywork. (July 1977, Lancaster Bus Station)
28. 102UTF ... Lancaster City Transport 203, 203YTE, a 1963 Leyland PD2/37 with East Lancs H37/28F body and alongside 102, 102UTF, a Leyland Leopard L1 with East Lancs B42D body, new in 1962 (December 1965, Lancaster Bus Station)
29. 103UTF ... Lancaster bought several batches of Leyland Leopards with a variety of bodywork by among others East Lancs and Seddon. Seen after withdrawal and sale is 103, 103UTF, a 1962 Leyland Leopard L1 with East Lancs 42 seat dual entrance bodywork. (Sat 14/5/94, Batley)
30. 201YTE ... In 1974 Lancaster amalgamated with nearby Morecambe to form Lancaster City Council Transport and a Trafalgar blue livery was adopted in place of Lancaster's ruby and cream and Morecambe's green. Seen in the new colours is 201, 201YTE, a 1963 Leyland Titan PD2/37 with East Lancs bodywork. (1976, Hala Square Terminus)
31. 201YTE ... Lancaster City Council 201, 201YTE, a Leyland Titan PD2 / East Lancs 037/28F. Converted to open top in 1976, this was one of three buses bought by Lancaster City Transport in 1963 and is pictured before setting off on the sea front service from Heysham to Bare, Happy Mount Park. This was a 'high sided' open top conversion, differing thus from 202 & 203 (Sun 6/7/80, Heysham Village)
32. 202YTE ... Lancaster 202, 202YTE, a 1963 Leyland Titan PD2/27 with East Lancs body has now spent longer as an open top bus than it did in its original form. It was converted in 1978 by its original owner to replace AEC Regents on the Morecambe Promenade service. (July 1990, Westwood parking by Scarborough Station)
33. 202YTE ... Lancaster City Council 202, 202YTE, a Leyland Titan PD2 / East Lancs O37/28F, seen working on the promenade service to Heysham Village. Converted to open top (low sided) in 1977 and withdrawn later in 1980 (Sun 31/8/80, Happy Mount Park, Bare)
34. 202YTE ... Lancaster 202, 202YTE, seen in Lancaster Bus Station, was a Leyland PD2/37 with an East Lancs H37/28F body. (Thu 5/8/65, Lancaster Bus Station)
35. 202YTE ... East Yorkshire M.S. (Scarborough & District) 202YTE, a Leyland Titan PD2/37 with East Lancs. O37/28F body, new to Lancaster C.T. (202) as H37/28F in 1963. (Summer 2000, Marine Drive, Scarborough)
36. 203YTE ... Lancaster City Transport 203, 203YTE, a 1963 Leyland PD2/37 with East Lancs H37/28F body and alongside 102, 102UTF, a Leyland Leopard L1 with East Lancs B42D body, new in 1962 (December 1965, Lancaster Bus Station)
37. 203YTE ... In an effort to upgrade the open top fleet used in Morecambe, Lancaster converted a batch of front entrance Leyland Titans with East Lancs bodywork to open top format. 203, 203YTE, a 1963 Leyland Titan PD2/57 wears a reversed white and blue livery and the name Grumpy after one of Disney's seven dwarfs. Sister vehicle 202, 202YTE, is currently in the East Yorkshire fleet (1978, Hornsea Pottery)
38. 203YTE ... Lancaster City Council 203, 203YTE, a Leyland Titan PD2 / East Lancs 037/28F. At rest in the depot, no doubt contemplating that the end of the summer season - and its life - was drawing close. A low-sided open top conversion in 1977 and withdrawn in 1980, so with realistically only a few weeks left (Sat 6/9/80, LCT Morecambe depot)
39. DBA217C ... Lancaster City Transport bought a number of second hand double deckers in the 1970s. Two seen here are 217, DBA217C, a 1965 Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 with Metro Cammell bodywork that originated with Salford and 768, ORC768, a 1959 Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 with lowbridge Weymann bodywork which came from Trent. (1978, Hornsea Pottery, Lancaster)
40. DBA228C ... When Lancaster bought a batch of ex Salford Atlanteans from GMT in 1978, a few entered service in their previous owners orange and white colours with a City of Lancaster Tilling style fleetname. 228, DBA228C, is a Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 with Metro Cammell bodywork. (1978, Morecambe Depot)
41. DBA228C ... Lancaster 228, DBA228C, is a Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 with Metro Cammell bodywork new to Salford City Transport. Purchased by Lancaster in 1978 it was subsequently converted to open top for the sea front service to Happy Mount Park and for a while carried this advertising livery for Sealink ferries. The picture was taken on the occasion of the Potteries Bus Rally at PMT's now closed Hanley depot in June 1982. (June 1982, Hanley Bus Depot)
42. KTJ204C ... Former Lancaster 204, KTJ204C, a Leyland PD2/37 with East Lancs H37/28F body, one of three new in April 1965, now owned by Ensignbus. (Sat 2/12/06, Gravesend, Ensignbus X80 Running Day)
43. KTJ204C ... Lancaster City Transport 204, KTJ204C, a 1965 Leyland Titan PD2/37 with front entrance East Lancs body. The bus is seen on the corporation side of the bus station, the other side being home to Ribble services. 204 is now preserved. (August 1973, Lancaster Bus Station)
44. KTJ204C ... Lancaster City Transport 204, KTJ204C, a 1965 Leyland PD2/37 with East Lancs body. (Fri 27/7/73, Hala Square Terminus)
45. KTJ204C ... Go Northern T591 KTJ204C, a Leyland Titan PD2/37 built in 1965 with East Lancashire H37/28F bodywork. Smartly turned out (at the start of the Tees-Tyne run), this training vehicle had started life as Lancaster 204. (June 1990, High Street, Stockton on Tees)
46. KTJ205C ... Lancaster City Council 205, KTJ205C, a Leyland Titan PD2 / East Lancs H37/28F, bound for Lancaster University on route 472. This route and its sisters 470/1 were jointly operated with Ribble and were the last in the area to be converted to OPO, in Lancaster's case at the end of February 1982. (Sat 5/7/80, Torrisholme Road, Lancaster)
47. KTJ205C ... Eynon, Trimsaran KTJ205C was purchased from a preservationist in May 1983 via Lonsdale Coaches, Heysham as dealer. It was the middle Leyland Titan PD2/37 of a trio with East Lancs H37/28F bodies new to Lancaster as 204-6 in April 1965, that got quite famous by working into the 1980s. (Fri 24/5/85, New Street, Kidwelly)
48. KTJ205C ... Lancaster 205, KTJ205C was a Leyland Titan PD2/37, new to the original Lancaster City Transport in 1965. (Tue 20/5/75, Lancaster Bus Station)
49. KTJ205C ... Lancaster 205, KTJ205C, was a Leyland PD2/37 with an East Lancs H37/28F body seen in the bus station in Lancaster. (Thu 5/8/65, Lancaster Bus Station)
50. KTJ206C ... Taylor Woodrow KTJ206C, a Leyland Titan PD2/37 built in 1965 with East Lancs H37/28F bodywork. (September 1981, Heysham)
51. KTJ206C ... Seen in the bus station in Lancaster is City of Lancaster 206, KTJ206C, which was a Leyland PD2/37 with an East Lancs H37/28F body new in April 1965. (Lancaster Bus Station)
52. 102UTF ... Lancaster City 102, 102UTF, a Leyland Leopard/East Lancs B42D in Morecambe Garage with ex-Maidstone buses in the background. (Sat 6/3/76, Morecambe Garage)
53. CTJ102E ... Lancaster City Transport 2, CTJ102E, AEC Swift with 50 seat Pennine body originally in the Morecambe & Heysham fleet dates from 1967 (Summer 1976, Euston Road, Morecambe)
54. GTC104F ... Lancaster City Transport 104, GTC104F, a Leyland Panther PSUR1/1R built in 1967 with East Lancashire B53F bodywork. (May 1972, Lancaster Bus Station)
55. GTC106F ... Lancaster City Transport 106, GTC106F, a 1967 Leyland Panther PSUR1/1R with East Lancs body (August 1973, Lancaster Bus Station)
56. LTC109F ... Siver Service (Woolliscroft), Matlock, 53 LTC109F, a Leyland Panther PSUR1/1R built in 1968 with East Lancashire B53F bodywork. (June 1981, Darley Dale Depot)
57. RTE112G ... Lancaster City Transport 112, RTE112G, a Leyland Leopard PSU3A/2R built in 1969 with East Lancashire B51F+21 bodywork. (May 1972, Lancaster Bus Station)
58. RTE112G ... Lancaster 112, RTE112G, was a Leyland Leopard PSU3A/2R with East Lancs B51F bodywork, one of three new in June 1969. (Sun 31/8/69, about to enter Lancaster Bus Station)
59. SEL242H ... Lancaster 242, SEL242H, a 1970 Leyland Atlantean PDR1A/1with Alexander bodywork was originally 242 in the Bournemouth fleet (Tue 19/7/88, Lancaster Bus Station)
60. MTE613K ... Lancaster City Council 13, MTE613K, a DP47F bodied Seddon RU, had been new in June 1972 to Morecambe & Heysham (their 13 too). It is pictured outside Morecambe (Promenade) Station. (c.1975, Morecambe Station)
61. NTD117K ... Lancaster City Transport 117, NTD117K, a 1972 Leyland Leopard PSU3B/2R with 51 seat Seddon body (August 1973, Market Street, Lancaster)
62. PTC124M ... In 1973/4 Lancaster purchased a trio of Leyland Nationals numbered 122 to 124, PTC122M to PTC124M. Bus Lists on the Web shows 123 as new 12/73 and the others 3/74. (Thu 6/4/78, Fishwick's Depot, Leyland, Lancashire)