THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND BUS IMAGE GALLERY
City of Portsmouth Transport Department
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 One of the few truly vintage preserved buses is Portsmouth Corporation 10 (BK2986). It is a Thorneycroft "J Type" built in 1919. The bodywork is a Dodson 34 seater built as an open-topper around 1910. The classic bus is owned by Portsmouth City Museums and is on display on Southsea Common at the Southsea Bus Rally alongside Southdown Leyland Titan TD1 873 (UF6472) a relative youngster dating from 1929. |
 Some lucky folk even got to ride on the classic vehicle along Southsea seafront. |
 Leyland Titan TD2 Tower Wagon TW1 (RV3411) was converted from a standard doubledecker. Its body was cut down leaving a crew cab and fitted with an elevating inspection tower primarily for dealing with problems of the trolleybus network overhead. It was used in its later days as a tow truck for recovering motor buses. It has been owned by the Portsmouth City Museums since 1986. It is seen at the 2002 Southsea Rally. |
 Seen at the Alton Rally in 2006 is former 2 (LRV992) a 1958 Orion Titan PD2, its MCW body converted to open top in 1971. Prior to that it was fleet number 100. With changes in ownership in Portsmouth it operated for Southampton, Southdown and Transit Holding's Blue Admiral. It was transferred to Oxford to operate a Thames Transit service to Blenheim Palace. When the Transit companies were taken over by Stagecoach it was painted in Devon General livery for use on Torquay seafront. During that time it was painted gold for Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee and then back into Portsmouth livery as seen here. Finally in 2014 it was painted back in Devon General colours. It was sold to North Yorkshire's Viscount Travel for service, but also an active preservation, being used on Scarborough seafront. |
 Also at Alton in 2006 was sister vehicle 4 (LRV996) - 2 is just visible behind with the colour scheme reversed. |
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