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HISTORY LESSON • With reference to working PSVs in Commercial
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Motor 410 August 1988, like the AEC in your article ours has no power steering and an "iffy" synchro gear box, but it is still earning its keep. Here's some details about our vehicle: 1:1 Other operators preferred to rebuild double-deckers. For example, in 1959, Preston Corporation carried out the first of eight similar conversions on a fleet of P1)2/10 Titans with Leyland bodywork.
There were four with lowbridge bodywork (L27-28R) dating equally from 1952 to 1954, plus four 1954 models with a highbridge layout (11301 26R). The lowbridge Titans were rebuilt first, since the railway bridge which had originally demanded their purchase had been raised in the intervening years.
During the same period, the regulations were amended to permit 30ft-long two-axle double-deckers. Therefore, all eight Titans had their chassis converted with new P1)3 main frames. The original bodies were lengthened and, where relevant, converted to high bridge layout (mostly H38I 32F).
Forward entrances and staircases were fitted in place of the former rear entrances. The conversions retained many parts of the original Leyland bodywork. The last two conversions were built to a width of 8ft. Oin. and given fluorescent lighting.
Preston designated the chassis P03/6, but devised its own chassis numbers. The letters PC were followed by the last two numbers of the year of rebuilding, an oblique and the job number. Preston therefore had the distinction of operating the only 7ft. 6in. wide P1)3 type Titans, and the only forwardentrance and 30ft-long Leyland double-deck bodies, albeit greatly converted. A table of the Preston buses follows:—