Preserved ex-London bus T40 (reg. WYV 40T), a 1979 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyland_Motors" class="extiw" title="en:Leyland Motors">Leyland</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyland_Titan_(B15)" class="extiw" title="en:Leyland Titan (B15)">Titan (B15)</a>, pictured at the 2003 North Weald bus rally at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Weald_Airfield" class="extiw" title="w:North Weald Airfield">North Weald Airfield</a>, Epping.
<p>The 53rd production Titan, it's from the early batch built by the British Leyland subsidiary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Royal_Vehicles" class="extiw" title="w:Park Royal Vehicles">Park Royal Vehicles</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Royal" class="extiw" title="w:Park Royal">Park Royal</a>, London (later ones were built at Leyland's expanded factory in the Lillyhall Industrial Estate, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workington" class="extiw" title="w:Workington">Workington</a>). As with the vast majority of production, it was delivered new to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Regional_Transport" class="extiw" title="en:London Regional Transport">London Transport</a> as part of the dual-door T-class, allocated fleet number T40.
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Having been withdrawn and bought for preservation in 2001, it's pictured here still in the livery of its last London operator, the privatised <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagecoach_Group" class="extiw" title="en:Stagecoach Group">Stagecoach</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkent" class="extiw" title="w:Selkent">Selkent</a>, complete with depot code TL (Catford garage) and route blinds set for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Buses_route_185" class="extiw" title="w:London Buses route 185">London Buses route 185</a>.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/60099286@N00">Matthew Black</a> from London, UK (original), cropped by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ultra7&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Ultra7 (page does not exist)">Ultra7</a>
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