Bus Rally At The British Motor Museum, Gaydon, Warwickshire, 6th July 2024.

The bus rally at the British Motor Museum, Gaydon, on the 6th July 2024 was organised by the Transport Museum at Wythall, Birmingham. Buses from Birmingham and the West Midlands were well represented plus a cavalcade of (mostly) Royal Blue coaches.

[@francis295]

How old are the buses

[@bobhodgestransportDVDs]

The oldest buses are the Birmingham Corporation AEC and Daimler (seen in the first clip) which date from the 1930's, most of the rest of the buses date from the 1950's through to the 1990's.

[@francis295]

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs Thanks for your quick response.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

It is nice to see the Leyland Titan 7001 back in it's correct WMPTE Livery inteatd ithe Midlasnd classic livery it carried for a while

[@bobhodgestransportDVDs]

As a Londoner it was nice to see the rare sight of a Leyland Titan from outside London.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs This Leyland Titan was one of 5 operated by the West Midlands PTE and were sold to London Transport for service in London being non standard in Birmingham and the WMPTE, after ending service in London it was sold to Midland Classic buses and then preserved in their livery and look like now it has reverted to WMPTE livery at last and looks very smart indeed

[@bobhodgestransportDVDs]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 I thought it went to London along with the other Titans in the WM fleet, I agree that it looks superb in the WM PTE livery. The only other operator that had Titans as far as I can remember was Reading Corporation, I think that one is preserved out of the 12 that they had.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs Yes, they were numbered 7001,7002,7003,7004 and 7005 and were purchased after an initial trial of the Leyland Titan Demonstrator was tried out and ran in conjunction with 5 Metrobuses all spread over variouse West Midlands Garages in Birmingham, the Black Country and Coventry with this Leyland Titan 7001 and Metrobus 6831 running from Washwood Heath Garage hence the detination it has on it number 93 Birmingham City Centre to Kingshurst via Saltley, Washwood Heath and Castle Bromwich originally the number 160 under the Midland Red, I travelled on this bus many times when living in Washwood Heath, Birmingham on both the 93 and 94 bus services but Park Royal were more interested in supplying London Transport, so the WMPTE turned to MCW and their Metrobus which became after the Daimler Fleetline the WMPTE's standard bus and the 5 Leyland Titans sold to London Transport and I believe were painted at Perry Barr depot into London Transport Livery and sent to run with London Transport. When London Transport started scrapping them I believe they were sold to a company called Midland Classic Buses, but it is nice to see this back in WMPTE livery, a lot of the Volvo Ailsa's you also see in this video wre sold to London Transport as well, instead the WMPTE got clapped out DMS buses in return

[@EE16SVT]

wrong Titan, that was 7004