PRESERVATION UPDATE
Chris Stainton’s Plaxton Paramount 3500-bodied Leyland Tiger. Inset shows the cab area with manual gearstick and tigerembossed steering wheel.
JOHN YOUNG/ DONALD BOOTH
Currently resident in Yorkshire is Bournemouth Corporation 167 (6167 RU), a 1963 Leyland Titan PD3A/1 with forward entrance Weymann Orion body. One of Bournemouth’s last front-engined double-deckers, it was part of a batch of 10 sold to Isle of Man Road Services in 1974, where it was registered LMN 78.
ANTHONY THOMPSON
Under the control of new organisers, the Cumbria Easter Rally at Kirkby Stephen and Brough attracted the customary variety of vehicles mainly from Scotland and northern England — and cheated potentially threatening weather.
