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Long associated with the traditional Southdown fleet has been the class of vehicles known as the
Queen Mary Titans. These Leyland PD3s were unusual in having full front bodywork on a normally
half-cab chassis. The bodies were all built by Northern Counties. The buses lasted in service for a
long time and many found further use in the UK and abroad, notably Hong Kong. There were 30
convertible open toppers amongst them and in 1966, 410 (410DCD) is captured here in Brighton on a
late dash out to Devil's Dyke, hopefully to return the last of the Day Trippers.
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Sister vehicle 409 (409DCD) is seen 34 years later, preserved, on display at the Southampton Bus Rally.
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Back to the sixties again, and fully roofed 971 (971CUF)
is seen laying over on Worthing sea front.
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Back to 2000 and Southampton again, this time preserved Queen Mary 279 (BUF279C) displays here
fine lines in the rare sunshine of Summer 2000.
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 Taking part in the "Clash of the Titans" display at EFE SHOWBUS International 2002 is Queen Mary open topper 409 (409DCD). |
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