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Leeds City Transport
TUA31/32/33
Update
Since being profiled on The Wakefield Files there has been no positive attempt to rescue the three ex Leeds standee saloons resting in a scrap yard at Linton. Despite an initial interest from the Keighley Bus Museum, no one has come forward to save these rare buses, or for that matter the Bedford SB8 & Commer Avenger. Unfortunately the yard owner Mr Smith is not being very co-operative, & is unwilling to clear other vehicles & scrap metal in the yard to enable them to be removed. So for the time being they look like staying there for the foreseeable future, unless someone can make it worth his while to get them out.
Found within the same south Cambridgeshire scrap yard are these three former Leeds City Transport experimental Roe "standee saloons" Nearest to the camera is TUA 31, with TUA 32 in the centre and TUA 33 at the far end.
Rear view of the vehicles with TUA 31 on the left.
Interior views of the experimental Roe bodies, the upper view is that of TUA 31, while the lower view shows the inside of TUA 32. Fleet numbers can just be made out on the front bulkheads.
Our thanks to Peter Relf, who most of you will known across the "net", for providing the following very detail information on these vehicles.
TUA 31 Leyland PSUC1 Roe B34C, new 1955.
TUA 32/3 AEC Reliance MU3RV210/1 Roe B34C, new 1954 .
Leeds City Transport 31-33.
Leeds had a batch of 8 buses (TUA 29-36) with identical Roe bodies built to Leeds' own design. They were experimental "standee" vehicles, built at a time when buses were normally fully-seated. Three different chassis makes were involved in this small batch: Leyland (29-31), AEC (32-34), and Guy (35/6).
An amazing find. I didn't know they still existed. What condition are they in ?
The following has been received from Trevor Williams
"Hello and thanks for the info on the Leeds CT saloons. No doubt someone will have provided further info by now but just in case all I can find was that they were sold to PLC Contractors of Camden Town in 1969, believed for use as mobile site huts! I always thought they were lost forever.
My interest lies with my 1956 LCT Regent V, which has been stored for too long, much stripped, down and ready for a full restoration. If there are any seats etc. that could be reused from these Cambridge buses I would be interested. I would naturally like to see a rescue but one major project is enough for now. Perhaps if you have heard from anyone with any aspirations you would let me know or please pass on my email.
Keep up the good work."
Trevor if you are reading this can you please email me with a working email address please.
Thank you. Richard
My grateful thanks to Peter Relf once again for supplying and allowing me to use his photograph of sister TUA 30, which was taken by Peter in August 1963. Please click here to view the image
Have you any information on these vehicles?
Who did Leeds CT sell them too and when?
Telephone John Wakefield on 01223 843802
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