AN EASTERN COUNTIES LESSON WITH LEYLAND TITAN TD1'S !

Today is a bit of a history lesson for you who perhaps unaware of the rich vein of history that the current First Eastern Counties has, Eastern Counties was formed of four smaller undertakings those being the Peterborough Electric Traction Company Ltd, Ortona Motor Company Ltd of Cambridge, Eastern Counties Road Car Company Ltd and United Automobile Services Ltd and became the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company on the 14th July 1931 although the transfer of the businesses didn't happen until 23rd October 1931. The first picture illustrates a Eastern Counties Road Car Leyland Titan TD1 A141 DX 8356 which kept it's number until 1937 when it was rebodied by E.C.W and increased seating to 53 seats when it became AH 141, alongside is another TD1 which is numbered A167 DX 9019 from 1930 and was also rebodied by E.C.W in 1939 to AH 167, bottom left we see an different TD1 which originally had an E.C.O.C body in 1933 but was rebuilt by E.C.W in January 1942 and became AH 210, seen here in Drummer Street Cambridge and finally to the right at the bottom we see another Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Titan this time A178 NG 1913 which had a new E.C.W body in 1939,and then an E.C.W 2 body in 1950 being withdrawn in 1951, AH 141 was renumbered AH 741 in 1949 before withdrawal a year later, AH 167 in 1951 AH 210 was also renumbered to AH 21 and withdrawn in the same year 1958.