Albion Valiant CX39N, chassis 60309D

Body: Roe GO4561 (May 1958)

Date new: November 1950

TWY 8 is a rebodied chassis. The chassis was originally under a Burlingham coach body, numbered 57 in the fleet of South Yorkshire Motors, and registered JWT 112.

The chassis was used to construct South Yorkshire Motors (Pontefract) number 81 (TWY 8) in 1958. The double-deck body was built by Roe of Leeds as L27/26RD layout. The original Burlingham body was fitted to South Yorkshire Motors 51, which became number 57 and registered as DYG 53. This vehicle also still survives today in preservation.

At the moment work is in progress on TWY 8. The bus is almost ready for the MOT test, and may even hit the rally scene in 2010.

This interesting advert appeared in newspapers around 1970. Ironically the bus lasted longer than Williams & Glyn's Bank, and is now three times its age when the advert appeared!

Thanks to the Albion Club for the newspaper cutting.  Click this logo to see their website:

There are a few other interesting pictures on other websites.

Click the underlined links to see them.

TWY 8 in service - pictured in Leeds Bus Station, 1969.

TWY 8 on the Transpennine Run in her early preservation days, 1973.

TWY 7 (the original one!) in Leeds Bus Station, 1958.

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