The Amberley Museum in Sussex is home to a preserved vintage garage and numerous vehicles of different ages. The Southdown bus pictured is a Leyland Titan TD1 and traveled between Eastbourne and surrounding coastal towns. The Leyland Titan was a forward-control chassis with a front-mounted engine designed to carry double-decker bus bodywork. It was built mainly for the UK market between 1927 and 1942, and between 1945 and 1969.
The type was widely used in the United Kingdom and it was also successful in export markets, with numerous examples shipped to Australia, Ireland, India, Spain, South Africa and many other countries. From 1946 specific export models were introduced, although all Titans were right-hand drive regardless of the rule of the road in customer countries.
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