Thursday 17th November 1927

The Leyland Titan double deck bus was introduced in Britain. Its low chassis set a significant trend in bus design that lasted for forty years. Among its outstanding features was its 6.8-litre six-cylinder overhead-camshaft petrol engine, in unit with a four-speed sliding-mesh gearbox with straight-line drive to an underslung worm rear axle whose differential was offset to reduce gangway floor height on the lower deck. Vacuum-servo brakes were standard on all four wheels and a sharp drop in its rear frame gave a low platform entry. It was the first lowbridge double-deck bus body and as a result of the offset upper-deck gangway with four-abreast seating to the nearside the Titan could carry 48 or more seated passengers, all within a 25 ft long , 13 feet 1 inch high body.