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Wigan Bus
Wigan Bus
Photo: Dennis Seddon
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Item #: 20029
On the back of this postcard it describes this bus as a 1932 Leyland Tiger TS4 32-seat bus with Santus bodywork, ex Wigan C.T, No 81. It favvers a bit of a "boneshaker" ter me.

Comment by: Margaret Wall on 24th February 2012 at 11:35

It's a lovely old bus and I bet it was very noisy and rattly (is there such a word?) I can't see it holding 32 people though.

Comment by: George Chilvers on 24th February 2012 at 12:13

8 rows, 4 seats across - yes, I can see that holding 32.

Comment by: Cyril on 24th February 2012 at 13:16

32 seater? If that bus was in India there would be room for another hundred on top.

Comment by: Al.C. on 24th February 2012 at 14:07

Good picture, does anybody know if this old bus still exists?

Comment by: Art on 24th February 2012 at 15:10

There was a pub in Leyland named after that model of bus:

The "Leyland Tiger"

Comment by: bill 7 on 24th February 2012 at 15:52

Wigan corporation used a bus like this to run a shuttle service from the balcarres arms pub in haigh down to the hall and back ,memory tells me early fifties

Comment by: Tom Sutch on 24th February 2012 at 17:41

Long way from home now, in the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum, Lathalmond near Dunfermline,Fife.

Comment by: Cyril on 25th February 2012 at 14:58

Thanks for the information Tom, glad it's been saved for posterity and nostalgia.

Comment by: Joan Beckett (Wilding) on 26th February 2012 at 16:37

They used to have a lot of these old buses in Malta, Had some great times at Leyland Tiger Art.

Comment by: graham knight on 14th March 2015 at 19:55

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