Metro-Cammell-bodied Leyland Titan (London Transport fleet number RTL554).

For rear-engine Leyland Titan built in 1970s/1980s, see Leyland Titan (B15).

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After Leyland ended the production of Leyland Titan in UK, Ashok Leyland of India took up the production and marketed the bus in South Asia as Ashok Leyland Titan, which is still in production. British Leyland corporate logo old BLMC share The British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC), was a vehicle manufacturing company formed in the United Kingdom in 1968. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... South Asia or Southern Asia is a southern geopolitical region of the Asian continent comprising territories on and in proximity to the Indian subcontinent & the Iranian Plateau. ...

Titans in London

After London Transport was established in 1933, it took over hundards of Leyland Titans from independent bus operators in London. Founded in 1933 by an act of Parliament under Transport Minister Herbert Stanley Morrison, The London Passenger Transport Board generally known London Transport was A public authority appointed under act of Parliament, charged with responsibility for providing an adequate and properly co-ordinated system of passenger transport (Buses including Green... For other uses, see London (disambiguation). ...

After World War II, London Transport received more than 2000 Leyland Titans specifically designed for use in London. They were numbered as the RTL (short for Regent Three Leyland) and RTW class.

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