The Leyland Titan TD3 certainly marked a visual step forward in design with the deeper radiator. 58 was the first of this model with Oldham and the first of forty-one Titans to be bodied by English Electric in the 1930s, making them the second most important body supplier to Oldham in this period (after Roe). 58 is on High Street and heading for Grotton on the O service, it was only later on that workings to Grotton gained a separate route letter T.

Photograph by courtesy of The Bus Archive/Roy Marshall