Oldham's 179 was one of a small batch of Leyland TD5s fitted with Leyland's own coachwork. They were smart and long-lived buses. As can be seen clearly in this view, prewar Oldham buses had an offside destination blind (earlier postwar ones had a number blind there, later ones nothing at all). On the Leyland bodies it was placed further forward than on those by Roe. This photograph shows the bus parked up during the day on St. Peter Street, which led off the upper end of George Street.

Photograph by courtesy of The Bus Archive/Roy Marshall