This June 1955 photo would be special just by virtue of the bus being a Manchester Leyland PD1/3, but it is also a superb portrait of the crew. The guard (never a conductor in Manchester) sports a TIM ticket machine whilst on the floor to the right of the driver can be seen two enamel billy cans. In my experience these were usually filled up at the MCTD time office at Dean Lane on the return from Greenfield, the crew then having a ten minute layover at the terminus here to have a brew. The use by Manchester of a PD1 on the hilly routes to Saddleworth at this time is rather surprising.

Photograph by Ray Dunning, courtesy of Peter Thompson.