Leyland PD2 with Massey bodywork was new to Birkenhead Corporation in 1966.
It is seen here in its later days, the Birkenhead fleet having become part of the
Merseyside fleet, along with the buses of Southport and St Helens Corporations.
L427 looks rather dour with its black painted radiator, and lack of cream paint
around the windows that most other Merseyside buses had in the 1960s & 1970s
as it passes Linacre Lane gasworks in Bootle, Liverpool. It would have looked a
lot better if it was still in its original Birkenhead Corporation livery, as seen on
preserved No, 10, seen here at Leyland. Ray Smyth.
