{"id":86,"date":"2025-10-06T16:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpptd.com\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2025-10-20T19:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:09:18","slug":"museum-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cpptd.com\/?page_id=86","title":{"rendered":"Portsmouth City Museum Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>City of Portsmouth Museums and Records Service vehicles<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"289\" class=\"wp-image-1018\" style=\"width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cpptd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/museum-1.gif\" alt=\"\"><\/td><td><strong>Crossley Condor (RV720)<\/strong><br><br>Built 1931 with Short Brothers 48-seat double deck bodywork as No.74<br>Converted to breakdown wagon in 1948<br>Withdrawn in 1972<br>RV 720 is the country&#8217;s sole surviving Crossley Condor<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"289\" class=\"wp-image-1019\" style=\"width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cpptd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/museum-2.gif\" alt=\"\"><\/td><td><strong>Leyland TD2 no.TW1 (RV3411)<\/strong><br><br>Built 1933 for Portsmouth Corporation with English Electric 50-seat double dekc body<br>One of two Leyland converted to Tower Wagons for maintenance of overhead wires<br>Trolleybus operation ceased in 1963, but TW1 was retained for street lighting maintenance<br>Passed to Portsmouth City Museums and Records Service&#8217;s Transport Collection<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"289\" class=\"wp-image-1020\" style=\"width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cpptd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/museum-3.gif\" alt=\"\"><\/td><td><strong>AEC 661T Trolleybus (RV4649)<\/strong><br><br>Built 1934 for Portsmouth Corporation with English electric 50-seat deck body<br>Withdrawn in 1958 and stored at Eastney Depot<br>Donated to Montague Motor Museum at Beaulieu<br>In 1972 was acquired by Portsmouth City Museums and Records Office.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Portsmouth Museums and Records Service vehicles Crossley Condor (RV720) Built 1931 with Short Brothers 48-seat double deck bodywork as No.74Converted to breakdown wagon in 1948Withdrawn in 1972RV 720 is the country&#8217;s sole surviving Crossley Condor Leyland TD2 no.TW1 (RV3411) Built 1933 for Portsmouth Corporation with English Electric 50-seat<span class=\"more-link theme-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cpptd.com\/?page_id=86\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1020,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","author-cpptd-com","post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpptd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpptd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpptd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpptd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpptd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cpptd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/cpptd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpptd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpptd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}