In September 2019 KEL131, a 1950 Weymann bodied Leyland Titan PD2/3 arrived in South West Devon for restoration. 

Restoration has required the removal of all seating to allow the old flooring to be pulled up and replaced, as well as to have the sides re-fabriced. One of the guards over the wheelarch has had to be added custom made, as well as parts being taken from scrapped donor sister bus, KEL127. This model also has large numbers of wooden panels which surround the windows, as well as line the roof, which have all been removed, sanded and re-varnished. 

The arrival of Covid in 2020 saw advancements inevitably stall, but by the start of this year work on her has returned as normal. With the upper deck largely completed work is now focused on the lower deck, cab and staircase. Window pans are soon to be re-fitted, which when done will allow for the wooden window surrounds to be re-fitted. The cab has now been sanded down and prepared for painting, as well as having its chrome parts cleaned up.   

Above: The lower deck, which on arrival was used as a store for various parts, was unsurprisingly in rather less good nick, with some of the wooden window sections missing. Dampness had also affected the lower section a bit more as well, which made the removal of many of the pieced harder as most of the screws and fitting where rusted or corroded over. Happily the actual wooden flooring itself was in very good condition still.

Above: By Winter of 2019 the upper-deck had been stripped out, and at the start of 2020 the wooden frames sanded down and re-varnished.