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Ribble – Leyland Panther – ACK 774B – 774
Ribble Motor Services1964Leyland Panther PSUR1/2RTMarshall DP49F Odd man out in the Ribble fleet for over ten years was the first production Leyland Panther, which I photographed outside the September 1964 Earls Court Commercial Motor Show.It is possible that it entered Ribble service for a spell before the show, and early on in its career it…
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Lancaster City Transport – Leyland Panther – LTC 109F – 109
Lancaster City Transport1968Leyland Panther PSUR1/1REast Lancs B53F LTC 109F fleet number 109 is a Leyland Panther PSUR1/1R with East Lancs B53F body, new to Lancaster in 1968. The batch was in maroon and cream livery then, but we see it in ‘post merger’ livery of blue and white, on the sunny evening of 20 May…
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Maidstone & District – Leyland Panther – LKT 132F – 3132
Maidstone & District1968Leyland Panther PSUR1/1RStrachans B48F LKT 132F is a Leyland Panther PSUR1/1R new to Maidstone & District in 1968. It has a Strachan B48F body, somewhat unusual for a BET firm, and we see it in the Netley rally on 14 July 1996 so the body at least is more or less ‘home’ as…
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Maidstone & District – Leyland Panther – JKK 199E – S99
Maidstone & District1967Leyland Panther PSUR1/1RWillowbrook B45F This photo of Maidstone & District Leyland Panther No S99 reg JKK 199E with Willowbrook B45F bodywork was new in April 1967 prior to the renumbering to 3099 so was probably taken in the summer of that year outside Southdown’s Pevensey Road bus station. M&D had I believe ninety…
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Bradford Corporation – Leyland Panther – NAK 512H – 512
Bradford Corporation Transport1969Leyland Panther PSUR1A/1Marshall B45D For 1969, Bradford Corporation ordered ten chassis of the rear horizontal engine variety, its first new single deckers since a couple of AEC Reliances in 1958. The ten new chassis were split between AEC’s Swift and Leyland’s Panther, but, since the chassis design of the two types was virtually…
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East Yorkshire – Leyland Panther – JRH 323E – 823
East Yorkshire1967Leyland Panther PSUR1/2RWeymann Topaz II The Panther and Panther Cub were Leyland Motors’ rear underfloor-engined offerings during the mid- to late-1960’s. By this time AEC had been taken over and its Swift model shared the same chassis as the Panther, each using their own engines (O600/O680 and AH505/691 respectively), the Panther having a front…
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J Fishwick & Sons – Leyland Olympic – NTC 232 – 13
J Fishwick & Sons1951Leyland OlympicMetro Cammell Weymann B44F I took this photo as I have previously said on a trip to the Fishwick depot at Leyland in Lancashire considering there location it is hardly surprising what vehicles they favoured. There livery was and probably still is a Moss Green and Dark Green which was different…
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Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Olympic – RPA 771 – 211
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1952Leyland Olympic HR44 Weymann B44F Sheffield bought three early Leyland Olympics in 1951 and followed up two years later by the acquisition of this former Demonstrator. It put in a good service life lasting until 1968 when it was sold to Dodd, (Dealer) in Dromera, Ireland. I wonder if it found a…
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Royal Household – Leyland Lioness – YT 3738
Royal Household1927Leyland Lioness PLC1Thurgood C26F (1938) A view of a vehicle operated by the Royal Household has appeared in these columns already, in the form of PYY 28D, but YT 3738 appears to be a different animal altogether, being noted as bought new by King George V himself. A Leyland Lioness PLC1, with Leyland body,…
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Williamson’s – Leyland Lion – DV 4117 – 24
A George H Bullock photograph (courtesy Roger Monk) Williamson’s of Bridlington1930Leyland Lion LT1Hall Lewis B32? Here is a picture of one of my very favourite Williamson’s vehicles from when I was a child staying frequently in Bridlington. Williamson’s fleet could always be relied upon to provide a wide variety of real gems, and a particular…