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  • Ribble – Leyland Atlantean – RRN 407 – 1807

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    Ribble Motor Services1962Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Weymann “Orion” L39/33F Ribble bought a hundred early Atlanteans with MCW “Orion” bodywork in 1959/60, seventy highbridge and thirty lowbridge. These were followed by a reversion to the Titan model, with ninety five PD3/5’s with Metro-Camell “Orion” fully fronted bodies in 1961/2. These were followed by fourteen lowbridge Atlanteans, including this…

  • Sheffield Corporation – Leyland Atlantean – 655 BWB – 225

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    Sheffield Corporation1962Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Metro Cammell H44/33F This bus was one of a batch of nine supplied new to the B fleet as fleet number 1355. This batch were extensively used from new on service 41 to Hackenthorpe where there was a large new housing development. They were the first rear engined double deckers for the…

  • Devon General – Leyland Atlantean – 901 DTT – DL901

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    Devon General Omnibus & Touring Co Ltd1960Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Roe H44/31F The ugly lines of the Park Royal inspired Roe bodies on the early Atlantean chassis are barely disguised by the Devon General livery in this photo taken in Teignmouth on a sunny day in July 1973. I suppose we should be thankful that it hasn’t…

  • Silver Star – Leyland Atlantean – 1013 MW – 42

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    Silver Star Motor Services  1962Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Weymann L39/34F A Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 with Weymann L73F body, joining the fleet of Silver Star, Porton Down near Salisbury, in 1962. This first view shows her on duty in Winchester, during the King Alfred running day on 1 January 2010. I couldn’t resist this second view, as it’s the…

  • King Alfred – Leyland Atlantean – REU 52E/HOR592E

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    King Alfred Motor Services1967Leyland Atlantean PDR1/2Roe H43/33F Here is a Leyland Atlantean PDR1/2 with Roe H76F body, from the fleet of King Alfred Motor Services, Winchester. EU was a Brecknockshire (or Breconshire) registration before 1974, when it passed to Bristol, and King Alfred Motor Services never bought any buses from an operator in that area,…

  • Ribble – Leyland Atlantean – RRN 428 – 1279

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    Ribble Motor Services1962Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Weymann CH39/20F Here are two views of RRN 428, one of Ribble’s ‘second generation’ fleet of “White Ladies”. She is a Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 with Weymann CH59F bodywork – more than on the “Gay Hostess” fleet because there is no toilet, but less than the normal bus seating because the rear…

  • Wallasey Corporation – Leyland Atlantean – FHF 451 – 1

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    Wallasey Corporation Transport1958Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Metro-Cammell H44/33F Cheshire’s seaside resort is New Brighton, part of Wallasey. Wallasey is credited in some sources as having the first Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 in public service, and here is: FHF 451. It dates from 1958 and has a Metropolitan Cammell H77F body. A legend surrounds the peculiar colour. Many of…

  • Portsmouth Corporation – Leyland Atlantean – 224 BTP – 224

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    Portsmouth Corporation1963Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Metro Cammell H43/33F The production Atlantean appeared in 1958, but the early examples proved troublesome and expensive to maintain. Nevertheless, the concept appealed to several operators, and, by 1963, Portsmouth Corporation, long time devotees of the Leyland marque, must have thought the risk to be worthwhile, for it bought a batch of…

  • Ribble – Leyland Atlantean – RRN 414 – 1814

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    Ribble Motor Services1962Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Weymann L39/33F Seen in August 1969 in less than pristine condition leaving Manchester’s Lower Mosley Street Bus Station (often confusing us slow witted southerners by appearing on bus destination blinds as “Manchester LMS”) is Ribble 1814, the last of a batch of fourteen Weymann bodied lowbridge Atlanteans on the original PDR1/1…

  • B.O.A.C. – Leyland Atlantean – LYF 304D

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    British Overseas Airways Corporation1966Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1MCW CH38/16F In 1940, with Britain at war and civilian air traffic barely existent, Croydon based Imperial Airways formally subsumed the privately owned (though nationally subsidised) British Airways at Heston and became BOAC, though this had been the de facto situation since September 1939. At the end of the war,…