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  • East Yorkshire – Leyland Panther – GAT 801D – 801

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    East Yorkshire Motor Services1966Leyland Panther PSUR1/2RMarshall B49F A pair of Panthers owned by East Yorkshire with Marshall bodywork. If you click on Daimler or Halifax Corporation in the side navigation and scroll down to the Daimler Roadliner you can see the similarity of the Marshall bodywork somehow the Daimler has one more seat. The Panther…

  • Manchester Corporation – Leyland Panther – GND 87E – 87

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    Manchester City Transport1967Leyland Panther PSUR1/1MCW B40D It may seem barely credible now, but in the early 1960s Manchester Corporation was planning a future without double-deckers. They had realised (possibly before anyone else) that the days of the bus conductor were numbered, but at that time only a single-decker could be operated legally without one. As…

  • Ribble – Leyland Panther – ACK 774B – 774

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    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…

  • Lancaster City Transport – Leyland Panther – LTC 109F – 109

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    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…

  • Maidstone & District – Leyland Panther – LKT 132F – 3132

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    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…

  • Maidstone & District – Leyland Panther – JKK 199E – S99

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    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…

  • Bradford Corporation – Leyland Panther – NAK 512H – 512

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    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…

  • East Yorkshire – Leyland Panther – JRH 323E – 823

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    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…