Buses, coaches, & lorries

ParkRoyal2100:

John West:
Obstinacy was not confined to the Brits.

Quite so, though I can’t speak reliably about others.

John West:
…Leyland had shipped one single decker (I wasn’t really into buses, but I’m sure it was one of those that they built in Workington, whose name I can’t remember.) .

Probably the Leyland National. Given it only came with the Headless Wonder (the 0.500 series) that wouldn’t have gone over with their prospective clients very well.

Leyland National, that’s the one. Why did companies insist on only offering what they wanted to sell instead of listening to what the customer wanted. Another example of this was in Nigeria, where I was told they loved the Morris Marina (honest!) but as in all African and Middle Eastern countries, they spent their lives pressing the horn, so the horn on the stalk wasn’t robust enough, they wanted to be able to lean on a boss on the steering wheel. Allegedly BL wouldn’t change it.

John.