oiltreader:
Hi cav551, to me just a picture, to you it will mean something with your knowledge of LT.
Oily
Thank you for both of those excellently clear pictures. Bought as trial batch of 50 vehicles the Leyland Atlantean had a short life in LT ownership. This below is the particular bus history from Ian’s Bus Stop site: The transfer of “XA30” and others to East Grinstead had two purposes, to see how the Atlantean coped with a lighter workload in Country area useage and to swap a batch of Fleetlines to Central area useage to see how they coped with the more arduous Central area which had caused problems for the Atlantean.
LT was to buy Fleetlines for the Central area, which they managed to turn into an abject failure because of their meddling with the engineering specification. Ultimately at the last knockings a surprising substitution of Iveco power for Leyland and Gardner produced a bus which worked reliably. After the split London Country successfully bought and ran the Atlantean, something the central area was unable to do.
XA 30 CUV 30C 8/65 FW new, delivered to Fulwell for storage
10/65 HT change store (Highgate)
11/65 CF into service on 24 (Chalk Farm)
6/66 AR transfer for 76, 34B (Tottenham)
5/67 EG transfer for 424, 435, 438C (East Grinstead)
1968 EG
3/69 SF transfer (Stamford Hill)
7/69 SF to Aldenham overhaul
11/69 converted to omo
11/69 NX from o/h, unlicensed (New Cross)
1/70 NX trainer…
1/70 PM transfer for P3 (omo) (Peckham)
1971 PM
12/72 PM repaint
1/73 PM withdrawn into store (Peckham)
3/73 sold to China Bus Company, Hong Kong
BD 1343 Hong Kong registration