Buses, coaches, & lorries

240 Gardner:
That’s absolutely right - some of the 36’ Leopards were reduced to 45 seats, with large luggage pens on each side at the front of the saloon, due to a union agreement about one-man-operation. This would be around 1970-ish. This was most inconvenient when an 11 year old boy, on the way home from school, wanted to sit at the front and watch the driver! :laughing: They were later reverted to 53 seat

Close scrutiny of one of Ray’s photos shows the absence of the front two rows of seats:

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