Private Owner (preservation)/

Leyland Atlantean / East Lancs #133

2 august 2009 - Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire (UK) – This Atlantean was new to Southampton City Transport in 1970 and lasted in service until the late 1980s before being preserved.
Author: dvigar edytor

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Leyland Atlantean / East Lancs #139

2 august 2009 - Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire (UK) - New to Southampton City Transport as their #139, this bus was converted to open top and retained by them for city tours and private hire work. In 1995 it was sold to Guide Friday, who used it in Bournemouth, as seen here.
Author: dvigar edytor

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Leyland Atlantean / East Lancs #LYF 307 D

2 may 2010 - Redhill, UK - Brighton Road: The preserved 1966 BOAC shuttle coach on its way to Brighton. This was one of fifteen Leyland Atlanteans specially built with bodies by Roe Coachworks for transporting passengers from the West London Air Terminal to Heathrow Airport. There were just 16 high quality seats downstairs and 18 upstairs, the remaining space being taken up by luggage space and a toilet. In these days, air passengers were afforded every luxury and could take as much baggage as they wished. BOAC was one of two UK national airlines, the other being British European Airways, which only served short haul destinations - BOAC went everywhere else.
Author: dvigar edytor

Leyland Atlantean / East Lancs #UWH 185

17 august 2015 - Bolton, Zajezdnia Firstu przy Great Lever.
Author: Karol Koronowski

Leyland Atlantean / East Lancs #WOW 529 J

2 august 2009 - Gosport, UK - Stokes Bay: This Leyland Atlantean PDR/1A was new to Southampton in 1968 and later passed to Guide Friday, who removed the roof and employed it on Bournemouth tours. The Guide Friday company operated in a number of historic towns and cities in Great Britain, often using quite elderly vehicles. The Leyland Atlantean caused a major impact when first introduced in the mid-1950s, offering a practical rear-engine layout suitable for one person operation at a time when staffing costs were making separate conductors too expensive for many routes. The design wasn`t entirely successful to begin with, however, having major mechanical `teething problems` for the first few years - it was only in the early 1960s that the previous front-engine, rear entrance layout was finally abandoned.
Author: dvigar edytor