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Leyland Motors: Panther

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Note: This is a sub-section of Leyland Motors

The Leyland Panther was a rear-engined single-deck bus chassis built by Leyland between 1964 and 1972.

It was sold to a number of operators in the United Kingdom, Australia, Argentina, Denmark, the Netherlands and New Zealand.

The largest quantity of Panthers was purchased by Brisbane, Queensland, Australia who purchased 340. Storstockholms Lokaltrafik AB, SL, in Sweden took 200 LHD ones with bodywork by Park Royal Vehicles. In total, over 639 Panthers were bodied as buses for UK operators and about 700 chassis were built for export.

Panthers were also built as coaches with a high straight chassis frame (PSUR1/2), most of these being exported to Argentinian coach operators and locally bodied. 27 Coaches for the UK were bodied by Plaxton, 18 went to Seamarks, Luton, one each to Soudley Valley Coaches and Bere Regis and District, four to Skills of Nottingham and three to East Yorkshire Motor Services, who had nineteen of this variant new (and one ex-Ribble) with bus outline Marshall bodies and the two other UK coaches which had Metro-Cammell bodies.


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