Isn't it always the case that when you return from holiday you find that your favourite photograph is blurred or streaked by the Baghdad Airport X.Ray scanning machine that tells you it's harmless to film. As you can probably judge by now my favourite buses overall are Leylands of a certain age complete with the manufacturer's badges and wheel trims and this United Tours coach caught baking in the mid-day sun during Easter 1984 at Neviot in the Sinai was a real beauty even without it's Royal Tiger Worldmaster badge.
United Tours purchased no less than 68 units of these Merkavim-bodied LERT 1/1 (Royal Tiger Worldmaster), between 1968 and 1971. With Leyland's monopoly over by late 1971, UT went for Turkish-made MAN (MANAŞ 590HO-R), and was eventually sold to DAN in 1976.
ReplyDeleteThis 337263, a 1972 modelyear chassis, is one of the last three Leylands bought by UT, and is bearing a DAN fleet number (2124) in this picture. It was out of service in 1984
Lert, thanks for your highly knowlegable comments as usual. I'm glad someone is interested in my photos of buses in Israel as from a British point of view I came at a good time. I'm just sorry this isn't a better shot as the coach was a beauty.
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