Busworld Photography: Two generations of Duple Leyland Coaches

BUSWORLD PHOTOGRAPHY

I AM CHRISTOPHER LEACH THE ARTIST. I started this blog so that I can share with everyone my vast collection of transport photographs showing a personal and nostalgic view of the industry with images that span some 45 years taking in the U.K and some of Europe. I have no darkroom and so rather than being the perfectionist after tidying them up I upload the images warts and all, and even those that won't scan squarely or are scratched. In a way it adds age and character. You are all free to download these for your personal use but please remember I still own them and you are not just free to use them without prior permission for any knd of publishing. Click on images to enlarge them and if you want to see more leave your comments or visit my website for the mother-site with galleries including those Buses & Girls: PICTUREWORLD

Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Two generations of Duple Leyland Coaches

A Leyland Leopard belonging to Crosville in National Express colours leaving on the 825 which I think was to Holyhead on Anglesea, prepares to slog it out out of Digbeth as a fairly new Duple Caribbean bodied Tiger in the attractive metallic blue livery of Premier Travel heads off on the much more gentle flat run east towards Cambridge. The Leopard dated from 1979 but because of the high-line continental styling on the Tiger few would have guessed there was only five years difference in their age.