Friday 8 April 2016

A Halton East-Lancs bodied Leopard HEN 868N

A less well known member of Halton Transport  in Cheshire and once Lancashire town of Widnes was this unusual Northern Counties short Leyland Leopard which came from nearby Chester City. With so many Leyland Nationals or grant body coaches entering service there were very few other single-deck buses entering service in the mid-Eighties but when it came to small Municipal orders like these four the work usually went to East Lancs who still built one offs to the customers spec or even Duple who also supplied buses to Chester.
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3 comments:

  1. ants25 June 2016 at 14:20

    a lot of halton drivers did like this one, who use to work for halton at the time, called Tony Miller hated it more than any of the drivers

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  2. ants9 January 2017 at 18:28

    my mistake a lot of halton drivers did not like this bus, one driver who use to work for halton at the time, called Tony Miller hated it more than any of the drivers

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  3. christopher7 February 2017 at 14:27

    Perhaps it was the layout of the cab or just heavy to drive but of course Halton already had a few East Lancs leopards before the RE's arrived, at least if nothing else the National Mark1 was a drivers bus and those must have spoilt the lads at Widnes.

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