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Double-decker bus bodywork built for Manchester Corporation This article is about the bus bodywork of the 1960s. For the bus chassis of the 1930s, see Crossley Mancunian.

Motor vehicle
Mancunian double-decker bus
Preserved Mancunian Leyland Atlantean at the Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester
Overview
ManufacturerPark Royal
East Lancs
Metro Cammell
Charles H Roe
Body and chassis
Doors1-2
Floor typeStep entrance
ChassisDaimler Fleetline
Leyland Atlantean

The Mancunian double-decker bus is a type of bodywork for double-decker bus designed by Manchester Corporation Transport Department (MCT) and built on Leyland Atlantean and Daimler Fleetline chassis. A total of 472 Mancunians were ordered by the department between 1965 and 1968 and delivered from 1968 until 1972 with bodywork by Park Royal, East Lancs, Metro Cammell and Charles H Roe. The first 96 buses ordered (48 each from Leyland and Daimler) used a 30-foot (9.1 m) chassis, but the majority were 33 feet (10 m) long. A further 20 were built for Salford City Transport (SCT) but were delivered new to SELNEC PTE.

Nine have been preserved.

Summary of deliveries
Numbers Quantity Registrations Chassis Body make Seats Type code
1001–48 48 HVM 901–948F Leyland 'Atlantean' PDR1/1 Park Royal H45/28D 86
1051–97 47 LNA 151–197G Leyland 'Atlantean' PDR2/1 Park Royal H47/29D 89
1101–16 16 NNB 510–525H Leyland 'Atlantean' PDR2/1 Park Royal H47/28D 89
1117–26 10 NNB 526–535H Leyland 'Atlantean' PDR2/1 Park Royal H47/28D 93
1131–42 12 NNB 536–547H Leyland 'Atlantean' PDR2/1 East Lancs H47/32F 92
1143–54 12 NNB 548–559H Leyland 'Atlantean' PDR2/1 East Lancs H47/26D 89
1161–94 34 ONF 849–882H Leyland 'Atlantean' PDR2/1 Park Royal H47/28D 89
1201–20 20 SRJ 324–343H Leyland 'Atlantean' PDR2/1 Metro-Cammell H47/31D 99
2001–48 48 HVM 801–848F Daimler 'Fleetline' CRG6LX Park Royal H45/28D 87
2051–92 42 LNA 251–292G Daimler 'Fleetline' CRG6LX-33 Park Royal H47/28D 90
2093–97 5 LNA 293–297G Daimler 'Fleetline' CRG6LXB-33 Park Royal H47/28D 91
2101–39 39 NNB 560–598H Daimler 'Fleetline' CRG6LXB-33 Park Royal H47/28D 91
2140–44 5 NNB 599–603H Daimler 'Fleetline' CRG6LXB-33 Park Royal H47/28D 94
2151–2161 11 ONF 883–893H Daimler 'Fleetline' CRG6LXB-33 Metro-Cammell H47/30D 98
2162–2210 49 PNA 201–249J Daimler 'Fleetline' CRG6LXB-33 Metro-Cammell H47/30D 98
2211–70 60 RNA 211–270J Daimler 'Fleetline' CRG6LXB-33 Park Royal H47/29D 98
2271–2304 34 SVR 271–304K Daimler 'Fleetline' CRG6LXB-33 Roe H47/29D 98
  • Nos. 1201–20 were ordered by SCT; the rest were ordered by MCT.
  • Nos. 1001–48/51–97, 1131–42, 2001–48/51–97 were delivered to MCT; the rest were delivered to SELNEC.
  • Nos. 2271–2304 were intended to be bodied by East Lancs, but a fire at their works led to the order being transferred to Park Royal, who sub-contracted it to Roe.

The codes for seats denote: H – highbridge-layout double-deck bus (one with central gangways on both decks, as opposed to the lowbridge double-deck bus with a side gangway on the upper deck); this is followed by the number of seats on the upper and lower decks; then either D for dual doors (front entrance, centre exit) or F for front entrance/exit.

References

  1. ^ Manchester City Transport's New Mancurian Selnec Preservation Society
  2. Telfer, R.L.; Witton, Alan M., eds. (June 1977). Fleetbook 1: Buses of Greater Manchester (3rd ed.). Manchester: A.M. Witton. pp. 14–15, 17–18. ISBN 0-86047-013-X.

External links

Media related to Mancunian Leyland Atlanteans and Daimler Fleetlines at Wikimedia Commons


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