Heritage Test Drive | Leyland Olympian
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- In issue 1492 we take a brief look at the history of Leyland’s Olympian. The Olympian was unveiled at the 1980 Commercial Motor Show, and the first production examples entered service 40 years ago in 1981. To mark the event, we took one of Johnson Bros.’ oldest buses, ECW-bodied B736 GCN, for a trip around Worksop - with bonus footage of some later Northern Counties-bodied examples in the Redfern Travel fleet, complete with original Leyland wheeltrims!
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For a fleet of vehicles of that age, they are immaculate. Big credit to Johnsons/Redferns for the effort that goes into the upkeep of their fleet
They ran Bristol VR's all the way til the late 2000's and most got sold on for preservation or abroad. Their maintenance is second to none.
Takes me back to my youth, when Tyne & Wear PTE began to phase out their magnificent Scania Metropolitan 111 fleet, in favour of a fleet of brand new 'C' reg Leyland Olympians, in late 1985. The Olympians were more refined but felt slow to ride on, againt the hugely torquey, 2 speed auto (not a typo - only 2 gears!!) Scania 111s! The Olympians ran alongside the ancient but indestructable Leyland Atlanteans, for a number of years, up to and well past deregulation in 1986, when the buses transferred to Busways Ltd. A few Olympians (no Atlanteans) even survived right up until the start of the Stagecoach era.
The TWPTE Olympians were very sluggish and dull compared to the roaring Atlanteans and lurching Scanias, maybe because they had Voith gearboxes and Gardner engines. The Cummins engined Northumbria coach-seated batch were a totally different beast.
I used to work at a low cost depot years ago, I'd always dig one of these out for service, excellent buses!
Ex Northern General/Go North East with a Cummins L10 and 4 speed Voith and are excellent for cruising. I know the area well where they was driving around.
Me too. Windy fields 😉
I travelled on B736 GCN along with other buses in the Johnson's/Redfern fleet. This was a VR running day organised by someone from the IOW. They are not a Nottingham local company but are based in Mansfield, Notts.
If Im correct, Northern General's B-GCN batch were the first Olympians to feature Cummins L10 engines.
All of those and the C-LJR variety
thats Cummins L10 w/ Voith, rare combination in UK
I’m from Northern Ireland my husband owns Allen’s tours he usually owned a few ex Lothian leyland Olympians my favourite to drive was A159 FPG sadly they had to get sold on then my second favourite A145 DPE had went to a graveyard sadly after it’s new company sent it off for scrap really miss them still can see them
I did some casual driving for an operator in rushden Northamptonshire called diamond coaches. They had olympians mainly volvos of ex stagecoach origins however they did get one leyland olympian I forget where she was from she was a sort of red / maroon colour with if memory serves white striping. We used her on a contract taking students from bedford University to a night club and back the University shuttle was definitely an eye-opener for myself and the olympian. Wonder if she's still around.
those were the buses not those modern where everything is computerized
Love the deep bass whirry roar of a LT10
These never had a turbo, naturally aspirated, but if they did have a turbo, my word🚎💨
@@hillbilly5483 the Cummins L10 engine is turbocharged, the Gardner isn’t.
L10 is a lovely whirry smooth sounding engine.
This L10 is hooked up to a Voith which has its own whirring sounds in addition to the L10
The olympian, last of the proper double deckers, like the Nationals for single deck. The olympians used round us were Gardner + semi-auto, our National 2s having TL11 +semi. Changing gears also became a dying art after these. Easier in traffic nowadays for the driver but much less fun, although I'm not sure I would like to go all the way back to crash boxes. Give me syncromesh or semi auto every time.
Blue one was new to northern general transport in April 1985, i dare say on the expresslink service to Newcastle, ive probably been on that back in the day. Looks in good order
That's 3736 ran out of Winlaton depot, travelled on it most of my teenage years, always loved the toasty warmth of the back bench and the sound of that L10, not forgetting the slight diff whine at very high speeds, oops I mean at the speed limit haha
I think the Express links were registered C-LJR higher in the 36-- fleet numbers this was older by a year but higher fleet numbers 3736
Engine sounds totally different from what i remember
Company I used to work for had an Olympian it was an E reg E153OMD to be precise but it had a 180 Gardner engine in her instead of a Cummings
Northumbria had those with a Cummins L10 and ZF gearbox, they could easily top 70 mph, unfortunately to be used on private hire they had to be fitted with a speed limiter or seat belts, not required on stage carriage work, we went the speed limiter option, as seat belts were a pain and constantly vandalised.
There's a lot on their fleet that were local to me new in East Kent.. I'm tempted to apply for job with them to get to drive some of the old motors (I have Cat D and CPC)
Hurry up because they haven't got many Leyland Olympians left now as they're being replaced by second hand Scania Omnidekka's
Would there be any way you could get a test drive of the new Oxford tube panoramas?
Is it me or older buses better than modern ones
I never did understand why the staircase was around the other way to most buses, it always seemed counter intuitive.
Bus looks in fabulous condition. Just the right amount of rattles😂
Are these 10,000cc or 9600cc?
10,000cc
1 to 12a of the west notts college buses withdrawn 30 june 2023
Local Nottingham company
Its got a different engine.
It's got the Cummins L10 240bhp that it's always had, I will never forget that sound, I grew up around those engines, my favourite of that era
Hi there my real Name is Mr Cannadine T. Boxill-Harris I was wondering, why couldn't you and your teammates can still do those Rebuilding and Repainting each of those nice fresh shiny Volvo D10A, Gardner 6LXB, Volvo TD102KF, Gardner LG1200, and Cummins M11, Loud 4 Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Transmission Alexander RV’s Modernisation the inside of Most of the Alexander RV Buses so that the Alexander Bus Builders will be have the interesting Opportunities in Rebuilding most of the Alexander RV’s into a insidable modernisation of the Low Floor Alexander RV Buses Pretty Please, Repaint most of them to a Grey Green Pattern Colours just like the original Scania Grey Green's which were in the North London and East London bus routes such as 141, 179, 210, 275, 125, 168, 173, 24, 167, 313 and also the bus route 103, if you guys would like to Rebuild about 228 each of The Gardner 6LXB, Volvo TD102KF, Cummins M11, Volvo D10A and Gardner LG1200, Loud 4 Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Transmission Alexander RV Buses can you and your teammates put most of those Cummins M11 and those Gardner LG1200 Loud 4 Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Transmission Alexander RV Buses to those East London and North London and that especially is including the London Bus such as those London Bus Routes such as for example the 296, 179, 341, 41, N29 and that also willing to be including each of the North London Bus Route Number 221 for all of us Grey Green bus lovers in North London and including East London For all of us passengers out there Please? could you please Repaint most likely be able to Repaint most of them into the Exact grey-green bus Colour and put each of the North London and another each of the East London Bus Routes which are each of the 341, 179, N41, 34, N29, 149, 221, N73, 86, 30, 296, 147, 41, 262, 396, 56 and N26 for all of us Grey Green Bus lovers out there because we are Really Really desperately need Are those types of the pattern colour buses to be brought back again in London Please? Do it for all of us customers and passengers in North London and living in those areas such as East London, pretty please. It will be Very Very Very Very Very Very Interesting Buses to see them being Repainted into the exact Grey Green Pattern Colours I am a Big Fan of those Gardner 6LXC, Gardner 6LXB, Volvo TD102KF, Gardner LG1200 and Cummins M11 Loud 4 Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Transmission Alexander RV Buses Please? Thank You Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very much for your help, time and support.
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