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A site for sore eyes at Sandown was this former Leyland National demonstrator on historic plate CH5525. It was eventually acquired by a Sydney fleet, seeing later service with Caboolture and Dalby in Queensland. Picture ref A1368 |
This view of the National shows how the rear end of a UK standard 10.3m model was married to the front end of the 11.3m to produce a street legal 10.9m version for the Australian market. This is evident in the smaller window bays of the rear portion of the bus. It is 40 years since the first National appeared in Australia, an 11.3m model that went on to join the Surfside Buslinese fleet. Picture ref A1367 |
This view of Martyrs 16 was taken from the top deck of Driver's Gray Line Motorcoach decker. Picture ref A1417 |
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