Daimler Fleetline, North Western No 174. 

I used to travel on this bus as a child with my mother. It was on the 222 route from Partington to Manchester Piccadilly. Nice to see it's still around and cared for.

Drove many of these in my 35 driving career 😊

Fantastic example. My regular schoolbus was a Fleetline (Willowbrook body) with a reconditioned 6LXB powering it, and not surprisingly it sounded identical. Same clean exhaust too. It belonged to Roger Hill's fleet of buses and coaches of Congleton.

A Gardner of any number of cylinders from 1 thru 8 is just a wonderful wonderful piece of engineering.

How I would love to drive that.

I wish to correct your information about the Gardner Engine. The engine in the Daimler is a LX and not a LXB. You can tell an LX by the bottle-type expansions on top of the Injector Pump. It only produced 150 HP at 1750 RPM, whereas the LXB produced 180 @ 1850 RPM. Gardner is the Rolls Royce of Diesels, loved every minute of my 2-week course at the Eccles Factory in Spring 1984. 😁

Does that have the Fenner tyre between the engine and gearbox?