Ride On Preserved Leyland Leopard TSJ 64S - Glasgow Oct 2017 

the leyland leapord was the backbone of scottish passenger transport for many years, and there were still many in service right up until the very late ninetes, either with first bus or private operators such as Hutchinsons or Whitelaws. I have fond memories of them, wether it was a fully manual Y body with no power steering and the driver wrestling us upto the Hamilton cross on the 62 , or roaring up the Motorway to Ayr on day excursions, or upto glasgow on the 64. I never liked the angular bodies or slightly dull sound of the tigers brought into replace them. I mind too network KCB brought a lot of them out of retirement in 1996 to serve alongside the volvo B10Ms. Came back from meeting my future wife on a semi automatic leapord with updated tail light clusters on the 201. Watching one the best preserved examples here, the transmission in that lovely machine almost sounds like an excited child running happily alongside the engine. No computers anywhere to be seen, the destination board is a vynil roll, the seats are about as comfy as sitting on bricks, the steering wheels were made for mister tickle, but I bet the drivers still adored them. Just push the pedal, aim the wheels and it go. :)

Thanks. I used these to travel to Bell College in Hamilton around 25 years ago. I remember the noise of the engine and the interior trim rattling too, and was fascinated by the stubby wee gear lever. They seemed to gradually be replaced by the Leyland National on that route, whose only feature I remember was the rear roof pod. Leyland Leopard buses and Class 303 (Blue Trains) - the noisy, characterful transport of my youth.

Oh bringing back the memories of these back in the 90s most uncomfortable seats ever but flying machine 😂

Lovely condition of the vehicle. I can remember riding on those type of buses years ago. The engine sounds as if it's been well looked after as well.

Nice to see a young driver who knows how to change Gears in a Leopard Properly most drivers nowadays just thrash through the gears like idiots.

Both riding on and driving, this brings back many memories!

ROI 141, New to Ulsterbus in 1979, was still going strong to the end in 2006

Ahh that squeal!!! God bless the old leopards!!! Absolute flying machines. It was a shame they had to go

I can remember as a 12 year old back in 1980 catching a Western SMT from Carlisle to Gretna, I think we went via Longtown , coming from the South west of England it was a new type of bus to travel on

I mind seeing the bus as my mum and i are spotted at 1.15 secs my mum recently passed on the 24th of July 22 away and i often took her to events and around the museum and often bored her to tears when spotting the buses out and about when there was open days and such events on in the city ...i think secretly she loved seeing the old buses too...i hope ,,,thanks for the vid

I remember the sound of Leyland Leopards and MK2 National's with the same engine. My local bus company Stagecoach East Midlands ran a few Leyland Leopard's well into the early 2000's. They just kept going and only got rid of them as newer buses at the time replaced them and they didn't last as long.

A brilliant video! I loved travelling on Leopards when I was young and loved driving them later on. They were reliable and very economical. TMS407X which still exists and BSJ931T were brilliant machines. I loved the bark of the exhaust and used to set off car alarms with BSJ! I cut my teeth on Leyland vehicles and passed my test on a Leyland PD3 decker too.

Leyland Leopards & Tigers & Bristol RE's were The Work of Horse of City Bus & Ulsterbus in Northern Ireland for Year's Also Ulsterbus Tours Used a Lot of Leyland Tiger Contour Coaches in 80's & 90's

Childhood memories of Midland Bluebird coach trips

Only bus tour I never done from open weekend but I remember those when I was a kid when used to run around Ayrshire along with AA & A1 buses

I can smell this video.

The leopards in Manchester were plaxton bodied, they could move. It was always a surprise to get on one. Much prefer these than the new

A real bus listen to the grunt from that beautiful Leyland 680 pity it's a semi automatic better with a crash box that sorted the men from the boys same as the Eaton twin splitter in the ERF anda lot of other trucks both excellent engineered boxes

When I was at secondary school, about 15 years ago, they gave us wan o these buses if we didnae behave. It was that noisy we couldnae hear oorself makin a racket. Ma grandpa used to drive them for a living in Ayr back in the 70s/80s.

NIce to hear the crackle from the exhaust, which in the latter days of Leopards in Glasgow in the 1990s was sometimes louder than engine and transmission combined. Transmission (or is it a belt?) on this is making a horrible stuttering squeal.

Every area depot should have one of these old buses. I hope that they can keep hold of it for as long as possible. But I do recognise that come the 2030s they will obviously have to be taken off the roads in accordance with the government plans to tackle Climate Change.

that transmission is too noisy.needs a strip down before failure happens,i remember new ones and they were not like this one

Terrible downchange. No rev in neutral. Gearbox won’t last long like that.

This must be the worst drive I’ve ever seen of a semi automatic gearbox