Leyland Panther
The Leyland Panther was a bus chassis of the British commercial vehicle manufacturer Leyland Motors. The model was built from 1964 to 1971.
The Leyland Panther had a arranged on the rear engine. Until the 1980s it was common chassis and bodies for buses were manufactured by different manufacturers. The chassis manufactured by Leyland were therefore completed by body corporate. Some of the buses was setups of Leyland's subsidiary Charles H. Roe in Leeds, other major manufacturers of bodies were Alexander, Beadle, Burlingham, Crossley, East Lancs, Harrington, Marshall, Metro Cammell, Northern Counties, Nuttall, Park Royal, Plaxton, Seddon, Strachan and Willowbrook. Both coaches and city buses were built. Equipped were the buses with the six-cylinder diesel engine of Leyland O.600 9.8 liter displacement and 125 bhp and a manual, pneumatically assisted, manual, already known from the Leyland Leopard. The Panther was approximately 12 m long, in order to fully exploit the then in force in the UK restrictions on the dimensions of buses. The smaller and lighter version of the Panther got the name Leyland Panther Cub. The finished chassis were given in the first term the abbreviation PSUR.
How many of the first generation of buses with rear engine types earned the Panthers a reputation of unreliability. In total, more than 600 specimens of this type were built. Most of the vehicles were made to bus services in the UK, some copies were also exported. The largest foreign operator was Storstockholms local Trafik AB in Sweden, which decreased 150 karosserierte Park Royal buses. Some chassis were given a tour bus structure, in these, the frame of the chassis was higher. Most of them were constructions of Plaxton.
Werkspoor developed under the name Leyland Triumph Werkspoor a bus based on the Panther chassis. Mainly Rochester difference was the use of the stronger O.680 - motor, a Voith gearbox Diwabus and half integral frame construction. From the bus LWP City said some were built for urban traffic in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. The fabricated for GVBA (Amsterdam ) six buses took it the design of the DAF SB200 anticipated.
Was replaced by the Leyland Panther National.