SCOTTISH VINTAGE BUS MUSEUM

SCOTTISH VINTAGE BUS MUSEUM - ESF 647 W (CH 9399)

The museum has taken delivery of a bus which, although built in the UK, is unique to these shores. It is a Leyland Victory with double-deck Alexander body, developed specifically for the Hong Kong market in the late 1970s. A large fleet of these was amassed by China Motor Bus and these are now being withdrawn since the operations were acquired by FirstGroup, and, largely as a result of the Scottish origins of its bodywork, a representative sample is being shipped back to be included in the museum's collection thanks to the kind initiative of Alexanders, FirstGroup and Volvo.

The bus has a Gardner 6LXB engine mounted alongside the driver and Voith automatic transmission, and is sure to be a crowd-puller - literally - it seats no less than 102!

Comment: The Victory chassis was actually developed by Guy but after Leyland took over everything was badged as Leyland even although the chassis of LV36 was built at the Guy Motors plant at Wolverhampton.

Below are sisters of our Hong Kong bus - LV83 (left), and LV3 in the new livery - both in Hong Kong in 1999. (Photos by Eric Mah from Hong kong, who visited the museum in 1999.)

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