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centre entrance. Single deckers by that time could legally be worked driver-only, which by halving staff costs saved some rural routes from abandonment. Harper Brothers of Heath Hayes mentioned above fitted very utilitarian fronts to some Burlingham Seagull bodied Royal Tigers for the purpose whilst Walter Alexander & Sons converted some of its Royal Tiger coach fleet in-house (those with Alexander bodies) and had two of its Leyland-bodied examples refitted with the contemporary (late 1950s) Walter Alexander Coachbuilders front end assemblies which produced incongruous-looking but doubtless useful service coaches.
645:'s government transport undertaking, after evaluating the coach demonstrator, took 8 ft 0 in (2,438 mm) wide PSU1 Royal Tigers with their own bodies, bus and coach, these forming the 200-strong U-class. The Irish Army also bought a single example, to transport regimental bands, this was also Saunders-Roe bodied it has a centre entrance is 7 ft 6 in (2,286 mm) wide, registered ZU5000 and delivered in 1953; it has recently been found by preservationists and is now stored awaiting restoration. The Lough Swilly operation still had their first Royal Tiger in revenue-earning service in 1979 681:. In the UK, conversely, the Royal Tiger had an unladen weight often exceeding eight tons, more than that of double-deckers with up to twenty more seats, and as the gross vehicle weight was twelve tons in 1950, a full complement of luggage and passengers would take the coaches in particular close to the legal laden limit. Thus in 1952 Leyland launched a bus to the concept of the Royal Tiger but with a lighter-weight frame and units standardised with the Comet 90 medium-weight lorry. This was the 668:-denominated record for a UK vehicle builder of £4 million, by 1953 Brazilian operators had over 460 Royal Tigers in operation. Other early territories to take large numbers of overseas Royal Tigers were Australia, Egypt, Finland, India, Iran, Israel, Kenya, New Zealand, Nigeria, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, The Netherlands, and Uruguay. Denmark, Greece, Jamaica, Nigeria, Norway, Venezuela and Yugoslavia among others were later added to the list of territories taking the OPSU. 38: 613: 768:
heavy and gear-lever throws were rather long, un-assisted steering was hard to move at low road-speeds, interviews with drivers of the Royal Tiger show they regarded the type as hard work to drive, but rewarding. Some operators swore by the Royal Tiger, but others swore at it. Barton Transport who had solely taken Leyland for all its full size bus and coach needs since the end of
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in-house coachbuilders were locked-out at the conclusion of an unofficial industrial dispute in 1954 bringing Leyland bus and coach bodies to an end. Although the 8 ft width was the majority choice most operators chose the vacuum-servo braking system, which was at its limits coping with a fully laden vehicle with an eight-ton unladen weight.
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but with a substantial steel ladder-frame chassis generally straight in elevation but with an up-sweep over the rear axle, to which operators could fit a coach-built body of their choice with the passenger floor about 3 ft (914 mm) above the road surface. The flexibly-mounted Leyland 0.600H
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was originally planned over eight variants PSU1/1 to PSU1/8 with a wheelbase of 15 ft 7 in (4.75 m) to suit the then UK maximum length of 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m), 8 ft (2,438 mm) width was allowed from 1948 but only on officially-approved routes until 1950. Unlike
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fluid coupling and air-actuated preselector gearbox combination as on the rival AEC Regal IV. Air brakes were generally offered, vacuum brakes and narrow track were rare options and an air-servo to the Leyland clutch and synchromesh gearbox was offered as standard on all air-braked layshaft-gearbox
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A large number of coachbuilders produced bodies for the Royal Tiger, most of them were standard buses or coaches, at the time underfloor engined single-deck buses with up to 45 seats generally had a single front entrance opposite the driver on the front overhang, often secured with a power-operated
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did the same with their first batch of touring coaches, subsequently standardising on air brakes for all new buses and coaches regardless of builder. The home market Royal Tiger also lacked the air-servo assistance to the clutch or gearchange that the OPSU had and as a result clutch pressures were
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based dealer Les Gleave Ltd. Between 1961 and 1964 they converted at least 20 Royal Tiger chassis to the full-length allowed by a recent change in the law, for a cost of £200 for the conversion work; these all received new registrations and a stretch in the wheelbase to 18 ft 6in, Gleave then
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Roadmaster body for their contemporary version, a style that was considerably rarer in full size than were 1:76 scale die cast metal models of it on railway layouts and in toy cupboards. Leyland’s own 44-seat bus and 41-seat coach bodies were built on a large number of Royal Tigers until Leyland's
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As well as total rebodying, some operators in the late 1950s and early 1960s took mid-life central-entrance Royal Tiger coaches and modified them to dual-purpose (i.e. buses adapted for longer-distance service routes which could also serve as private hire coaches) by converting them to front from
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O stood for overseas and left-hand drive variants had an L prefix to the type code, Hence for example LOPSU2. Customers for the Royal Tiger were found on every populated continent, sales were however particularly high in Europe, the Middle East, South America and Australasia. All overseas markets
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The Leyland Royal Tiger was an underfloor-engined heavyweight single deck bus or coach chassis, and sold well in the United Kingdom and overseas from launch. "Overseas" versions differed greatly from home market models. Upon launch in 1950 this was the fourth new marque of post-war Leyland single
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Most notably the Royal Tiger was also the first post-war Leyland bus to feature a pictorial badge: a die cast bright metal item with a plated finish featuring a central shield carrying a coloured image of a charging open-mouthed Tiger on a black ground, this surmounted by ‘LEYLAND’ in inset red
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folding door; industry-standard coaches a central entrance in mid-wheelbase, generally with a manual sliding door, 41 seats was the general coach maximum, that said, there was a much greater variety of body styles and builders than today. Buses were built on Royal Tiger PSU1 by Brush,
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horizontal engine was mounted in the middle of the chassis frame, driving back through a unit mounted single-plate clutch and four-speed gearbox with synchromesh on second, third, and top, or later only on third and top, to a spiral-bevel rear axle. Steering was unassisted
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in Auckland, New Zealand has 1953 Leyland Royal Tiger PSU No.464 fitted with a Saunders Roe kitset body, one of 150 to be operated by the Auckland Transport Board, then Auckland Regional Authority until 1983. Presented in the ATB lettuce green and transport cream livery.
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which carries a Mann Egerton body to Crellin-Duplex patent ‘Half-deck’ pattern; this carries 50 coach seats in facing pairs interlaced above and below a central gangway, it has recently been restored for its private owner by the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum. The
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A number of Royal Tigers are preserved, both bus and coach, in the southern hemisphere as well as the UK, at least one Les Gleave ‘stretched’ example among them, but the oddest preserved Royal Tiger might be JVB908, new to Homeland Tours of
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The only contemporary model was the Dinky Toys Duple Roadmaster. Rob's Classic Models produced Australian Government versions of the Leyland Royal Tiger Worldmaster in 1/76 scale in 2017, along with models of AEC Regal IV equivalents.
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lengthened their own HMR444 and also extended the original Plaxton body by nearly 3 ft. later Munden of Bristol re-bodied the extended chassis and re-registered it EHY111K This bus is still extant with third registration PJY2
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The Royal Tiger on the home market was among the most powerful and quiet Public Service Vehicles yet encountered and very smooth-riding but vacuum brakes were not as efficient or as responsive as drivers desired from the outset:
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also featured this style of badge, some Leyland goods models also used the shield badge, including models with the LAD and early Ergomatic cabs and notably the sole Leyland/Thompson Brothers' Dromedary rear-engined fuel tanker.
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Candidate chassis were initially only the air-braked PSU1/16 variant but some PSU1/15 were also lengthened and at the same time converted to air brakes, all the converted vehicles were coded PSU1/16/LG. Blue Bird coaches of
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In most of the rest of the world Leyland customers liked the Royal Tiger, but some found it insufficiently strong and some regarded it as underpowered. As a result, Leyland produced its most successful bus model, the
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have since produced the Burlingham Seagull to 1/50 and 1/76 scales. Oxford Diecast now also offer a 1/76 scale model of the all-Leyland Royal Tiger coach and have recently announced a 1/76 Duple Roadmaster.
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were getting their first orders from Barton since one Regal coach in the mid-1930s. However (see rebodies above) some operators found the near indestructible build of the Royal Tiger an asset and
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which was in series production by 1953 and rapidly overtook the Royal Tiger in popularity with British operators. Whilst export markets demanded even more ruggedness and power, so from 1954 the
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bought five Leyland Royal Tigers with Burlingham bodies for its ‘Coach Cruise’ fleet in 1951 but the poor fuel consumption saw them sold three years later by which time Leyland's major rival
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The durability of the heavy PSU chassis was often well in excess of the bodies it carried, several operators had their Royal Tigers fitted with new bodies, Harper Brothers of
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cam and double roller, all component assemblies (save for some special export orders) were built by Leyland and were proven, having been previously used in the
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lettering, with ‘ROYAL’ and ‘TIGER’ on the left and right wings coming from the shield. Later bus models including the Tiger Cub, Worldmaster, Atlantean,
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The last Royal Tigers were completed in 1956, by which time 6,500 had been built. In the home market it had been supplanted by the lighter
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Export Royal Tigers were different. Suffix numbers varied more than home market versions as an option for overseas variants was an
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Single plate clutch Leyland synchromesh 4 speeds, air-assistance to gearshift standard on OPSU,
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took the OPSU series save Ireland. In the UK-administered six counties of Northern Ireland the
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The most notable example though was the commercial lengthening and rebodying operation ran by
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fluid coupling and 4-speed air-servo preselector gear change optional on OPSU in some markets
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constructed its own bus and coach bodies on 176 examples whilst cross-border operators
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bodied PSU1 Royal Tigers, all to the rarer 7 ft 6 in (2,286 mm) width:
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for one converted its vacuum braked Royal Tigers after a season or less in service,
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Coach Rally with the apt dealer re-registration 2048LG)(Audlem was covered by the
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frames. The only other operator-bodied Royal Tiger was McLennan of Spittalfield,
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It needs some restoration work but the Saunders Roe body is mostly complete.
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had a Plaxton rebodied Royal Tiger on regular service well into the 1980s.
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For the rear-engined coach underframe built between 1982 and 1988, see
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variants. Omitting suffixes the OPSU series can be tabulated thus:
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county vehicle licensing office whose index marks included LG).
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was an underfloor-engined bus and coach chassis manufactured by
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Unlike the home market Olympic, launch orders were impressive,
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deck bus chassis since 1945. It used the same units as the
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and others, whilst coaches were built by (among others)
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Motor Vehicle Registration Marks of the British Isles
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GVU Leyland-Verheul Royal Tiger 27 in the Netherlands
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MHC Baker (1979). Parke (ed.). "An Irish Survivor".
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Townsin (1963). Smith (ed.). "Leylands Since 1945".
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Index

Leyland Royal Tiger

Leyland
Engine
Leyland
rpm
Transmission
AEC
Leyland Royal Tiger Worldmaster
Leyland
Leyland-MCW Olympic
Marles
Tiger PS2
Tiger Cub
Worldmaster
Leopard
Lion (PSR1)
Panther
Panther Cub
AEC Regal IV
Ribble Motor Services
Ulster Transport Authority
Red & White Services
Wallace Arnold
Associated Motorways
Preston
Brush
Wigan
Northern Counties
Crossley

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