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Wigan Corporation Bus
Wigan Corporation Bus
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 17878
A single deck, Leyland Panther? bus. Number 84. HJP 954H. On the bus/car park which was on the site of the old Central Railway Station, Station Rd.

Comment by: Dennis Miller on 8th June 2011 at 06:29

I remember those when they were in service, you got on at the front, and got off through the middle doors. I can't really remember if it made things any easier.

Comment by: Colin Harlow on 8th June 2011 at 07:55

Some early Atlanteans double deckers had the same idea Dennis, they were meant to save time.

Comment by: coccium on 8th June 2011 at 22:48

I cant help but notice all the buses shown in these photographs are so clean and tidy not like the junk thats passes for public transport of today.

Comment by: Bill Eatock on 13th June 2011 at 17:40

It's odd, but I've never taken to liking single-decker buses. Unless they're double-deckers; they don't interest me in the same way.
I'd miss a bus before I'd get on a single-decker!
Must be because of all the snogging I used to do on the top deck!

Comment by: Mike Williams on 15th May 2014 at 10:55

It is a Leyland Panther cub, some of these went to Malta and one came back DJP 468E

Comment by: NORMAN GERRARD on 23rd September 2014 at 23:24

IT IS A 36FT LONG LEYLAND PANTHER BODIED BY NORTHERN COUNTIES SEATS 46 AND 21 STANDING IT HAD A LEYLAND 680 ENGINE WHEIGED 7 T 15 CWT NO POWER STEERING AND WAS SEMI AUTO THE GEAR SHIFT WAS TO THE RIGHT OF THE DRIVER GOOD BUSES TO DRIVE THEY CAME IN 1970

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