Blinking in the sunlight today ...
... Is this long stored ex Maidstone & District Leyland Leopard Duple Commander IV. RKM 616G has been incarcerated for a couple of years in a barn on the Shropshire / Staffordshire border, stored pending authority to restore it from it's present owner. One of today's 'tasks' was to awaken it and move it outside in order that the owner of the premises could move some of his stored car collection around. With the assistance of some new batteries and the tiniest whiff of Easystart the coach burst into life. Other than for the traditional long stored Leopard fault of a broken exhaust flex, it sounded as fit as a fiddle. The old girl is seen here in the farm yard ticking over like a fifty guinea watch.
Does anybody out there know of any other surviving Commander IVs?
Blinking in the sunlight today ...
... Is this long stored ex Maidstone & District Leyland Leopard Duple Commander IV. RKM 616G has been incarcerated for a couple of years in a barn on the Shropshire / Staffordshire border, stored pending authority to restore it from it's present owner. One of today's 'tasks' was to awaken it and move it outside in order that the owner of the premises could move some of his stored car collection around. With the assistance of some new batteries and the tiniest whiff of Easystart the coach burst into life. Other than for the traditional long stored Leopard fault of a broken exhaust flex, it sounded as fit as a fiddle. The old girl is seen here in the farm yard ticking over like a fifty guinea watch.
Does anybody out there know of any other surviving Commander IVs?