Former PMT Leyland Lynx H861 GRE
Numerically the last of the eleven Lynxes purchased by PMT in 1990, this one spent all of its life locally at either Burslem or Crewe depots. Following displacement from service 20 by second-hand Scanias it was transferred to First South Yorkshire as a driver trainer, although the faded middle zero on its route number blinds hark back to its time at Crewe garage. It's seen in its driver training guise arriving at a POPS rally at the Wedgwood Visitor Centre. During its final days in passenger-carrying service with PMT it was a poor example of the Lynx, being very smokey and not particularly fast. What it was most renowned for amongst Burslem and Crewe drivers alike was its rattling cab windows, which for some reason could never be fixed. Rumour had it that during its early life Leyland engineers had stripped several panels from the side of the bus in order to try and track the problem down. Obviously they never managed to. POPS' late rally organiser Paul Pearson converses with the drive.
Former PMT Leyland Lynx H861 GRE
Numerically the last of the eleven Lynxes purchased by PMT in 1990, this one spent all of its life locally at either Burslem or Crewe depots. Following displacement from service 20 by second-hand Scanias it was transferred to First South Yorkshire as a driver trainer, although the faded middle zero on its route number blinds hark back to its time at Crewe garage. It's seen in its driver training guise arriving at a POPS rally at the Wedgwood Visitor Centre. During its final days in passenger-carrying service with PMT it was a poor example of the Lynx, being very smokey and not particularly fast. What it was most renowned for amongst Burslem and Crewe drivers alike was its rattling cab windows, which for some reason could never be fixed. Rumour had it that during its early life Leyland engineers had stripped several panels from the side of the bus in order to try and track the problem down. Obviously they never managed to. POPS' late rally organiser Paul Pearson converses with the drive.