MCW Orion Lightweight bus body - sales brochure issued by Metropolitan-Cammell-Weymann, 1956
Ah! The Orion! Those of us of a certain age, and who grew up with Edinburgh's municipal bus services would well recall this style of MCW bus bodywork as Edinburgh bought many hundreds of these on Leyland chassis to replace the city's tram system in the mid-1950s. Lightweight they were - famously described as "monstrous masses of shivering tin" - and especially when viewed against the solidity of the steel and timber built tramcars they replaced. However they served the city well into the 1970s and many other operators bought these buses.
MCW Orion Lightweight bus body - sales brochure issued by Metropolitan-Cammell-Weymann, 1956
Ah! The Orion! Those of us of a certain age, and who grew up with Edinburgh's municipal bus services would well recall this style of MCW bus bodywork as Edinburgh bought many hundreds of these on Leyland chassis to replace the city's tram system in the mid-1950s. Lightweight they were - famously described as "monstrous masses of shivering tin" - and especially when viewed against the solidity of the steel and timber built tramcars they replaced. However they served the city well into the 1970s and many other operators bought these buses.