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This yellow sunset was taken in Clearwater FL and captures the famous Pirate’s Ransom from Captain Memo’s Pirate Cruise. The Pirate’s Ransom was custom designed and built to U.S. Coast Guard requirements for the owners in 1993. It offers lost of pirate’s antics during the two hour odyssey including a treasure hunt, face painting, water gun games, stories, and dancing for all ages. In addition it combs the horizon in search of dolphins.
Photographer Laura Storck with her submissions Philadelphia Sketch Club.-35mm Nikon FM2,Kodak Ektar 100
London Transport was not an early convert to Leylands revolutionary new National single deck. It had just made an enormous commitment to single-decker operation in the shape of hundreds of Merlins and Swifts. These were not proving trouble-free! It was having problems too with its new fleet of Daimler Fleetlines, so it was not going to plump heavily for another untried type.
However, LT did authorise a trial, using six dual-door short Nationals and six dual-door MS-class Metro-Scanias. The Nationals joined the Metro-Scanias at Dalston garage in November 1973 for the S2 (more famous as the 178, last haunt of the red RLH).
They were in a deep red livery, with white roofs and grey pods.
London Transport must have been impressed by their trial buses, but made haste slowly. It was 1976 before they had an opportunity to buy more Nationals, when an export order for 51 buses for Venezuela was cancelled. LT bought all of them, in a bid to keep its single-deck fleet running. They were allocated to Hounslow (AV) in August 1976, where they were joined by LS1-6. They took over a broad spread of single-decker routes from SMS class Swifts, which were then redistributed round the fleet.
Back to the trial batch, and the second of the type, LS2, is seen from the rear aspect inside Dalston garage in November 1973. I'm presuming the additional grilles on the lower rear panels were a London modification as I have yet to see this on any provincial Nationals. Can anyone shed any light?
Bus Éireann (Ballina) Leyland Lynx LS 2 (89-D-52160) in Ballina Depot, Mayo 14th April 2006.
Ex Nottingham City Transport 745 (G745 PNN).
Speculation by Peter Dean (comments). Maida Vale area.
LS 2 / YH 1166. This bus had a windscreen and inside staircase.
New 7/27 for LGOC : Out of service London Transport 9/37.
ADC double-decker H72R : enclosed stairs: AEC A121 7.6 litre petrol engine. Ref: Ian’s Bus Stop Leyland LS LONDON 6 buses.
Photographer unknown.