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Hope the gear linkage is better than lhd models👍

Excellent on the gears. A treat to watch and listen to. So many drivers used to be too eager

Perfectly driven 👌🏻

Quality machine to drive

Nice gear changes

Early vw design from the smoke ......

Passenger Ash Tray In The Rear Drivers Seat Jeez Imagine Heading For Southwaite Services Starvin And Burstin For A lilian Gish And You Have Some Barsteward Trying To Extinguish A Embassy Regal In You Seat Back

Any One Still Know Neutral Pull The Selector Up Then Turn So You Can't Accidentally Knock It Into Gear

Find VGG 844W New To Gold Circle Coaches Of Airdrie

All Those Years Ago I Was The First Person In Scotland To Get Their P.S.V. Licence At 19Yrs Of Age Hay Nonny Nonny The Miles Done Since Then Now You Have Snowdrop Drivers Who's World Just Comes To An End When The Vehicle Has Stopped For No Reason

If You Were That Good At Double-De-Clutch You Should Be Able To Use It For Moving Off Then Change Without Using The Clutch Up And Down

Remember RCY 844M Unknown Fuel Choking Hitting The Cold Start Button On The Fuel Injection Pump To Keep It Going Turned Out To Be The Fuel Pipe From The Tank The Whole Lot Perished Fords Not Much I Have'nt Done On Them In My Day Still Better Than A YMT lol

Good Clip Been There In The Late 70' Early 80's DHH 44L Comes To Mind Every Moving Or Flexing Part Of That R Series Wore Out To Soft A Chassis

Quick Get It Back To The Yard Before The Head Gasket Goes LOL

No clutch??

Two stroke diesels , pure music 🎵

This is the only Leopard Video I've seen on UA-cam where it has a 2 speed axle. I would love to see a longer video of this coach. The normal five speed had a very long space between fourth and fifth, which often meant coaches would slow to 50-55mph before changing down with the engine at max revs. But top gear would take these well past 70 on the motorway, on my journeys back from London to B'ham in the 70s and early 80s I often saw the speedo indicating 80mph with the coach in the outside lane of the M1! I only went on a couple of Leopards with the 2 speed axle, and the half step between top and fourth made a huge difference in maintaining speed on hills. Anyway, if you get a chance to do another longer video of this coach with the gear change being shown I'd really enjoy it.

Much more power than the bedfords

Brings back memories.... including a school trip to Germany from North East on a 1972 leopard/panorama. Most memorable was seeing a one hitting 90mph for long stretches on the M1 (slight downhills) during the early hours in 1976 on an OK motor services one (Newcastle United supporters coach returning from London after league cup final with Man City... Newcastle lost! 😢)

Steptoe sure knows how to drive 😆👍😆

That fellas been about..

Wem, Shropshire, Brown's of Wem ?

Beautiful it needs to be saved. ❤

Double clutch very nice

Is this bus still in preservation?

Your Boloxing Around with That Gear Changing ,

Served My Apprenticeship on Them As a Mechanic, Fool Proof Machines ,

Caroline seagull over again wit out the splitter love it 😊

Love a r series

Can it reach 50mph?

Probably silly question but is that switch on the gear lever for a 2 speed axle or gearbox splitter ?

Driven properly too! What a beaut of a machine! 👌

A PSU3B/4RT Leopard with a splitter PneumoCyclic gearbox and wonderful sound effects.

Veri naise.

Great shifting there!! Lovely bus and sound. I've never come across one of those gear shifters to restore, just the basic 4 speed pneumatic here in Australia.

Awesome driving I fondly remember Barton’s buses having these as a kid used to get these with my dad to visit my gran

Been on that bus on internals at SVBM open weekend 2022. Boy it sure can take off

I used to drive for National Express back in the 80s in Liverpool we had lot's of our coaches like this, same gear box. I loved the sound of the mighty Leyland leopard, and Tiger

Why resting your foot on the clutch so much

Interesting :-). Very interesting indeed :-). Excellent footage :-).

This one reminds me the SKODA 706

Great to see double de clutching on change ups. 👍

Love that sound

Brilliant, could do with power steering ! Excellent gear changing, I've never seen a splitter used on a semi auto before. What order do you go through the gears?

That is how to drive a Leopard, with a splitter!

That is how to drive a Leopard, with a splitter!

Has this got a 2 speed axle? Is it 6 over 6?

You can tell the DAF 11.6 litre engine is very closely related to the Leyland 680.

I went on a Duple bodied Ford R1114 and wondered why the floor was completely flat then i remembered the wonderful sounding Ford Dover engine was on a slant

Andy give it a bit more fuel,open the smoke box up 😀👍