The Leyland Atlantean

Leyland Atlantean: A Half-Century of Service

By the end of the 1960s, economics dictated that the traditional front-engined double-decker had had its day. In the Atlantean and its competitors, the British bus and coach industry had vehicles capable of taking on and meeting the challenges, both at home and abroad, that the contemporary world presented.

The Atlantean was probably the last British-designed and -built bus to achieve massive sales worldwide, with the list of oper…