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iree double-deckers placed in service iton-under-Lyne Passenger Transport ek have been designed specifically for In operation, using fare boxes. The —Northern Counties-bodied Leytlanteans—are the first of five built to 3rate the ideas of Mr. Peter Bland, I manager and engineer of the uning, which he described in an exclutick in CM March 14, entrance has been positioned as far d as possible, and is a two-step enwith the lower step 16in, from the 1 (unladen) and a second riser of 8+in. the entrance the floor is level to the ten rises slightly towards the rear of loon. The exit door has been placed iately behind the front axle and the se faces the exit, rising forwards over e.
the front, nearside, is a bench seat cing this a luggage space beneath the The entrance doors have been deso that only the forward leaves of the nife doors can be opened when the being operated on o-m-o duties. For rperation both front and rear leaves of trance can be opened. The buses are odds and seat 71 passengers.