Lei4 coachin ventur
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A NEW VENTURE for Lei ter City Transport has the purchase of this Duple coach, the undertaki first coach and also the manual psv to be bought nine years.
Leicester intend to use coach 'to upmarket its p and ride services and also provide private-hire workii If the coach is a success will probably be followed another two similar vehic for the complete conversion weekday park and ride, Leic ter's only service to receiv, subsidy.
At present Leicester has self-imposed 50-mile limit private hire bookings as it c, siders service buses do I have a high enough stand of passenger comfort to farther afield.
The coach was delivered oi three months after the date the original order by Yeates Loughborough. As Leicester tend to replace the coach I fore it becomes due for C examination it chose a ligi weight chassis, and decided Ford as it already carried large stock of Ford spares its municipal vehicles.
The R1114 chassis is fitt with the Ford six-litre turh charged engine, six-speed gez box and power steering. T. Duple coach body is fitted wi 49 luxury coach seats al power doors to bus grant sta dards.
Leicester deliberately slight] modified its usual coloi scheme for the new coac which is finished in maroon ar white instead of maroon ar cream Leicester livery.