Flat-floor Atlanteans ?
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QPEA KING in the Coventry City Council debate on Atlanteans versus Flectlines (reported in The Commercial Motor last week), Cllr. A. W. Eagles said that in order to eliminate a step in the middle of the Atlantean, Leyland would have to modify the chassis as Coventry wanted a flat-floor bus. To achieve this, he said, a different type of axle must be fitted.
Meanwhile Sheffield Corporation has recently placed orders for 30 Fleetlines and 20 Atlanteans, the specification calling for a chassis capable of taking a double-deck body within 14 ft. overall height, which suggests that Leyland will have to adopt a lower rear axle line in this case also.
A bus chassis already made within the Leyland group, the Albion Lowlander, employs a dropped rear axle to facilitate the fitting of a sunken gangway in the lower saloon of a low-height doubledecker.