LT LHs and Metros
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LONDON TRANSPORT has gun preparing for next monti service cuts, and has written prospective buyers offering sale a number of surplus buse!
All 155 IV1CW Metropolit double-deckers and 45 Bristol I single-deckers in the LT fleet a on offer.
The Metropolitans were bL in 1976 and are dual-doored seaters which are operated the Selkent district in South-EE London. The Scania-power buses were bought wh( Daimler Fleetline productic was transferred from Coven1 to Leyland, and delivery to was disrupted, and have settl down after initial troubles whi resulted in nine being scrappe,
The Bristol LH single-deckE were also delivered in 1976 al have a 7ft 6in wide ECW bo built to LT requirements. T Leyland-powered buses ha semi-automatic SCG epicyc gearboxes and power-assist steering.