LENGTHY DISPUTE: WHICH IS BIGGEST?
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• Further to your photograph on Page 19 of CM 31 May-6 June showing one of the new Yorkshire Rider Scania N113 double-deckers with Alexander 80-seat bodywork, and your caption that these are the largest vehicles in the YR fleet.
I would dispute that these vehicles alone are the largest in the YR fleet, though they may have the highest passenger capacity — 80-seated plus 13 standees — of any in the fleet, having only one entrance.
Surely the largest vehicles in the YR fleet had the distinction of also being among the oldest, if not the very oldest vehicles. These were a batch of Leyland ANC8s with C H Roe dualentrance bodywork delivered
to Leeds City Transport in the early 1970s before the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and subsequently Yorkshire Rider were formed.
These Leyland ANC8s have seen three regimes: Leeds City Transport; West Yorkshire PTE trading as "Metro"; and Yorkshire Rider, Though many of these ANC8s may now have been withdrawn, some have certainly been relegated to driver training duties. I believe that there are still a few in active passenger service and very smart they still appear in YR
F R Parker, Calverley,
Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorks.