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THE BODY WORKS OF THE CHASSIS MAKERS.
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The Ability to Produce Vehicles with a High Standard of Excellence in Design and Workmanship.
PRODUCING THE POPULAR LEYLAND LION AND LIONESS.
LEILAND MOTORS, LTD., Leyland, Lancs.,Thasjiaid a good deal of attention to the types of passenger-carrying and goods-carrying bodies which it considers suitable for its chassis, and it will be remembered that in our issue for March 22nd we dealt at length with a new all-metal beds, which it has prepared for the purpose of demonstrating to coachbuilders and its own agents the possibilities of the Lioness chassis.
This particular body, which is built almost throughout of aluminium, is specially devised for long-distance travelling. The interior is spacious, the seating is comfortable, silence is aimed at at every point, and ample accommodation is afforded on the roof at the rear for luggage.
The facilities at the Leyland works for bodybuilding are substantial and practically any requirements of a customer can be fulfilled. Special ideas have been developed in bus bodies to suit local requirements and the ideas of bus operators. The result is that there is a wide range of useful designs from which a municipal body obtaining new powers to operate buses can make a ready choice, because the range is sufficient to meet any practical requirements. The Lion and Lioness chassis have been specially built for passenger work, the Lioness accommodating a 26-seater single-deck bus body, and the Lion a 31-seater body. The Lion has its driver placed beside the engine under a cab, thus providing a larger passenger area behind the dashboard, whilst the Lioness has its driver positioned to the rear of the dash.
In the case of the Lioness the wheelbase is 17 ft., with a 6-ft. 8-in, overhang, giving a total overall length of 25 ft. 10 ins. With the entrance in front beside the driver this makes a useful one-man bus, and there is a small social compartment which will accommodate 10 people at the rear, an emergency door being introduced at the extreme rear of the vehicle.
In the case of the Lion the entrance, in one model, is behind the rear axle and
closed by double doors. Five persons sit with their backs to the driver's cab and face down the length of the vehicle, two passengers are accommodated over the wheel arch on the off side and one on a wide seat over the rear arch on the near side. In a second type of single-deck bus suitable for the Lion chassis the entrance is at the front with an emergency door at the extreme rear, and only three passengers sit with their backs to the driver and face down the length of the vehicle, the rest of the seating being entirely symmetric and giving room for 28 people.