Leyland leads NV market
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• Leyland is claiming UK market leadership in the singledeck bus market following its latest order for 10 Leyland Lynx single-deck city buses.
The order, from Wakefieldbased West Riding Automobile, brings the number of Lynx bus sales to 100.
West Riding's managing director Ken Hodgson says; "We were all well pleased with the performance of the demonstrator Lynx we operated, and this certainly influenced our decision to buy Lynx. Our engineer's coupled to the favourable reactions of passengers and drivers alike, also helped us reach the decision."
The first of the ten Lynx's will be delivered at the end of this year. All will be fitted with 11.18m 49-seat single-door bodies, stepped floors and turbocharged Gardner 6HLXCT engines.
Five of the buses are rated at 153Kw with four-speed ZF 4HP500 automatic gearboxes; remainder, with 180Kw engines and five-speed ZF 5HP500 gearboxes, will be available for private hire work.