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History

• 1955 Bristol chassis production and Bristol bus operating activites seperated.
• 1962 Rear Engined RE introduced
• 1965 Leyland Motors buys a 25% holding of Bristol and ECW from the Transport Holding Company allowing sales to non THC fleets.
• 1967 LH introduced
• 1968 VRT introduced
• 1969 All English and Welsh THC (and BET) bus interests pass to newly formed National Bus Company. Leyland acquires an extra 25% holding of Bristol and ECW through a share swap scheme, 50% of Park Royal (and it's subsidiary Roe) and The Leyland National Company pass to the NBC in exchange. All of the above are formed into Bus Manufacturers (Holdings)Ltd.
• 1981 Leyland Olympian introduced and VRT production discontinued
• 1981 LH discontinued
• 1982 Leyland Bus buys the National Bus Company's 50% stake of BM(H)
• 1982 RE discontinued
• 1983 Closed - All production moved to Leyland plant in Workington

Leyland Motors is a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries and buses. ... The Transport Holding Company (THC) was created by the Transport Act 1962 to administer a range of state-owned transport, travel and engineering companies previously managed by the British Transport Commission (BTC). ...

Products

Single deck

• L type
• SC - Small Capacity
• SU - Small Underfloor engined
• LS - Light Saloon
• MW - Medium Weight
• LH - Light Horizontal engined
• RE - Rear Engined
• B21 - also known as Leyland Lion
• B52 - sold as a Leyland

Double deck

• K type
• LD Lodekka
• F series Lodekka
• VRL
• VRT
• Leyland Olympian

The Bristol VR was Bristols version of a rear-engined bus chassis, designed as a competitor to the Leyland Atlantean and Daimler Fleetline. ... The Bristol VR was Bristols version of a rear-engined bus chassis, designed as a competitor to the Leyland Atlantean and Daimler Fleetline. ... The Leyland Olympian was a double-deck bus built by British Leyland in United Kingdom from 1980 to 1993. ...

Trucks

• HG - Heavy Goods
• HA
• ST - Semi-Trailer

Note: A small number of Bristol LH and LHL bus chassis where bodied as pantechnicons for Silver Cross prams

Referances

• Curtis, Martin (1984). Bristol Buses in Camera, Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-1361-6
• Curtis, Martin (1994). Bristol VR, Ian Allen. ISBN 0-7110-2238-0
• Roberts, Duncan (2002). Bristol RE, NBC Books.
• Townsin, Alan (2000). The Bristol Story Part Two, Venture Publications. ISBN 1-898432-78-3