A capital's Olympian assets

摘要

Edinburgh was a Leyland city. Between them, Edinburgh Corporation, Lothian Region and Lothian Buses bought over 1,600 new Leylands between the start of services in 1914 and the end of Leyland production in 1 993. The last Leyland Olympians came out of normal everyday local bus service in 2009 although one is retained as a heritage vehicle. All this and much more is told succinctly in this latest of the Leyland Society's fleet profiles, which often also double as potted histories of the operators themselves. The authors play to their individual strengths, Gavin Booth providing great depth of knowledge of his home city while Mike Sutcliffe offers a deep understanding of many things Leyland, especially from the earliest years.