WMT/TWM Leyland Lynx

[winston]

Now that's how I remember them on the 19S along Quinton Expressway, happy days  ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PjjPufgF0I&list=FLsDyLkOVF6YXuzp6fFYafNw&feature=mh_lolz

[Liverpool Street]

Oh that sound!! Bringing back some very fond memories I can tell you!

Great vid, and may I just say, that's how Lynx's wanted to be driven  ;)

[Kevin]

Any of the preserved? I remember a few years ago there was one at Wythall doing trips

[Gareth]

1290 is preserved in TWM red, white and blue livery. 1266 is preserved in as new grey and blue livery.

1064 was also saved and there were videos on YouTube showing very early restoration work, but I have no idea on its current status.

[winston]

1290 is preserved in TWM red, white and blue livery. 1266 is preserved in as new grey and blue livery.

1064 was also saved and there were videos on YouTube showing very early restoration work, but I have no idea on its current status.

Gareth,

I think it's actually 1292
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jongraham890/6992927975/

[Gareth]

Yes it is! Oops!

[lynx1103]

1061-1066 new to Cleveland Road (Wolverhampton)
1067-1068 new to Yardley Wood
1069-1078 new to Dudley
1079-1093 new to Yardley Wood
1094-1102 new to Walsall
1103-1106 new to West Bromwich
1107-1108 new to Walsall
1109-1125 new to Lea Hall
1126-1140 new to Dudley
1141-1142 new to Lea Hall
1143-1162 new to Walsall
1163-1173 new to West Bromwich
1174-1178 new to Walsall
1179-1199 new to Yardley Wood
1200-1210 new to Wheatley Street (Coventry)
1211-1230 new to Quinton
1231-1234 new to Yardley Wood
1235-1240 new to Wheatley Street (Coventry)
1241-1257 new to Lea Hall
1258-1260 new to Yardley Wood
1261-1265 new to West Bromwich
1266 new to Walsall
1267-1273 new to Wheatley Street (Coventry)
1274-1279 new to Dudley
1280-1288 new to West Bromwich
1289-1294 new to Dudley
1295-1297 new to Hockley
1298-1305 new to Lea Hall
1306-1309 new to Yardley Wood
1310-1313 new to Hockley
1314-1316 new to Walsall

[The Real 4778]

Interesting that several garages missed out, including Perry Barr and Liverpool Street at first glance.  I'm sure there were fewer single decker routes back in the Eighties, but were there still plenty of Nationals knocking around, I guess there must've been.  Did PB and LS have allocations of Nationals, or no single decker diagrams?  And at the likes of Walsall and West Brom, what was the Lynx effect?  i.e what did they displace, if anything?

[Gareth]

The introduction of the Lynxes was the start of the single decker invasion that would be resumed in 1995 with many taking over from double deckers. At the time they were ordered in 1988 the plan was for the still large fleet of Fleetlines to be withdrawn by 1991. Of course by 1991, WMT was a privately owned company who had quite a sizeale number of the fleet away on loan or in reserve and new deliveries pretty much dried up.

Birmingham Central was 100% Metrobus since 1986 and would remain so until the Scanias arrived. And I think at that time Perry Barr only had Metrobuses and Fleetlines.

[lynx1103]

Interesting that several garages missed out, including Perry Barr and Liverpool Street at first glance.  I'm sure there were fewer single decker routes back in the Eighties, but were there still plenty of Nationals knocking around, I guess there must've been.  Did PB and LS have allocations of Nationals, or no single decker diagrams?  And at the likes of Walsall and West Brom, what was the Lynx effect?  i.e what did they displace, if anything?

Perry Barr by 1990 became all double deck until around 1995/
When EX-Metrowest nationals came in for service 52 until 1996.
1648 1659 1731 1745

And in October 1995 for a month Lynxs
1165 1166 1167 1169 1170 1171 1172 1173
Drifted in for a trial on 46/91.
Did not work all returned back to Hockley in a month.

March 1998-April 1999 saw

1103 1104 1105 1106 1158 1159 1163 1164 1165 1166 1310 1311
Brought in for service 68