York Road Woodpecker Pub

[stutterdog]

BLAKEY wrote: stutterdog wrote: This looks like a yorkshire Rider bus! Indeed it is - its one of the MCW Metrobuses in the 75**/76** series. They had some very unfair criticism because of the jerky automatic gearchanges. This was entirely the fault of the operator for buying buses with three speed very wide ratio gearboxes to run on busy services in a very hilly area. An option of a four speed box could be specified and would have removed any cause for complaint. Thanks for that Blakey! Did the majority of these vehicles run out of Seacroft? I seem to remember driving one or two of these and found they pulled very well. While I'm on the subject, what number was the bus that could have it's roof removed and ran on the Discovery bus service on a Saturday through the Summer. I think this would be in the late 80's?At a guess it was 447 out of Bramley