Merseybus MPTE 1003

The sights and sounds of traveling on a Leyland Atlantean. This is former Merseyside PTE/Merseybus 1003 A323GLV. Filmed on location on the Wirral on 5th August 2007

[@stevethomas363]

Best buses ever made better then the crap we have today

[@bluebus270]

Is there a reason the gear selector is on the right hand side?

[@Fcutdlady]

Did this come over to anof the Dublin port rallys

[@lee9655]

What an almighty roar in the engine between gear changes.... I used to love riding these buses when I was a kid going to arrowe park hospital.

[@pjtrain019]

Great clip! Takes me back to when I used to catch the 6c/40 from town up to Plessey's...

[@gcbus]

I too cannot stand Enviro 400's (Trident versions) or Tridents in general - they sound so agricultural.

[@video47]

@HFWallaseybus I would love a ride on this bus if it is attending any events, would be great! I have been on 1365 and that is a very nice example too!

[@video47]

Great Video! and so many views, I have not yet had a ride on this, but it looks a really nice bus :-)

[@hamsterbus]

The ZF Eclofe version of the enviro 400 is awful an monotonus along with the B9TL and is the 192 route the Manchester version shedloads of noisy voith gearboxes there. Got a very noisy one MX08UCJ but not on the 192 though.

[@glenrea]

Aaah. Have only been behind the wheel of a really old atlantean, and the gears were marked 1 thru 4 plus reverse on that one. Probably not the AN-type chassis like this one.

[@Sackbladder]

philc201987 - You're right about the seats - the vertical handrails were also black.

[@woffbus]

5 speed but you dont use 1st unless ur doin a huge hill start yeah mines on the left, but its eay to change, its only a few wires if that.

[@StevieO1974]

Not only do straight-through gearchanges ruin the gear bands, they also shorten the life of the gearbox considerably. I was told by someone who used to work at Lothian's Shrubhill Works that the semi-automatic transmissions on their PDR and early AN68 Atlanteans sometimes lasted as little as two weeks due to this. In most cases the gear bands would end up slipping and it was not uncommon for gearboxes to blow up due to the gear bands sticking.

[@video47]

Nice video

[@2obsessivecompulsive]

I remember travelling on this bus many times between St Helens and Liverpool on the 10/10a service as a kid.Noisy and uncomfortable buses the Atlanteans were.

[@StevieO1974]

Reminds me of the LRT Atlanteans - some of their SSG-R batch had VERY shiny seats by the time they came off service.

[@CheshireQueen1]

Teddy bear seats were Crosville weren't they? I remember all the C routes

[@greetpete]

An excellent driver, who handles the semi automatic gearbox beautifully!!! A wonderful post, many thyanks.

[@tylergriffiths6643]

1003 is good but 1032 is just a tad better sorry terry who is driving ??

[@glenrea]

gear lever makes a lovely "plonk" when engaging! Wish the national I sometimes drive at work did that!

[@glenrea]

Where these 4 or 5 speed 'boxes on atlanteans?

[@DVG452]

@WhiteStarLine401 ... No, not on this occassion

[@CheshireQueen1]

Remember the red and grey seats?

[@StevieO1974]

That was possibly a PDR, which used a CAV semi-auto gearchange. Some Atlanteans (late-model PDRs and early AN68s) had a pedestal-mounted gearchange control unit. Edinburgh Corporation specified this on Atlanteans delivered between 1969 and 1975. Their successors, LRT, switched to automatic gearboxes until the end of deliveries in 1981.

[@TESCOSGRESHAM]

362 is the best tfl bus route

[@Sackbladder]

Nice to see you still give a wave, Crow!

[@glenrea]

It's a Leyland "Plughole" badge!

[@glenrea]

All the atlanteans I've seen have had the gear selector to the driver's left - but they've all been London Country (NBC Colours/Park Royal bodies) and much older.

[@pauljones5876]

The later ones had gears on the right..