Leyland Cheetah

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The Leyland Cheetah with the type designation LZ was a bus chassis made by the British commercial vehicle manufacturer Leyland Motors . The type was built from 1935 to 1940. Designed as a light vehicle, it suffered from a weak engine.

The Cheetah was built as a coach with up to 39 seats. The superstructures came from Alexander , Brush , Burlingham , Harrington , Wadham and Park Royal . The Harrington coaches had a distinctive rear fin that corresponded to the then understanding of an "aerodynamic" design that was becoming increasingly popular at the time. Many of the surviving buses were fitted with new bodies by Alexander , Burlingham and other coachbuilders in the late 1940s . Typical of British buses of the time was the one-sided driver's cab, which was pulled forward almost to the level of the radiator grille. On the one hand, it offered the driver a good all-round view and, on the other hand, easy access to the engine.

A six-cylinder gasoline engine with 4.7 l displacement was used as the engine. The chassis was designed to be particularly light, so the total mass was less than five tons.

One of the Cheetah's biggest customers was the Ribble bus company , which operated 309 copies.

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