Leyland National
Leyland National
Despite Ribble's long association with the National and its involvement with the development of the model, Ribble was quite low down on the list for the receipt of the first Nationals not actually receiving any until September 1972.
However, after that Nationals arrived in considerable quantity and the first "oddball" National was amongst the early deliveries. In addition to the well known protoypes, Ribble had numerous anonymous oddballs which were used in comparative trials with differing types of automatic gearbox as part of the work to develop Leyland's G2 automatic transmission.
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First Series National |
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| 371-420 PTF 717-766L 1151/2R/0401 B48D 421-460 NTC 601-640M 1151/1R B49F |
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Phase II National |
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| 687-715 SCK 687-715P 11351/1R B49F 716-760 UHG 716-760R 11351A/1R B49F 761-765 ACW 761-765R 11351A/1R B49F 766-798 CBV 766-798S 11351A/1R B49F |
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B Series National |
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| 802-812 TRN 802-812V 10351B/1R B44F |
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National 2 |
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| 813-822 YRN 813-822V NL106L11/1R B44F 823-827 BCW 823-827V NL106L11/1R B44F 828-845 DBV 828-845W NL106L11/1R B44F 846-853 JCK 846-853W NL106AL11/1R B44F 854-877 LFR 854-877X NL106AL11/1R B44F 878-887 RHG 878-887X NL116AL11/1R B49F 888-893 ARN 888-893Y NL116HLXB/1R B49F 894 ARN 894Y NL116HLXCT/1R B49F 895-898 ARN 895-898Y NL116HLXB/1R B49F |
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Protoype Nationals |
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| 461 OTF 354M 1051/1R B41F 461 GCW 461S 10351B/1R B44F 686 WFR 392V 10351B/1R B44F 755 UHG755R 11368A/1R B variousF 799 GFR 799W NL116690/1R B49F 800 NCW 800T NL113690/1R B52F 461 (OTF 354M) converted to battery electric operation and later passed to Crosville 461 (GCW 461S) later renumbered to 801 755 (UHG 755R) converted to 11368A/1R as part of LN2 development programme |
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| Photos courtesy of and copyright (c) Andy Richards; Keith Till |
