Leyland Olympian

Ribble became closely involved in the development of Leyland's Atlantean, Fleetline and VRT replacement - the Olympian. Initially developed under the designation of B45, the prototype was delivered to Ribble in July 1980 and entered service from Blackpool Talbot Road (AC) in August 1980.

Production models began to arrive in the spring of 1981 and Ribble were honoured with the first production example - now coded ON. Deliveries continued until 1986 and were all ECW bodied lowheight examples.

Deliveries did not resume again until Ribble had passed to Stagecoach and are thus outside the scope of this website.

2100 DBV 100W B45 ECW H45/31F (Olympian prototype)
2101 GFR 101W ONLXB/1R ECW H45/32F (First Olympian chassis no. ON1)
2102-2113 JFR 2-13W ONLXB/1R ECW H45/32F 2114-2123 OFV 14-23X ONLXB/1R ECW H45/32F 2124 SCK 224X ONLXCT/1R ECW H45/32F 2125-2126 SCK 225-226X ONLXB/1R ECW H45/32F 2127-2130 VRN 827-830Y ONLXB/1R ECW H45/32F 2131-2137 DBV 131-137Y ONLXB/1R ECW H45/32F 2138-2143 A138-143 MRN ONLXB/1R ECW H45/32F 2144-2147 A144-147 OFR ONLXB/1R ECW H45/32F 2148-2155 B148-155 TRN ONLXB/1R ECW H45/32F 2156-2159 A156-159OFR ONLXB/1R ECW DPH42/30F 2160-2169 B960-969 WRN ONLXB/1R ECW H45/32F
2170-2179 C170-179 ECK ONLXB/1R ECW DPH42/30F
Images courtesy of and copyright (c) Keith Till; Jim Gorman