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Jacky Bar-Lev writes:
My name is Jacky and I work for Egged in Israel, A company that had more then 2000 Leyland Buses and coaches from the 40's to the late 70's.
The company also has a Bus and Coach museum which holds a fine collection of restored buses including many Leylands, most of them are in running condition or close to it.
I attach pictures of a Royal Tiger Worldmaster, which was built in 11.73. My father got it brand new. It was last registered in 8.91, by that time it was used as mobile storage by the museum's manager. A few weeks ago it was towed to the museum where I discovered it.
Other volunteers and me connected batteries and few seconds later the engine started! Few more minutes, air pressure was built, a chair was fitted and the bus ran!!!!
There was a lot of excitement on that day!
I hope you'll like the pictures, taken by Mr. Andy Radulescu and Mr. Dror Regev
Latest in: (17th December 2005) Jacky has emailed to say that there are three film clips available to download, showing the above in action.
For those without broadband connection: beware, two of the film clips are quite large. Anyway, they can be found here:
http://846.zita.co.il/741_1.avi (9,254,000 bytes)
http://846.zita.co.il/741_2.avi (2,161,022 bytes) - which I think is the best of the three.
http://846.zita.co.il/741_3.avi (18,172,286 bytes!)
Anyway, it shows that it is not just a static display!
This set of images © Leyland Society, 2005