Leyland Panther

The Leyland Panther was a rear-engined single-decker bus chassis manufactured by Leyland between the years 1964 and 1972. A smaller engine version is sold as Leyland Panther Cub between 1964 and 1968. Its biggest market was: Australia.

In fictional transport
Verlinburg Bus Service bought 36 Panthers and 26 were bodied by Verlinbus Makers and 10 by Melvin City Bus Bodyworks.

Cubby's Buses of Peasant City bought 41 Panthers, and had the fleet code 7618. They are numbered from 7618 001 to 7618 042. In mid-1970s, when check digits were introduced, the check digit is included after it's fleet number, calculated with Verhoeff algorithm until 1989, and Luhn algorithm since 1989. For example, 7618 001 became 7618 0019 in 1976, and then 7618 0017 in 1989.

Modernham Bus Service (now Isabel Castillo Flores & Co.) of Modernham, Rheintall bought 19 Panthers, in 1968. They are numbered from 212 004 to 212 023. It included a trailing 7th digit: 212 0046, 212 0053, 212 0061, 212 0079, etc. to 212 0236.

Isabel Castillo Flores & Co. of Melvin City placed 108 between 1966 and 1967, making it the largst quantity of Panthers purchased in Asia. (The Isabel C. Flores & Co. of Melvin City was a large Leyland National operator.)

In the UK
Sunderland Corporation placed 30 in 1965 and delivered in 1966. Other operators included Southport Corporation (22) and Liverpool City Transport (110).

Outside the UK (not in fictional countries)
Storstockholms Lokaltrafik in Sweden had 200 left-hand drive Panthers bodied by Park Royal Vehicles.

The largest quantity of Panthers in the world was purchased by Australia's Brisbane City Council, who purchased 341 between 1966 and 1970. The Metropolitan Transport Trust, Perth purchased 127 between 1968 and 1974. A few operators including Forest Coach Lines, Grenda's Bus Service, Melbourne-Brighton Bus Lines and Rover Coachesalso purchased Panthers.

Some second-hand Panthers were imported into Australia from Sweden and the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and operated by Fearne's Coaches, Forest Coach Lines, Grenda's Bus Service, Invicta Bus Services and Keiraville Bus Service.

Ten Panthers were sold to Dunedin City Transport in New Zealand, while another ten went to Egged in Israel and were locally bodied by Ha'argaz.