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Rapido 941008 Leyland National BCD807L Southdown Green

Product Code: 941008

Manufacturer Number: 941008
Category: Models, Buses
Brand: Rapido
Range: Rapido 2022
Era: 1970's
Livery: Southdown
Construction: Diecast Model
Scale: 1:76
Gauge: OO
Model of Bus: Leyland National

Release Date: TBC

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BCD807L, Southdown NBC green with white stripe. This will be a 1151/1R (long, single door), Phase 1 version.

The National was born when the newly formed British Leyland Motors Holdings joined forces with the equally new National Bus Company to build a standard single decker that was suitable for all areas of the country. Hence its name.

The new bus was unveiled at the 1970 Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court and visitors took in its modular construction, Michelotti styling and distinctive roof-mounted ventilation pod. In a bid to level up the country#s economy, it was to be built at a brand new factory in Workington, which was suffering with the decline in the Cumberland steel industry.

ERM35K was the first National to be handed over to an operator on March 13th 1972. Symbolically, it was Cumberland. Production got into full swing but reaction was mixed. For some operators and passengers alike, the new buses were a revelation; others were less enamoured.

Orders (including export orders) were steady but the Workington factory#s National production line never ran at full capacity. Other avenues were explored, from 1978#s low-cost Series B version, which lacked the roof pod, to using body parts on new railcars.

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