Leyland National

The Leyland National is a British single-deck bus built by Leyland, introduced in 1972 as one of the first buses in Britain designed and built as a fully integral vehicle rather than a separate chassis fitted with a body from an outside coachbuilder. Manufactured at a dedicated purpose-built factory using standardized modular sections that could be combined in different lengths, it was intended to replace a wide range of older municipal and company bus designs with a single, more efficiently produced type, and it became a common sight in British towns and cities through the 1970s and 1980s. Though later criticized for a distinctive roof-mounted air intake pod and a rougher ride than some rivals, it was produced in large numbers and exported to several other countries before production ended in the mid-1980s.