Seddon Pennine 7

The Seddon Pennine 7 was a mid underfloor engined single deck bus and coach chassis built by Seddon Atkinson at Oldham between 1974 and 1982. It came about when Leyland planned to stop making the Leopard variant with the smaller engine and manual gearbox, and the Scottish Bus Group, the only buyer of that version, asked Seddon Atkinson in 1972 for an alternative with a Gardner horizontal engine. After one prototype the first production example was bodied and delivered in October 1973, and the run ended in 1982 after 527 chassis. The chassis used a Gardner 6HLXB diesel and ZF or Self-Changing Gears transmissions. No replacement followed, so the Pennine 7 ended Seddon involvement in bus manufacture, though it had risen to prominence in the British bus and coach market with the earlier Pennine 4 and Pennine RU.