Talk:Leyland Atlantean

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I would challenge the opening premise of the Leyland Atlantean article that "In the years immediately following the Second World War bus operators in the UK faced a downturn in the numbers of passengers carried". UK statistics would demonstrate that such a downturn began eight years later, in 1953.

Perhaps, then, a main driver for the development of the Atlantean wasn't a response to falling passenger numbers so much as gaining operational efficiency by using as much internal space as possible, there being a relaxation in 1966 of the permissible overall double deck vehicle length to 30 ft.