Northern Counties Palatine

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The Northern Counties Palatine is a step-entrance double-decker bus body built by Northern Counties of Wigan, UK. It was built mainly on Leyland Olympian and Volvo Olympian chassis, although some were also built on DAF and Scania chassis. Two variants existed, the Palatine I which had a flatter windscreen, and the Palatine II which had a curved windscreen resembling that of the single-decker Northern Counties Paladin.

It was superseded by the Plaxton President body.

[edit] Variants

A Warrington Borough Transport bus with Northern Counties Palatine I bodywork.

A Volvo Olympian with Northern Counties Palatine II bodywork.

A DAF DB250 with Palatine II bodywork, new to Metrobus in 1995, converted to an open top bus for the Cambridge City Sightseeing Tour