1960 Leyland Tiger Cub

This was one of the entrants in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1993.

It's a 1960 Leyland Tiger Cub with a Willowbrook DP43F body and was originally owned and operated by the North Western Road Car Company Limited as number 796. In 1972 it passed to the North Western (SELNEC Division) Road Car Company Limited which later became the SELNEC Cheshire Bus Company Limited, later being merged into the SELNEC Passenger Transport Executive. Withdrawn from service in 1973 it was sold into preservation and was exported to the Netherlands in the 1990s, being re-registered BE-21-96, then was purchased by Rexquote later in the decade for heritage bus services, being re-registered as LDB 796. The heritage bus services were later transferred to Quantock Motor Services Limited, a company formed by Rexquote who ran LDB 796 till 2007 when it was purchased by John Edwards.

A note in the programme of this Heaton Park Rally reads as follows:

Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/1, Willowbrook DP43F, 1960                                    LDB796

North Western 796

Entered by D J Jamieson, Heaton Mersey

This vehicle has recently undergone a partial repaint at the Museum of Transport.