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1974 Leyland Atlantean AN68/1R VanHool McArdle

1974 Leyland Atlantean AN68/1R in Educating Rita, Movie, 1983

Class: Bus, Double-deck — Model origin:

1974 Leyland Atlantean AN68/1R VanHool McArdle

Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

Comments about this vehicle

Author	Message
ahight 2007-08-02 21:10
Gag Halfrunt 2007-08-02 21:23	From the IMDB's trivia page: Quote At the train station, there is an unusual black rectangle above the word "Platform" on the platform sign hanging from the ceiling. Its purpose is to cover up the Irish (Gaelic) word "Árdán", which would have been out of place in an English railway station. A slightly different tactic was employed in another scene showing a double-decker bus. Its destination is listed as Beaumont, a real suburb of Dublin. It was most likely chosen partly as a could-be-anywhere sort of name, but mostly because practically every other destination on a Dublin bus is listed bilingually. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0085478/trivia
Gag Halfrunt 2007-08-02 21:38	This is a bus belonging to CIE, the former Irish state-owned railway and bus operator. (Note the blank white circles pasted over the CIE emblem.) Apparently it's a Leyland (Atlantean?) AN68 with Irish-built Van Hool McArdle bodywork. http://www.freewebs.com/eirebus2006/ddfvanhool.htm -- Last edit: 2007-08-03 00:34:15
Gag Halfrunt 2007-08-03 00:30	Why 1976? If I've identified it correctly, this model was introduced in 1974.
Weasel1984 2007-08-03 21:48	I also think Atlantean http://www.preservedirishtransport.com/van_hool_AN68_gallery.htm -- Last edit: 2007-08-03 21:49:32
SteveA 2007-08-03 22:41	It's a Leyland Atlantean AN68/1R with Van Hool-McArdle body as stated - the registration plate is a fake to cover the fact that it's shot in Ireland. Either two vehicles were used or the same one twice with different registrations!
Gag Halfrunt 2007-08-03 23:06	The bus in the night-time scene appears to have the same advertisement on the side, so they're probably the same bus with different number plates.

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