Posted by Michael Grimes
on May 24, 2009, 6:58 am, in reply to "Re: Leopard 1891 : Bus or Towcar or Baby Leopard?"
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Actually no I was not taking the mickey!
The point is that all this sub fleet have had their rear ends more or less removed and the backside put in again so they are in effect a very much shortened Leopard.
As to what to call them choose your own name. My suggestion was "Baby Leopard" as they are certainly not full size Leopards and are smaller - I think - than any other breed of Leopard hence the reason we call them "Baby Leopards" to distinguish them from their grown up stable mates. Right now they all have only six to ten seats and if this does not make then babies I do not know what would. We can hardly call them mini-Leopards as minibus is applied to a particular type of bus which these most definitely are not.
So maybe we should have a competition to pick a name for them but for the moment as far as we are concerned they are baby Leopards. Perhaps for political correctness we should call them horizontally challenged Leopards!
Michael Grimes
P.S. It never ceases to amaze me what causes the most discussion on this board!
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