page_title: Scania Metropolitan
section_title: Customers
hierarchical_section_title: Scania Metropolitan / Customers
caption_attribution_description: English: West Yorkshire PTE bus, a Scania Metropolitan double-decker with Metro Cammell bodywork, pictured in south Bradford, West Yorkshire.
context_page_description: The Scania Metropolitan was the first double decker bus model built jointly by MCW and Scania. It was built between 1973 and 1978.
  It was also the second bus model jointly built by these two companies. The first model was the Metro-Scania single decker based on the BR110/CR110 chassis, which was first built for the UK market in 1969 and sold in small numbers.
context_section_description: London Transport
  London Transport was once the largest operator of Metropolitans, with 164 being delivered between 1975 and 1977, but all of them were withdrawn by 1983. Some continued in service with other operators for several years. These included Charles Cook of Biggleswade who ran them between 1983 and 1993, Whippet of Fenstanton who even operated an open top example originating from Hull City Transport, Black Prince, Alec Head of Lutton and Camms of Nottingham. MD1 (KJD 201P) appeared in The Human League's music video Life On Your Own in 1984 and is now preserved in a Scania museum in Sweden while MD9 exists on a farm in Potton, Bedfordshire for non-PSV use, it was sold to the owner by Charles Cook. MD60 is currently preserved in the later London Transport livery, having only recently completed restoration.
  Tyne and Wear Transport (TWPTE)
  Tyne and Wear PTE were the second-largest operator of Metropolitans, building up 140 of them between 1975 and 1977. By the mid-1980s most of the Tyne & Wear Metropolitan's were withdrawn although a handful did pass to the new arms-length private company Busways Travel Services brought about by de-regulation of the British bus industry in 1986. 499 (RCU 499S) was the last to be withdrawn in 1989, and the only vehicle to be repainted in the Busways livery. A significant proportion of them were acquired by various operators throughout the UK and some of the Tyne & Wear Metropolitans have also survived into preservation.
  West Yorkshire MetroBus (WYPTE)
  West Yorkshire PTE, more commonly known as MetroBus, purchased 95 Metropolitans between 1975 and 1977. They were all withdrawn by 1985. One example entered preservation, but was eventually scrapped in the early 1990s.
  Leicester City Transport
  Leicester City Transport bought 35 single-deck Metro-Scanias and following their success bought 68 double-deck Metropolitans in several batches between 1974 and 1977 (and a handful of second hand ones for further service and spare parts), both in dual door configuration, and a final batch of 5 with single door in 1977. One dual door 1975 example 301 (GJF 301N) survives in preservation, restored to original LCT cream/maroon livery, and attends regular rallies along with the last surviving Metro-Scania single decker 225 (ARY 225K).
  Merseyside Transport (MPTE)
  Merseyside Transport was another major customer for the Metropolitan, eventually purchasing 60 in the mid-1970s following on from 20 single-deck-based BR110 Metro-Scanias in 1972/73. Allocated to the Green Lane and Prince Alfred Road depot's in Liverpool they were all withdrawn by the summer of 1986 perhaps hastened by deregulation and the formation of arms-length private company Merseybus which standardised its double deck requirement on the Leyland Atlantean - that Merseyside Transport bought in large quantities. Some of the Merseyside Metropolitans were sold for further service with other operators with Kingston Upon Hull City Transport (KHCT) being a notable example. However the vast majority were scrapped and by the 1990s all of the Merseyside examples were believed to have been scrapped.
  Greater Glasgow PTE
  Greater Glasgow PTE purchased 40 Metropolitans in 1975.  All were withdrawn in 1981-82.
  Reading Transport
  Reading Transport took 33 Metropolitans from 1975 to 1978, and added to these with a number from the London Transport and Tyne & Wear Transport fleets.  The last one was withdrawn in 1992.
  Hull Corporation/City Transport
  Hull bought 30 Metropolitans between 1975 and 1978. They survived into deregulation and the formation of Kingston Upon Hull City Transport (KHCT) and were augmented second-hand examples from Merseyside Transport (see above). They were withdrawn by the end of the 1980s and pretty much all have been scrapped, however one notable former Hull example - 436 WKH426S, was retained as an open-topper by Cambridgeshire operator Whippet Coaches/Go Whippet. It has since passed to EnsignBus as a source of spare parts.
  Greater Manchester Transport (GMPTE)
  Greater Manchester Transport purchased 10 Metropolitans in 1974 for use on 
caption: West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive MCW bodied Scania Metropolitan in Bradford in July 1975
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