The Albion Viking VK was a bus chassis manufactured by
Albion between 1963 and 1980.
History
The Albion Viking VK41 was launched in 1963 as a front engined replacement for the Albion Victor VT. In 1965, the rear engined Viking VK43 was introduced. Later the VK49, VK55 and VK57 versions were released.
Following the closure of Albion's
Scotstoun plant in October 1980, production was transferred to
Leyland with the chassis relaunched as the
Leyland Super Viking
The Leyland Super Viking was a bus chassis manufactured by Leyland between 1980 and 1984.
History
Following the closure of Albion's Scotstoun plant in October 1980, production of the Albion Viking VK was transferred to Leyland with the chass ...
. Production ceased in 1984.
Operators
Although some were sold in the United Kingdom, notably to the
Scottish Bus Group
The Scottish Bus Group (SBG) was a state-owned group of bus operators covering the whole of mainland Scotland.
The origin of the grouping was the operators owned by and including the Scottish Motor Traction company, which were transferred to S ...
, the majority were sold overseas including to
Barbados
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and
Kowloon Motor Bus
The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited (KMB) is a bus company operating franchised services in Hong Kong. It is the largest bus company in Hong Kong by fleet size and number of bus routes. It is a subsidiary of Transport International.
...
in Hong Kong, Fok Lei (now Transmac) in Macau, and
SBS in Singapore. The Albion Viking was bought in numbers in Australia.
Albion
Road Transport Hall In the 1960s, it was popular with operators of Safari Tours.
References
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External links
Bus Australia gallery
Viking VK
Vehicles introduced in 1963