First Leeds
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First Leeds is a bus operator based in and around Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. A branch of First Group it is the dominant public transport company in the city.
It has an extremely large fleet which encludes a number of Wright Eclipse Gemini, Solar and articulated buses, which are Volvo B10LA's, as well as Dennis Darts with a mixture of Alexander Dash (new in 1995) and Plaxton Pointer (1996).
Other buses in the fleet include a large batch of Volvo B7TL's with Alexander ALX400 new between 2000-2 and a sizable batch of Volvo Olympians with Alexander Royale bodywork new in 1997/8, older double deckers include some Leyland Olympians with Roe and Optare bodywork (Optares being new in 1985-7, built to a Roe design) bought new between 1982-7 (of which a lot were withdrawn in 2006), they also have a big batch of Scania N113's, some new mainly with Alexander bodywork plus one with Northern Counties Palatine in 1990/1, some Alexanders from Black prince (new in 1989-91) and some long-wheelbase East Lancs E-type bodied examples new to Hull in 1989.
They also have a lot of Alexander Strider bodied Scania N113's new in 1993/4 at a time when single deckers were bough in large numbers, they also have 5 1994 L113's with the same bodywork which came from York when a year old. Low floor single deckers are mainly Wright bodied Scanias bough in 1998-9, early ones are L113 and later ones are the L94UB, the newest single deckers are a small batch of Wrightbus Eclipse Volvo B7RLE's bought in 2003-4. They operate with a livery with white, purple and pink.
