Additional information: The Farmer's Free Trolleybus was a very unusual operation. It ran to connect the Farmer's department store on Hobson Street to other parts of the city, the route involving quite a bit of climbing. They started with a motorbus but a trolleybus route was built and opened on 19th December 1938. It was the only trolleybus service in Auckland for over ten years. It was later operated by the Auckland Transport Board and the Auckland Regional Authority, with motorbuses replacing trolleybuses as the system was abandoned, until the store relocated in the 1990s.
The fleet comprised four of these Leylands which became 1-4 in the ATB fleet. The bodies were built at the ATB Royal Oak workshops due to a fire at the DSC & Cousins & Cousins Ltd factory which destroyed the factory and the original bodies before they were fitted. All passed into preservation on withdrawal in 1967.
