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These two were the only Leyland Lynx 2s in the fleet. Never a common type, with only around 140 being supplied to the home market, they were two of four of the type new to Whitelaw, Stonehouse, these two being new in August 1991. The Lynx was an integral vehicle although the Lynx II could be supplied as an underframe to be bodied by another coachbuilder. This didn't happen in this case and they were built completely at the Leyland National factory in Workington with chassis type Leyland Lynx 2 LX2R11C15Z4S and a B51F body.

These buses had a somewhat peripatetic nature and moved rather a lot. They moved after about two years to D & J (Dearsley) Travel, who used them on a shuttle service from Liverpool Street station to London City Airport. They moved again to Redby Travel of Sunderland by 1994 and it was from there that they came to Rhondda Buses.

Arriving at the end of 1996 they were numbered 41 and 42. A year later, following the purchase of Rhondda Buses by Stagecoach, they received new numbers 681/682 in that fleet. They were sold later to Stagecoach Ribble and operated from Burnley depot. When Stagecoach sold the operations to Blazefield Holdings on 15-Apr-2001 they were also transferred to the new Burnley and Pendle fleet, still with the original Stagecoach fleet numbers. 41 went on to join Hedingham & District Omnibuses as their L327.