Casaro bodied Leyland Royal Tiger Worldmaster 1956

The 1956 Earls Court Motor Show featured a Leyland Royal Tiger Worldmaster with bodywork built by Autocostruzioni Casaro of Turin, Italy styled by Ghia, the renowned Italian automobile design house also based in Turin.

The ‘Commercial Motor’ magazine, in an edition published in the run up to the exhibition, reported that the coach was 36ft 4ins long and 8ft 2½ins wide – it was to be about 5 or 6 years later before these sort of dimensions were legalised in Britain. That report included ‘Wide-angle vision for passengers is given by the almost unbroken sweep of four large side windows, the driver having an exceptionally wide angle of unbroken vision through a divided wrap-round windscreen. There are 40 inclined seats’.

This little montage shows the real thing being reversed into the exhibition hall (published in ‘Bus and Coach’ magazine October 1956) and another from ‘Commercial Motor’ magazine around the same time showing it in position. There is also a sketch of the coach taken from a magazine advertisement.