In 1919, Edinburgh Corporation bought their first Leyland charabancs, for tour services. After the war many of these were converted for use as charabancs. The two charabancs arrived just in time to offer excursions for the 1919 season. On weekends, the trucks turned into cloth-top charabancs for trips to the seaside. In 1925, the North Beach Bus Company was started by Alf Lehman with crimson charabancs. Charabancs appeared several times in John Le Carre's "The Little Drummer Girl". Durham-Churchill of Grimesthorpe near Sheffield manufactured charabancs as 'Hallamshire Cars' from 1903 until 1917.