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Looks like a Bristol VR.
 
Cool idea as a school library. Would have made me more keen to read!

That quest is one of only two registered in the uk. One was a tipper and the other carried a box body on a longer chassis. They were quite unconventional with all of the dials and switches in the cab mounted above the windscreen and the chassis was fitted with air suspension, the rear using a rather over engineered A frame akin to the leyland national.
Quest sort of accidentally got into vehicle production, being set up initially as a consulting/product design business. One of their first jobs was to design a new trolleybus for the sigma corporation of South Africa. Once designed, Sigma requested a working prototype and so a factory unit was secured in Telford to build it. This trolleybus used a MCW Metrobus under frame, modified to be electrically powered at Telford then shipped to South Africa to be bodied by BUSAF in Johannesburg.
Alongside the trolleybus, a request was forthcoming for the design of an advanced lorry chassis to be shipped to SA CKD and assembled there. About 600 kits were shipped and I think the two over here were of the same type.
Quest 80 then turned its attention to the uk bus industry and designed a suite of buses and coaches that utilised Ford truck components but in a more passenger friendly rear engined layout. To achieve a compact driveline, the engine and gearbox were mounted side by side and connected by a Morse chain drive - sometimes this was advertised as the "U" drive for fairly obvious reasons.. None were particularly successful and only sold in small numbers, mainly to independant operators wanting a more modern lightweight coach.
Then came the VM. This was a collaboration with Exelsior Coaches of Bournemouth and utilised a marine version of the ford six cylinder diesel (as used on the then general manager of Exelsiors boat) mounted in line at the rear with a six speed ford gearbox thus eliminating the chain drive. A cable operated gear linkage allowed the lever to be mounted to the right of the driver, just under the cab window. All were bodied with a special low driving position version of Plaxtons paramount 3200 body. All was not well however a one after the other, the new VM caught fire and was burnt out, at least one never made the delivery from Scarborough to Bournemouth without catching fire. Added to terrible build quality and poor reliability the frequent combustability meant the vehicles were extremely short lived with the operator that helped design them. A number were sold to ther operators around the country and at least one survives in preservation.
Quest 80 never recovered from this debacle and the company was sold, moving headquarters from Telford to Zimbabwe where it still exists.

London Transport always were a law unto themselves on so many things. I always wondered that too. They weren't even proper number plates, just white transfers on a flat bit of aluminium. And then on Metrobuses they put them behind a bit of glass making them unreadable.
 
Pressed aluminium plates on Routemasters. That really annoys me.

Yes indeed it was. I have known him for many years Via the CCC. It was offered to me at a very fair price, and most importantly it's a solid rot free car.
 

Yes indeed it was. I have known him for many years Via the CCC. It was offered to me at a very fair price, and most importantly it's a solid rot free car.
 

I was hoping for a thread about an Uber driver using a Montego Countryman or something.
 

Actually, do Uber have any rules about what you can use? 

This just sounds lovely.
 

This just sounds lovely.
 

This just sounds lovely.
 

This just sounds lovely.
 

This just sounds lovely.
 

Found this quite interesting. The idea has still not caught on. Only difference is that lithium ion is now the power source of choice.
 

Found this quite interesting. The idea has still not caught on. Only difference is that lithium ion is now the power source of choice.
 

Found this quite interesting. The idea has still not caught on. Only difference is that lithium ion is now the power source of choice.
 

This appeared in my Facebook feed today. Thought it worth a share...
 
Courtesy of 'Centro Storico Fiat'...
 
Captioned - 1975. Fiat 300PC.
 

 

5cyl Alfa Diesels are not like any other! I have driven many oil burners in my day and I can say that the 2.4 5cyl is just superb. Petrol like performance is a reality! Plus fir bonus points the 5cyl burble is fantastic at full chat. Does not sound like an oil burner at all. However, at idle...........

5cyl Alfa Diesels are not like any other! I have driven many oil burners in my day and I can say that the 2.4 5cyl is just superb. Petrol like performance is a reality! Plus fir bonus points the 5cyl burble is fantastic at full chat. Does not sound like an oil burner at all. However, at idle...........

Borrox.   I've been running a 156 2.4 JTD for 7 years as a daily now and it goes and handles like a scalded cat on Reeboks
What are you comparing it with?

Saw this little beauty in Hastings last week.
 

Fire officer in my work is ex fire service (station officer) he reckons they can be dangerous as they can give people a false sense of security and higher expectations of what they are capable of then use them to tackle a fire that is way beyond the extinguishers scope.

I've been a full time fireman for the last 9 years so I've got a fair bit of experience to call on. My advice would be that unless you know the capabilities of the extinguisher then do not attempt to use it. It is far safer to exit the area on fire and call 999 than to tackle something you are unprepared or unequipped for. If you require to use an extinguisher to exit a building that you otherwise can't get out of then that is a different scenario where you obviously should use it.
 
Take into account with a car fire under the bonnet that you will probably need to open the bonnet to apply the contents of the extinguisher and in doing so allow oxygen to potentially develop the fire rapidly.
 
I'm not advising against the use of an extinguisher by inexperienced persons to make the fire brigade look better as suggested in a previous post. I'm doing it because I know the risks involved in controlling and extinguishing fires.

Fire officer in my work is ex fire service (station officer) he reckons they can be dangerous as they can give people a false sense of security and higher expectations of what they are capable of then use them to tackle a fire that is way beyond the extinguishers scope.

Winter tyres go on both axles, no matter the drivetrain.

Neither. We get about four days of snow per year in England. Pull a sickie* and save the money winter tyres would have cost you.
 
 
* or, for the scrupulously honest, take leave.