Bus Shite

[willswitchengage]

 

COMPETITION TIME!!

 

What's this? Is it REALLY a 12 litre twin turbo?

[Felly Magic]

Yup it's deffo a 12 litre, I bet it feckin flies, body built in Egypt

[Inspector Morose]

Chassis built in Brazil. could be a 12 litre or an 8 litre, depends on the emissions spec.

[Felly Magic]

DOOVLA says 11.6 and change

[Inspector Morose]

Sweet. Nice sounding engine, that. Sounds "purposeful". Willenhall Commercials in, erm, Willenhall has got a metric shitonne of those engines out of a load of 0405Ns they've taken from National Express WM,

[Felly Magic]

There's a rather nice Prisma currently visiting Harrogate Coach Travel atm, as the firm owner Craig 'Leyland' Temple posted on flikr earlier. He's a mad bastard is Craig, and a genuine top bloke, and has quite a few 'toys' in his collection, including the infamous Leeds Jumbo that was rescued from Halifax a fair whilr back

[Inspector Morose]

Thinking of purposeful sounding engines, this is back out and heading to Portsmouth:

 

 

 

Perkins V8 FTW!

[Felly Magic]

During the summer, I'm hoping to get my sorry arse back up to Yorkshire for a bit, and help my mate the Wookiee work on his collection of heaps, and rejoin Dudsbry Bus shed, and hopefully get behind the wheel of the bus I saved from an uncertain future, even though the puddingheads have painted it in 1950's livery. A Nat 2 does not look right like that

[quicksilver]

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COMPETITION TIME!!

 

What's this? Is it REALLY a 12 litre twin turbo?

Tis a Merc OC500 with an MCV Evolution body, new to Carousel Buses in High Wycombe. I know that cos I was the PSV Circle sub-editor who reported it new along with its sisters.

[Felly Magic]

Didn't Carousel have an Iveco/Renault Irisbus Agoraline at one point?

[quicksilver]

Didn't Carousel have an Iveco/Renault Irisbus Agoraline at one point?

Better than that, they had three of them. All sold very quickly after Go-Ahead took them over.

[DVee8]

This afternoon along the road from were i live

 

https://www.facebook.com/john.robson.5220/videos/10201779975218819/

[Felly Magic]

Kingsley's, I know that firm, a mate bought a Metrobus from them

[DVee8]

I drove along just as the heavy haulage was dragging the bus,away all the back end was burnt out. The police and the council work men were repairing the road.

As a side note one of the lads i work with is the step son of  Kingsley's,i'll ask him tonight.

[willswitchengage]

Don't make em like this anymore

 

[Felly Magic]

I used to drive those Striders in service, some were brilliant, and others were utterly gutless and had a nasty habit of liking the side of the road. That's Halton Moor just before Neville Hill, so the bus was either on a 91 or 88

[RichL]

Barton's old Bus Depot, Chilwell, Nottingham. Open day today.

 

 

[RichL]

Another

 

[Inspector Morose]

Dual sliding doors. Lovely.

[rml2345]

Very nice! Yeates bodied anything is pretty rare nowadays.

[83C]

Went to a bus rally yesterday at Weston-Super-Mare.

 

Getting ready to go:

 

 

 

Bristol RELH with ECW body.

 

 

Sonsie Quine, a 1920 Clayton & Shuttleworth road locomotive.

 

 

Bristol L5G tower wagon.

 

 

Bristol L5G with Beadle body.

 

 

Bristol VR with ECW body & a Leyland Leopard with Plaxton Paramount body.

 

 

Yet another Bristol L5G, this time with ECW body.

 

 

Bristol RELL6L with ECW body.

 

This was there too. It looks like one of the old land speed record machines of the '20's and '30's:

 

 

Then you look under the bonnet:

 

 

Turbocharged and supercharged Cummins 6cyl diesel. Apparently it goes quite well.

[320touring]

FPB7 shall soil his pants at said twin charged cummins

[tooSavvy]

Dual sliding doors. Lovely.

What? Inside the Tshirt

 

TS

[tooSavvy]

Junior GNR in Newcastle on last Sat. Lots of 'quaint' jollies laid on for the masses....

 

There was a oldi single dekker, front door, ironrailings rad - albion/dennis sort of thing.

Red and white with 'adensfield' in the dest box.

 

Would have papped but lights cycled b4 I could juggle phone

 

*LHN 860 googled

 

TS

[rml2345]

'Tis an ECW bodied Bristol L with a 5 pot Gardner and about 75bhp. Interestingly* ECW refused to body 6 pot Gardner Bristol Ls because they weren't prepared to alter the body.

[Inspector Morose]

FPB7 shall soil his pants at said twin charged cummins

Underwear duly moistened. 

[davidfowler2000]

As informed by Mr FPB7, Lothian had their old 322 out in service t'other day...

http://www.donaldstirling.me.uk/LothianBuses/Lothian-Olympian/i-pxXrNgT/A

[mk2_craig]

Those Lothian Olympians were a nightmare to drive slowly with the super sensitive throttle pedals.

[83C]

A few more pictures:

 

 

38000/1 (D700/701 GHY) at Sourton Cross Services on the A30.

 

To avoid taking things off course on CavCrafts thread, here are some more pics of the Leyland DABs:

 

 

CRM 927T, the prototype Leyland-DAB artic with National-derived bodywork. I wanted to confirm what engine it had (there was some discussion in the other topic about whether it had a Saurer or Leyland lump), and the answer is that actually it doesn't have an engine at all. Given the vegetation around it I didn't bother trying to scrabble around underneath.

 

 

FWA 450V, a 'production' (well, as much as a very specialised hand built vehicle can be) Leyland DAB artic. This differs from CRM 927T in that it uses standard 11.3m National window bays rather than the mix of 10.3 and 11.3 bays on the prototype. It also appears from the shape of the rocker covers to have either an O.680 or 690 Leyland engine.

 

 

The half. Probably FHE 292V, an ex-BA airport example. Didn't even bother trying to see underneath.

[Inspector Morose]

That was it! The bay lengths! I knew there was something different bout the first one.

Pretty sure they were all 690 powered then.

 

What's the score on the open tops?