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[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.

[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.

[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?

[lisbon_road]

I seem to remember a few years back that all First companies were obliged to send all their used buses for scrap.  Was I wrong, or has it changed, or is this example of the open toppers and exception?  They've lasted well if they are just coming off now, that's for sure.

[cms206]

Popped out to do a wee airport transfer in Melbourne 15 years ago but by the time I got there the airline had shut.

 

 

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[Felly Magic]

Giles Fearnley, the new gaffer at First bus division scrapped that rule, I know of one operator that's had a fair few Wright bodied Scanias and Volvo Olympians for further use from First Leeds, Huddersfield, Norwich and Essex. There are quite a few escapees now, but knowing how First treat their buses, I wouldn't touch em with a bargepole

[davidfowler2000]

My Olympian is ex Stagecoach and in all fairness, isn't the worst. Isn't exactly the best either but seeing as I didn't have first pickings I can't complain. Also being a school bus for years meant it wasn't exactly top priority.

 

Anyone got a spare £3500 for a gearbox overhaul?