Bus Shite

[Grundig]

  On 12/09/2017 at 19:57, sierraman said:

Or held against creep with the brakes in gear while the driver takes the fare, until the flywheel oil seal goes.

 

The Leyland National used to rock back n forth & all its passengers too when you did that - quite funny when seen from outside the bus 

[Six-cylinder]

Today.

[davidfowler2000]

cms206 might have some serious wibble over that. I'll send the link.

[cms206]

  On 20/09/2017 at 14:55, Six-cylinder said:

Today.

  On 20/09/2017 at 16:31, davidfowler2000 said:

cms206 might have some serious wibble over that. I'll send the link.

LEYLAND CUB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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[davidfowler2000]

Thought so

[puddlethumper]

Spotted my first bus shite when I had a camera.

 

 

Looking to you bus shiters for info.

[Inspector Morose]

Black Country Tours Roe bodied Atlantean (NNN480W - ex Nottingham).

[lisbon_road]

@Zelandeth, there were a lot of Dominant 1 and 2 coaches on Malta and Gozo.  Some come up for sale occasionally, and I remember seeing a Dominant 1 for sale on Gozo for a long time.  Their condition was normally I believe pretty good bodily as they seemed to get very thorough rebuilds - no doubt not all of them of course.  Costs a bit to get them back but might be less than the rebuild cost.  All came off the road a few years back but tended to be family owned and many survived in sheds (lot of sheds in Malta to keep vehicles and other stuff out of the sun).

[chaseracer]

  On 20/09/2017 at 20:15, FPB7 said:

Black Country Tours Roe bodied Atlantean (NNN480W - ex Nottingham).

 

That - or another very similar in that series of registrations - used to be a caff on the A49 above Leominster.

[chaseracer]

Can anyone identify the tail lights on the middle bus?

 

 

Ta.

[Pillock]

That Leyland Cub belongs/belonged to a racer in the VWDRC, used as accomodation / party bus / den of low moral compass.

 

I think he's now upgraded to the other one. Can't find the picture I had of it with dildos stuck to the windscreen.

 

[Six-cylinder]

  On 21/09/2017 at 07:09, Pillock said:

That Leyland Cub belongs/belonged to a racer in the VWDRC, used as accomodation / party bus / den of low moral compass.

 

I think he's now upgraded to the other one. Can't find the picture I had of it with dildos stuck to the windscreen.

 

That makes sense, it is in secure storage close to Santa Pot raceway.

[atlantean]

  On 20/09/2017 at 16:33, cms206 said:

LEYLAND CUB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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Known in this neck of the woods as a Bathgate bin lorry.  

 

I have a (loose) connection with a preserved example, it's awful, not even shite, just shit. Horrific driving position, dreadful brakes and an automatic.  Not BLs finest hour.

[Zelandeth]

...and I believe the earlier Plaxton Supreme (up to III I think) and possibly the Panorama.

 

Not 100% on that, Plakkys aren't my speciality.

[Felly Magic]

  On 21/09/2017 at 10:58, atlantean said:

Known in this neck of the woods as a Bathgate bin lorry.  

 

I have a (loose) connection with a preserved example, it's awful, not even shite, just shit. Horrific driving position, dreadful brakes and an automatic.  Not BLs finest hour.

Not the idiot Fairchild's 'box of fags'?

[Vantman]

A local coach driver back in my earlier days--

[Inspector Morose]

Looking at the steering wheel and binnacle - I say AEC Reliance. Body? Not sure but I'll hazard a guess at Harrington.

 

Tail lights - Hella units as fitted to Plaxton Panorama Elite up to 1973. The ones that get me are the Plaxton Daimler Roadliners. The chrome surround around the tail lights incorporated vents to get rid of the heat from the rear mounted Cummins V6.

[Zelandeth]

Yeah, pretty sure that's a Reliance. ...looking at the dash, getting along at a fair old lick too!

[Vantman]

  On 22/09/2017 at 01:31, Zelandeth said:

Yeah, pretty sure that's a Reliance. ...looking at the dash, getting along at a fair old lick too!

 

It's this coach--

[Inspector Morose]

Christ, a Beadle bodied one! Should have guessed East Kent because of the red steering wheel.

That means it could be KFN250, 251 or 252?

 

(Edit. Scrap that, I've looked up and they had more than 3 Beadle bodied AECs)

[Eddie Honda]

Spotted this Alexander Volvo B6? lurking out in Ballinalack, Co Westmeath. 

 

IMG_20170920_121044 by E Honda, on Flickr

 

ridgway by dublintruckandbusphotos, on Flickr

 

'1D' traffic - Ridgway 96-D-64508 by Jonathan McDonnell, on Flickr

[quicksilver]

That's an Olympian, imported from the UK by the look of it. The white one behind it in the last photo is the native Dublin style of Alexander-bodied Olympian.

[Grundig]

  On 21/09/2017 at 19:01, Vantman said:

A local coach driver back in my earlier days--

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The Drivers PSV badge KK = South Eastern Traffic Area

[Eddie Honda]

  On 22/09/2017 at 20:04, quicksilver said:

imported from the UK by the look of it.

The highish registration serial number for the year/county would concur with that thought.

[CreepingJesus]

Maybe it's the shade of red on the lower third suggesting to me, but...could the Dublin Olympian be ex Lothian?

[Eddie Honda]

  On 22/09/2017 at 21:32, CreepingJesus said:

Maybe it's the shade of red on the lower third suggesting to me, but...could the Dublin Olympian be ex Lothian?

Actually the answer is in another picture:

 

P1010485 by Cathal O'Brien, on Flickr

 

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"This Volvo Olympian/Alexander RL was formerly of First Berkshire."

 

 

[rml2345]

Looks like one of the Volvo Olympians new to Strathclyde Buses that were dispersed to the four winds by First over the years.

[cms206]

  On 22/09/2017 at 19:21, Eddie Honda said:

Spotted this Alexander Volvo B6? lurking out in Ballinalack, Co Westmeath.

 

IMG_20170920_121044 by E Honda, on Flickr

 

ridgway by dublintruckandbusphotos, on Flickr

 

'1D' traffic - Ridgway 96-D-64508 by Jonathan McDonnell, on Flickr

It's one of the P-TGD batch of Volvo Olympians new to First Glasgow, likely to be the only survivor of about 60 of the type.

 

More interestingly for me... whats the Merc? Looks like a London MA which really is an interesting find.

 

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[Eddie Honda]

Sorry it was pishing doon and I couldnae be arse getting out my cab. I'm not sure when I'm next out that way as I'm shunting round the yard tomorrow and Mon/Tue/Wed on local nights.

 

I think the registration is 89-D-52121 - it does look a bit like a MA.

 

All sorts of shite ends up here if you have a scout around. 

[busmansholiday]

  On 21/09/2017 at 10:58, atlantean said:

Known in this neck of the woods as a Bathgate bin lorry.  

 

I have a (loose) connection with a preserved example, it's awful, not even shite, just shit. Horrific driving position, dreadful brakes and an automatic.  Not BLs finest hour.

 

 

  On 21/09/2017 at 10:58, atlantean said:

Known in this neck of the woods as a Bathgate bin lorry.  

 

I have a (loose) connection with a preserved example, it's awful, not even shite, just shit. Horrific driving position, dreadful brakes and an automatic.  Not BLs finest hour.

 

Having been brought up on AEC's, nothing BL made was particularly good, but the Cub really was a complete and utter pile of shite, even the manual box ones..

 

A firm I worked for bought a couple of these in the mid 80's but to ensure they were even more shite than usual they had them bodied by that well known coachbuilder, Smith, of Leicester.  Smith were better known for building welfare buses and mobile libraries, and our two handled like they had a library full of books on the roof.  They skipped all over the road when you dared put the breaks on, but the piece de resistance was the boot.  Instead of a normal rear boot, these had the whole of the rear ended hinged at roof level.  Great for loading shelves of library books, or wheel chairs, bollocks all use for normal operations. Even better was the fact that unless you remembered to tie a piece of rope around the internal handle, when you let go the rear went so high you couldn't reach it. You had to climb inside and swing off the rear window rail, Tarzan like,  to get the back to come down again.

 

In a previously unrecorded act of bravery  vandalism, somebody broke into the yard one winter night and decided to set up camp in one of the Cubs.  To keep warm (according to the report the rozzers allegedly gave the boss) they decided to light a fire on this particular cub, which unfortunately got out of hand.  By the time anybody else on the industrial estate saw the flames and rang the fire brigade, the flames had sadly spread to the other cub.  Fortunately, that very night, all the coaches that were in the yard had been parked at the opposite end, away from the Cubs, so whilst both were saldy destroyed, only one other vehicle, which just happened to be the oldest vehicle we had, suffered some minor heat damage.  It's wasn't enough to stop me taking it to Hartlepool the next morning.

 

As drivers, we were obviously saddened by the loss, and decided that if the Police could identify the culprits we'd cheefully by their beer for the following week.