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[Eyersey1234]

One of last years intake of ADL Enviro400 MMCs parked up awaiting duties yesterday morning. 

[petermchugh79]

All tri axles parked till normal service resumes

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[quicksilver]

12 hours ago, petermchugh79 said:

All tri axles parked till normal service resumes

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Thought they would be using those in place of smaller buses. Easier to social distance on a bigger bus.

[108]

4 hours ago, quicksilver said:

Thought they would be using those in place of smaller buses. Easier to social distance on a bigger bus.

Most single door buses are out of service at the moment. Most Dublin Bus services are operating with Dual-door buses. 

[petermchugh79]

Also there really hard on diesel any long out of warranty

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[Six-cylinder]

What am I looking at, I don't remember ever seeing one. Taken from a 1962 film about Britain.

[Eyersey1234]

7 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

What am I looking at, I don't remember ever seeing one. Taken from a 1962 film about Britain.

A bit of googling suggests it's a Bellhouse Hartwell bodied Leyland Tiger Cub, not a body manufacturer I am familiar with 

[Eyersey1234]

https://www-theboltonnews-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/5936448.amp/?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15906235383664&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From %1%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theboltonnews.co.uk%2Fnews%2F5936448.the-ups-and-downs-of-bellhouse-hartwell%2F

 

I found this news article telling a bit of the history of the company, seems at various times they were involved with quite a bit but sadly defunct since 2002.

[sierraman]

Why did Nottingham specify their buses with the huge rubber bumper on the front? 

[Eyersey1234]

I believe it was supposed to reduce accident damage, no idea if it actually worked though 

[sierraman]

Maybe it was pedestrian safety, the big bumper would knock the person up as opposed to under the front. Remember seeing one in Mablethorpe a few years ago I had no idea that Notts had their own spec. It was with another operator doing the route between Skegvegas and the Haven at Mablethorpe. 

[sierraman]

This one 

 

 

[Zelandeth]

Remember back in 2003 a wayward pedestrian having a very lucky escape in Hamilton when we'd had replacement vehicle put on our run down south on the NX590.  They materialised from behind a parked van and got clobbered by the bus, we were doing less than 20mph so the actual impact wasn't huge.

Luckily for them we were in a Bova Futura, so the pointy shape of the nose of the bus just chucked them back onto the footpath where they landed on their backside looking slightly dazed.

We were meant to be in a Van Hool Alizee.  Imagine with the completely flat front on there they'd have been far more likely to end up under the bus.

[sierraman]

If you’ve ever seen someone get run over by a bus, it hits them and puts them on the floor, of the bus won’t stop quick enough they go under. 

[lanciamatt]

My uncle worked for Yorkshire traction is 70s, he has told about a few bad accidents he had, I think while driving Leyland nationals, first was coming upto a bus stop, but just before bus stop was a road turning, he indicated to stop at bus stop but the car thought he was turning left and pulled, he hit it and it flipped it over, ended up on roof. Sadly he also killed a girl who run out in front of him. But he also said he had a nasty habit of changing gear with the hand brake lever, that shook the passengers up. 

[CreepingJesus]

3 hours ago, sierraman said:

If you’ve ever seen someone get run over by a bus, it hits them and puts them on the floor, of the bus won’t stop quick enough they go under. 

Can confirm. Happened to the lad across the road from me when we were at secondary school: Graham thought he'd take a shortcut across the car park as the buses were coming in, and ended up losing his square go with a Kelvin Scottish MCW. One of the ALSxxxY ones iirc. It looked like it had sucked him under, so we assumed he was dead... Not so! Fire brigade had to lift it off him, and he emerged with only minor injuries.

[sierraman]

Not far from me about 20 years ago a couple were ‘making love’ in the road in the early hours of the morning (as you do...) as the bus was returning to depot, it went straight over them thinking they were a bin bag full of crap. Both killed pretty much instantly as it went straight over them. Think the driver ended up with the possibility of doing time over it sadly. 

[willswitchengage]

4 hours ago, sierraman said:

If you’ve ever seen someone get run over by a bus, it hits them and puts them on the floor, of the bus won’t stop quick enough they go under. 

 

The building on the right is a pub - and when the guy gets up he just walks straight in. Lad.

[bramz7]

I remember that happening as I was at work the same day. 

Did they ever find out why the bus went light speed down there? 

[busmansholiday]

On 5/28/2020 at 12:49 AM, Eyersey1234 said:

A bit of googling suggests it's a Bellhouse Hartwell bodied Leyland Tiger Cub, not a body manufacturer I am familiar with 

It is indeed Bellhouse Hartwell. SUT in Sheffield had some Regals with this style body, they were known as "Marilyns" (and for our younger viewers that's because there was a Hollywood actress at that time with big ....).

[busmansholiday]

MDS books have made a few of their older publications available for free downloads.

 

https://www.mdsbooks.co.uk/downloads/

[willswitchengage]

Not sure how well this buses coronavirus thing is going to work as one of the Reading Buses drivers said earlier that they don't have to wear masks ask they sit in the cab behind the ant-vandal screen.

[Eyersey1234]

My chariot for the day. A Volvo B5TL with cheap and nasty MCV Evoseti bodywork. 

[Eyersey1234]

Now for another piece of shite, and these really were shit. I present to you an Optare Excel, the bus that Jack built. Abysmal build quality and terrible both mechanically and to drive, they had no redeeming features whatsoever. 

[bramz7]

Is there any MCV bus that doesn't look pretty awful? The Darts they used to body looked utter pants.

 

The rollerblind on that Excel is making my OCD flair up, I'd lose my shit driving that like that.

 

 

[Eyersey1234]

1 hour ago, bramz7 said:

Is there any MCV bus that doesn't look pretty awful? The Darts they used to body looked utter pants.

 

The rollerblind on that Excel is making my OCD flair up, I'd lose my shit driving that like that.

 

 

We got used to the roller blinds lol, though the fleet is pretty much all digi blind now. Its not just the look of the MCV it's the shitty build quality too, though to be fair the 66 reg Evosetis we have don't seem to be as badly built as the single 15 reg example or some of the 67 reg ones. 

[wesacosa]

1 hour ago, Eyersey1234 said:

My chariot for the day. A Volvo B5TL with cheap and nasty MCV Evoseti bodywork. 

I grew up in Hull, but EYMC were still running Bristol VRs when I used to use the buses. Although I was more a KHCT Atlantean fan myself as my dad used to drive them

[Eyersey1234]

And now for a bus that was the opposite of shite, the Gardner engined Olympians were some of the best double deckers we had. Shame they had to get rid but was due to the age of them and the fact they weren't PSVAR compliant 

[busmansholiday]

Ah the Excel, I just love* that almost vertical dash in front of you.

[Eyersey1234]

55 minutes ago, 83C said:

The bus that was only ever slung together on a Friday afternoon when the entire Optare factory were in full on ‘churn it out and fuck off home’ mode. 

I had the misfortune to experience three of the sodding things - R100/200/300 PAR at Swanbrook in Cheltenham. It was a good day if all three were sent out and also returned at the scheduled time. I seem to recall they all had a habit of blowing coolant hoses out.

We bought 25 of the fuckers new between 1996 and 98 because they were cheap, and they found out why. Bits were falling off within days of them entering service. In fact the P and R reg ones were that bad they were traded in against some MAN 18.220s when only a few years old. When I was based at Pocklington we had one of the shorter ones allocated to the depot for a few months and the bastard thing spent more time in bits being repaired than on the road.