BMC Coaches (new ones)

[RedSparrow]

Saw a short gold coloured modern coach today with a BMC badge on the front.

Thought I was going mad but turns out its a Turkish company selling in the UK who worked with BMC in the 1960s and still use the brand.

So the BMC brand lives on, sort of. A bit like that little Ashock Leyland truck.

 

http://www.bmc.com.tr/indexx.php?f=252f747537c23d566ab9ccaf75c35f69&l=2

[RedSparrow]

Saw a short gold coloured modern coach today with a BMC badge on the front.

Thought I was going mad but turns out its a Turkish company selling in the UK who worked with BMC in the 1960s and still use the brand.

So the BMC brand lives on, sort of. A bit like that little Ashock Leyland truck.

 

http://www.bmc.com.tr/indexx.php?f=252f747537c23d566ab9ccaf75c35f69&l=2

[willswitchengage]

Interesting, I always wondered what was the etymology behind the Turkish BMC. They briefly made (ugly) trucks for ERF too

 

[willswitchengage]

Interesting, I always wondered what was the etymology behind the Turkish BMC. They briefly made (ugly) trucks for ERF too

 

[cms206]

Currently they sell the BMC Falcon, Hawk and Club in the UK IIRC. Industry contacts who have used such vehicles refer to BMC as standing for "Buses Made Cheaply"...

[cms206]

Currently they sell the BMC Falcon, Hawk and Club in the UK IIRC. Industry contacts who have used such vehicles refer to BMC as standing for "Buses Made Cheaply"...

[Cavcraft]

Have you checked out their truck shite too? This still has something a little Leyland Roadtrain about it to me...

 

 

http://www.bmc.com.tr/indexx.php?f=252f ... =13485&l=2

[Cavcraft]

Have you checked out their truck shite too? This still has something a little Leyland Roadtrain about it to me...

 

 

http://www.bmc.com.tr/indexx.php?f=252f ... =13485&l=2

[cms206]

Have you checked out their truck shite too? This still has something a little Leyland Roadtrain about it to me...

 

 

http://www.bmc.com.tr/indexx.php?f=252f ... =13485&l=2

 

 

BMC did, or possibly still do, make these - should be recognisable to UK eyes...

 

BMC in Istanbul 12.9.2011 739 by orangevolvobusdriver4u, on Flickr

 

[cms206]

Have you checked out their truck shite too? This still has something a little Leyland Roadtrain about it to me...

 

 

http://www.bmc.com.tr/indexx.php?f=252f ... =13485&l=2

 

 

BMC did, or possibly still do, make these - should be recognisable to UK eyes...

 

BMC in Istanbul 12.9.2011 739 by orangevolvobusdriver4u, on Flickr

 

[Cavcraft]

Reminds of a cross between

 

and

[Cavcraft]

Reminds of a cross between

 

and

[cms206]

Close... nearer to this though...

 

Leyland Super Mastiff by troberts0, on Flickr

[cms206]

Close... nearer to this though...

 

Leyland Super Mastiff by troberts0, on Flickr

[Mash]

I always liked those weird looking ERFs. A lot of the dustcarts round here are BMCs.

[Mash]

I always liked those weird looking ERFs. A lot of the dustcarts round here are BMCs.

[RedSparrow]

Mastiff! of course!

[RedSparrow]

Mastiff! of course!

[CreepingJesus]

I think they've fared better over here, with the buses than the trucks. It's the same recipe tho'; Cummins engine, ZF box and steering gear, Meritor axles. All nice and well understood by your average fitter, and his local factors, so no great servicing problems.

They were supposed to be putting some effort into cracking the UK 7.5-18T market some years ago. They offered package deals, such as the bin trucks, and council-spec multi purpose tippers and so on. Along with Mitsubishi Fuso, Daewoo Avia and others, they seem to have ground to a halt, even in these straitened times; 'cos the trucks are just that bit too pov-spec for even the hardest hearted, penny-pinching gaffer to order!

However, the package deal ethos seems to have worked out better in the bus market; there's a few operators round here (notably Rennies in Dunfermline) who don't mind chucking a luxury* coach at the school run!

 

Wasn't the ERF EP6 just a recab of the ES/EC6 chassis, after MAN pulled the plug on the formerly Steyr cab that ERF were using? Small wonder the Turks thought the Cummins/ZF/Meritor combo would sell here; that's what they'd have seen being bolted onto the chassis rails in Sandbach, and in Leyland too...

[CreepingJesus]

I think they've fared better over here, with the buses than the trucks. It's the same recipe tho'; Cummins engine, ZF box and steering gear, Meritor axles. All nice and well understood by your average fitter, and his local factors, so no great servicing problems.

They were supposed to be putting some effort into cracking the UK 7.5-18T market some years ago. They offered package deals, such as the bin trucks, and council-spec multi purpose tippers and so on. Along with Mitsubishi Fuso, Daewoo Avia and others, they seem to have ground to a halt, even in these straitened times; 'cos the trucks are just that bit too pov-spec for even the hardest hearted, penny-pinching gaffer to order!

However, the package deal ethos seems to have worked out better in the bus market; there's a few operators round here (notably Rennies in Dunfermline) who don't mind chucking a luxury* coach at the school run!

 

Wasn't the ERF EP6 just a recab of the ES/EC6 chassis, after MAN pulled the plug on the formerly Steyr cab that ERF were using? Small wonder the Turks thought the Cummins/ZF/Meritor combo would sell here; that's what they'd have seen being bolted onto the chassis rails in Sandbach, and in Leyland too...