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3 hours ago, artdjones said:

I believe one postman fell out of the van and over a bridge parapet 

Did anyone ever get their arm amputated or get decapitated by the door moving forward under hard braking? ( Probably not with a Bedford  CA as the braking deceleration wasn’t much faster than the maximum acceleration - 0-60 eventually).

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19 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Did anyone ever get their arm amputated or get decapitated by the door moving forward under hard braking? ( Probably not with a Bedford  CA as the braking deceleration wasn’t much faster than the maximum acceleration - 0-60 eventually).

Not quite but our Biology teacher had the top of her thumb fairly cleanly removed by such a sliding door that used to be on our school minibus. It was when I found out that teachers could swear. A lot. And creatively too. Including the hot female ones.

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7 minutes ago, Inspector Morose said:

Not quite but our Biology teacher had the top of her thumb fairly cleanly removed by such a sliding door that used to be on our school minibus. It was when I found out that teachers could swear. A lot. And creatively too. Including the hot female ones.

I found out about how much teachers could swear when one of ours got struck by lightning while we played cricket. ( It hit his umbrella which he dropped PDQ)

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6 hours ago, martc said:

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Obviously a UK car but with an obscured Italian plate, what's going on?

Looks like a mk1 fiesta in the background ?

Actually just relooked at the photo and the RAC and AA badges look 80s

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1 hour ago, Metal Guru said:

Did anyone ever get their arm amputated or get decapitated by the door moving forward under hard braking? ( Probably not with a Bedford  CA as the braking deceleration wasn’t much faster than the maximum acceleration - 0-60 eventually).

Met Police had Mk 2 Transits (up to around 1983-ish) with sliding doors - SWB, no side windows used as station van/prisoner transport.  There were 'orrible rumours of guys falling out of them, unpinned doors taking the passenger's head off etc etc but they were just that, rumours. I did see a couple of the doors slam shut under braking though, taught you to keep your elbows in :-)
I seem to recall that they modified the Transits at one point by moving the nearside mirror onto the sliding door and removing the ability to lock the door back, idea being passengers were less likely to fall out as the driver would need the door shut to use the mirror  (and prisoner security - the driver had a plywood bulkhead around the back and part sides of his seat but there was feck all on the passenger side - just the seat).

The replacement vans were 100% hinged doors though.

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1 hour ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

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I've been skiing there - Sestriere. It was built by FIAT in the '30's, as a healthy holiday resort for its workers, it's 60 miles from Turin. The people at Alfa have a brass neck to use it as a background for their advertising.

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On 30/10/2024 at 17:04, Metal Guru said:

Did anyone ever get their arm amputated or get decapitated by the door moving forward under hard braking? ( Probably not with a Bedford  CA as the braking deceleration wasn’t much faster than the maximum acceleration - 0-60 eventually).

Lots of companies used walk through vans with heavy sliding doors. before about 1990. Initial Laundries having loads of these Leyland FGs.6274140148_98621e0ef5_c.jpg.940b196d9af655f54ed349c7cb669b99.jpg

I remember two of us standing up beside the driver, a friend who worked for Initial, who had borrowed the van to move some gear. The outboard standee was very close to having a finger removed at a traffic light on Penarth Road, Cardiff.

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52 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Initial Laundries

To be pedantic, it's Initial Services. The  UPS delivery vans have sliding doors I think

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2 hours ago, High Jetter said:

To be pedantic, it's Initial Services. The  UPS delivery vans have sliding doors I think

Most vans these days have a sliding door for the front of the cargo bay.  It would be unnecessarily complicated to have a sliding door , sliding over that. 

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8 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Most vans these days have a sliding door for the front of the cargo bay.  It would be unnecessarily complicated to have a sliding door , sliding over that. 

Huh?  We're talking about sliding side doors to the cab, like that FG and the UPS vans

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36 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Huh?  We're talking about sliding side doors to the cab, like that FG and the UPS vans

Yes, but if you have an opening cargo door to one (or sometimes both) side, a feature almost standard these days, where does the sliding cab-door on that side slide to?  One will interfere with the other.  Hence the slam doors to modern cabs.

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18 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Yes, but if you have an opening cargo door to one (or sometimes both) side, a feature almost standard these days, where does the sliding cab-door on that side slide to?  One will interfere with the other.  Hence the slam doors to modern cabs.

Of course, I get that. The discussion was about walk-through vans though, I thought, which don't have sliding side doors to the cargo area, like that FG.

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7 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Of course, I get that. The discussion was about walk-through vans though, I thought, which don't have sliding side doors to the cargo area, like that FG.

Ah, sorry; I thought we were considering vans in general.

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The VW factory, as we know, was revived by the British after the second world war and run by the army after British car makers rejected the design/'free' factory (don't forget retrospection has perfect vision). The MoD ordered a batch because a) they needed them, b) British manufacturers were also struggling to meet orders after the war due to war damage etc and c) they were running the factory and needed the orders to keep it going.

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