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Rootes75
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 Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2022 12:44 pm Post subject: A lovely Restoration...historically important too. |
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-62052718
It's really nice to hear that even though these vehicles cost an amazing amount to restore and take volunteers thousands of hours they are still being done, still being preserved for future generations.
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old iron
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| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2022 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Such dedication and commitment, fantastic workmanship. |
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COMMAD
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Location: Gold Coast. Australia
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| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2022 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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 Well worth every penny, thanks to the dedicated restorers...
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Ray White
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Location: Derby
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2022 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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A thing of beauty. I am intrigued by the design of the upper deck which is recessed at the front. So many interesting features ,,,including a raked windscreen.
Simply lovely workmanship. They should alll be very proud of the restoration. |
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016
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Location: East Yorkshire
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2022 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | including a raked windscreen. |
The windscreens were raked to reduce or eliminate reflections of the lit-up interior at night.
More Modern buses featured the same. The tops of windscreens would be sharply curved inwards....
Leyland National buses even had a 'knife board' type screen[metal sheet] positioned so that the [sharp?] edge was directly pointed at the driver's face, on their left of the cab...this screened the right windscreen from much of the interior light reflections. One never stopped quick enough to be thrown forwards and sliced in two.
Reflections of the lit interior at night on the windscreen were the bane of a bus driver's life.
Despite the presence of drop-down blinds behind the cab or the nearside front window [or, behind the entry doors on a front loader]....these were in practice largely ineffective.
Not so bad in a street-lit environment, but out in the countryside, I recall barely being able to see out of the left two thirds of the entire windscreen width on Bristol VRs and Leyland Olympians.
Headlights weren't too bright, and switching on main beam usually impractical [if not unlawful?]...One had to really 'know' where intending passengers might be 'waiting'....
Coming across a cyclist at night, rurally, despite them having a dim red rear lamp, was an almost invisible event. No use making the response of 'moving the bus further over to the right from the kerb' at night....even the main roads were never wide enough to allow that, and safely meet oncoming traffic. Most buses would be around 2.5 metres wide in more recent times....and the older buses such as the one above may be at least 7 to 7 1/2 feet wide.
One became used to 'prioritising' one's limited vision....specifically looking for certain clues..rather than making a general series of observations.
The interior reflections in the windscreen also gave the driver views of some sights better unseen..
When I first started bus driving [ a 'fun' job rather than one of career progression....I liked to earn a living, by doing something I enjoyed, even if it didn't pay as much as my education and possible career path may have allowed]...it was for London Transport, driving the old [even then!] AEC RT deckers.
These had but one headlight lit on dip beam [the N/S one], with both coming on with full beam.
On the odd occasions when it was truly foggy, and on an unfamiliar route..as could happen when fog made all services fall apart.....my conductor would sit on the N/S front mudguard, more or less astride the headlamp, and guide me by the kerb edge...I couldn't see damn all really, even with the one fog light lit.
I never really realised how 'poor' bus headlamps were until I came up hereabouts and drove buses out in the real dark [something not known inn London] Plus how uncomfortable the older buses were for a tall driver.
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Rootes75
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That's a really interesting read.
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