Robert Ensor (bob)
master brummie
I have no idea but for me it's a sad picture like the love has been lost.
How about the Daf in the car park something else with the love lost.
I have no idea but for me it's a sad picture like the love has been lost.
Thanks for that. i remember some of the buses at miller st depot shaking on tick over. while i was washing them9
mwOnjm, the early engine pads were basically solid rubber (natural) as there really was not any synthetic materials. The solid material really got pounded when big engines were started, particularly diesels with high compression. Eventually the mounts were converted to a form of hydraulic support and absorber.
Thanks Lloyd for picFour 6 volt ones- it was a 24 volt system on post war buses.
Setright 'speed' ticket machine.
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"Tick Over" now that's a term I have not heard in a donkeys age Ha Ha.Thanks for that. i remember some of the buses at miller st depot shaking on tick over. while i was washing them
When I drove for First Cornwall back in the early 2000 if the almex ticket machine was missing they would give you a setright to use. I'd never used one or been shown how to so everyone got a free ride.Four 6 volt ones- it was a 24 volt system on post war buses.
Setright 'speed' ticket machine.
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I tell you what they did do, leave a skid marks as long as you liked from the tyre spin it one belt broke.The only thing in common with those two transmissions is the name, the how it is done is completely different and for very different purposes. The new CVT's are designed for emission/environmental/ecconomy purposes the DAF version was low cost but did not work too well particularly in the rain!
The trams were made of strong stuff.
Wops?
Wops?
That's enough to get a ban, methinks!
Isn't this round the back of Perry Barr garage? I'm sure that 3199 was one of the batch of MOF Daimlers allocated there c. 1974? Like the DAF car. Wasn't it called a Variomatic and had a belt drive automatic transmission? A work colleague had one in a lovely avacado green colour!
Isn't this round the back of Perry Barr garage? I'm sure that 3199 was one of the batch of MOF Daimlers allocated there c. 1974? Like the DAF car. Wasn't it called a Variomatic and had a belt drive automatic transmission? A work colleague had one in a lovely avacado green colour!
August 1939...
Superb bus services along main east to west main route including Charnia, Rethimnon and Heraklion using a mixture of articulated and ordinary three-doored buses with capacity of around 85 including standees. I think that MAN and Mercedes have been the main suppliers. Going to the south the buses are certainly more elderly but are these days less than 20 years old; this compares with some really old buses 30 years ago with even a converted American Firs Army lorry fitted with a bus body. Unlike Cyprus, the "village" buses were not of British origin but were a mixed bag of mainly German vehicles the newest being Mercedes_Benz 0305? coaches dating from the mid 1950s.Nick, re: your post #1760,
None of that technology here in Crete, but compared with 27 years ago when I first came here, the service is now a dream - runs on time with a nice fleet of coaches. 27 years ago was old wrecks of buses with people carrying chickens and even sheep with perhaps three services day, but very unreliable. Now on the main roads, two or three serices an hour between the main cities in the summer, but perhaps half of that number in the winter. But once you get away from the main east west highway, it may be one bus a day and you can get somewhere, but not back on the same day!
Maurice