I do it shows the evolution of a chassis and all the ways it could be configured, after all for me that's what a bus is a truck chassis with windows and seatsi dont see the connection? they are trucks.
That's a keeper looks like it may be out of commission but just looking at it you can see it's been a work horse for many years.na this is a recovery truck.View attachment 137478
i dont know about that .most bus chassis were made for buses. not cement mixers,or dust carts.I do it shows the evolution of a chassis and all the ways it could be configured, after all for me that's what a bus is a truck chassis with windows and seats
When looking at many of the bus pictures they show how many varying body styles were on the same chassis
The auto industry has a long history of putting a new style body on a old platform, example Morris Marina under the sheet metal was a Moggy 1000.
You are of course correct the point I was trying to make is all the variants of body's on the same platform.i dont know about that .most bus chassis were made for buses. not cement mixers,or dust carts.
Also probably stopped your head banging on the ceiling!You are of course correct the point I was trying to make is all the variants of body's on the same platform.
Some bus coach work has 2 sets of doors and other differences on the same chassis.
When I went to college a instructor said a bus chassis had the axles above the frame rails ?, I have always thought this was to lower the COG this increasing the angle of the dangle.
Spent many hours waiting to collect parts from Leyland Motors Wolverhampton road, only parts dept that rarely answered their phone and you needed a packed lunch as you could be there for most of the day,In the 1960s-1970s I lived on the Wolverhampton Road in Oldbury and I regularly saw bus chassis being driven along that road. I always assumed that they Leylands. The driver always had a motorcycle crash helmet and goggles.
Bus, and some ambulance chassis, had their rear axles fitted on top of the road springs to reduce chassis frame height and also cross-members were lowered to provide a lower central gangway.Also probably stopped your head banging on the ceiling!
So am I, but rest assured, there are a million members out there waiting and ready who will be able to explain in words of one syllable to all for us. If push comes to shove I will look in my Leyland Atlantean or D9 books to see what they have to say, because they were both buses built on specialist chassis, I understand.i am comfused now but intregued
You forgot to give us details of the half cab behind it which I assume was a one off with upper saloon front opening lights.BON 531C (3531) a Daimler Fleetline entered service in early 1966. It was burned out on 13/10/71 when in PTE ownership. It was used for a while for training of mechanical apprentices. It was re-bodied, with a slightly longer body, re-entering service in August 1978 as 5531. It had the distinction, it is said, of being the only post war ex BCT bus to be re-bodied.
Since those days of the nineteen seventies other, usually metal, tall steps have been the order of the day I guess.
Thanks....and the drivers name was?It is a good job I didn't as the thread is confused enough!
However, the bus was one of of seven of the 2901 - 3000 and LOG 300 batch, Guy Arab IV: JOJ 926, 967-970 and 998-999. They had Auster opening vents fitted to front and side windows.
Makes sense and of course what I was told in college this would lower the central walkway along with the COG .Bus, and some ambulance chassis, had their rear axles fitted on top of the road springs to reduce chassis frame height and also cross-members were lowered to provide a lower central gangway.
Boomy
The attached picture shows the prototype of the Morris Commercial Dictator bus chassis, photographed at the company's Foundry Lane works in 1929.Makes sense and of course what I was told in college this would lower the central walkway along with the COG .
The attached picture shows the prototype of the Morris Commercial Dictator bus chassis, photographed at the company's Foundry Lane works in 1929.
Boomy
Super picture showing some great detailThe attached picture shows the prototype of the Morris Commercial Dictator bus chassis, photographed at the company's Foundry Lane works in 1929.
Boomy
Before purpose designed low frame psv chassis were used, companies such as Wolseley used truck/bus chassis such as these 1904/05 20hp and 1907 30hp models, both of which were available with single deck or double deck bodies.great pic.thanks
I remember seeing a lot of chassis being driven around those guys would be bundled up like Scott going to the ArticTHIS THREAD WAS CREATED FROM AN ORIGINAL COMMENT BY mw0njm AS SHOWN IN THE FIRST QUOTE BELOW
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does anyone remember bus chassis being driven along washwoodheath rd to mcw. with the driver wearing a biggles hat and goggles? or am i being daft as usual lol.
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My good Lord how far a chassis has traveled (pun unintended) from it's early days the leap from the Wolseley to a Daimler.Before purpose designed low frame psv chassis were used, companies such as Wolseley used truck/bus chassis such as these 1904/05 20hp and 1907 30hp models, both of which were available with single deck or double deck bodies.
Boomy
Before purpose designed low frame psv chassis were used, companies such as Wolseley used truck/bus chassis such as these 1904/05 20hp and 1907 30hp models, both of which were available with single deck or double deck bodies.
Boomy
L/h drive ?, That driving position looks like a long way out there, and so much behind the rear axle.View attachment 137755$18.000,720. wonder if amazon prime sell them.
Where fromi think the old chassis were strong steel a good wire brush,and lots of red oxide they will be still around for years.
not these new tin plate chassis
yes a bus. Anhui Ankai Automobile Co., Ltd.
prob due to all the woodbine smokersBON531C after it caught fire. A rather unsafe looking ladder and platform trolley by the side of it.
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