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Monday, April 22, 2024
If you can believe this, there was a time in my life when I drove those exact British double deckers, and they are amazingly stable and resist tipping over. Don't ask me how I know.
A very heavy steel chassis and running gear with aluminium body keeps the C of G low. There's a video of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42f3Cn6XlSk
Note - in ye olde English a stone is 14lbs so the sandbags simulate 30 passengers at 140lbs each. Al_in_Ottawa
I did it in Central California, City of Davis. Unitrans, I still have my employee free pass, which I have carried for literally decades but never used. The way those things shift is also very English, and takes some getting used to.
Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, in the '70's, used these to run people from the parking lots to the park. There were dozens of us, 18-21 years old, driving them back and forth all day. Fun times.
Day one, CTA bus training...A session on the oiled skid pad. Got through a complete season until my last day. Bus could weigh many tons, loaded, I remember.
A very heavy steel chassis and running gear with aluminium body keeps the C of G low. There's a video of course.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42f3Cn6XlSk
Note - in ye olde English a stone is 14lbs so the sandbags simulate 30 passengers at 140lbs each.
Al_in_Ottawa
Bingo. Must of been fun cw, I found it difficult to drive in England. Because the roads were so screwy, not logical layout.
ReplyDeleteI did it in Central California, City of Davis. Unitrans, I still have my employee free pass, which I have carried for literally decades but never used. The way those things shift is also very English, and takes some getting used to.
Delete------the ones I saw were all backwards
ReplyDeleteIt was all the oncoming cars full of screaming people in the right lane that put me off.
ReplyDeleteBusch Gardens, Williamsburg, in the '70's, used these to run people from the parking lots to the park. There were dozens of us, 18-21 years old, driving them back and forth all day. Fun times.
ReplyDeleteDay one, CTA bus training...A session on the oiled skid pad. Got through a complete season until my last day. Bus could weigh many tons, loaded, I remember.
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