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[05omegav6]

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/stuck-bus-driver-tries-140-point-turn-in-norwich-uk/vi-AA8G4Yg

[zirk]

In the old days they used to teach the Double Decker drivers to do hand brake turns. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VCEnSXq0MM

[05omegav6]

Impressive, but lordy knows why you would ever need to do that to a bus load of passengers

[biggriffin]

Impressive, but lordy knows why you would ever need to do that to a bus load of passengers

April 1st is not.
 Was part of the handling test for psv drivers,and to show how stable,buses were.

[zirk]

Impressive, but lordy knows why you would ever need to do that to a bus load of passengers

I suppose in case they ever got lost, ended up in Norwich, and needed to turn the Bus around   

Cause in them days they had no posh Mic and PA System on board, so the Driver would just shout out loud...  Brace, Brace, Brace   

[zirk]

Impressive, but lordy knows why you would ever need to do that to a bus load of passengers

April 1st is not.
 Was part of the handling test for psv drivers,and to show how stable,buses were.

The Tilt Angle test on them were quite impressive as well 

[Gaffers]

Impressive, but lordy knows why you would ever need to do that to a bus load of passengers

April 1st is not.
 Was part of the handling test for psv drivers,and to show how stable,buses were.

The Tilt Angle test on them were quite impressive as well 

I think that depended who you had upstairs.....

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

Christ. Would have been easier to reverse back the way they came, surely?

[Sir Tigger KC]

No wonder the poor sod got lost, the destination sign was flickering so badly that there was no way he could have known where he was going....   

[the alarming man]

In the old days they used to teach the Double Decker drivers to do hand brake turns. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VCEnSXq0MM

They did until some bright spark decided to have the skid pan resurfaced with a non skid surface

[Terbs]

My late father in law had to do all that skid pan stuff. He drove for years for Thames Valley, later to become Alder Valley.

[05omegav6]

In the old days they used to teach the Double Decker drivers to do hand brake turns. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VCEnSXq0MM

They did until some bright spark decided to have the skid pan resurfaced with a non skid surface

That was clearly a Union approved management decision

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

My late father in law had to do all that skid pan stuff. He drove for years for Thames Valley, later to become Alder Valley.

Pfffft. I passed my PCV test about a week before the mental winter in 2010. Looking in one's mirrors and seeing a double decker sliding down a bank, with all four wheels locked... fond memories.

[Gaffers]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2936448/Four-people-injured-London-double-decker-bus-gets-roof-ripped-TREE.html

Oops!

[Darth Loo-knee]

When I was an apprentice the bus depo where I worked had one of these tilt machines. ... They loaded the seats up with sandbags then began to tilt to crazy angles which I would have thought the double decker would have tripped over!!

[dbug]

In the old days they used to teach the Double Decker drivers to do hand brake turns. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VCEnSXq0MM

Talk about nostalgia - my uncle was an instructor on the LT skid pan in the early 60's - and I spent many a happy hour having a go at it around that time (courtesy of my uncle, just prior to me passing my test in '63).