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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: 05omegav6 on 02 February 2015, 03:49:30
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http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/stuck-bus-driver-tries-140-point-turn-in-norwich-uk/vi-AA8G4Yg ::)
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In the old days they used to teach the Double Decker drivers to do hand brake turns. ::)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VCEnSXq0MM
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Impressive, but lordy knows why you would ever need to do that to a bus load of passengers :o
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Impressive, but lordy knows why you would ever need to do that to a bus load of passengers :o
April 1st is not.
Was part of the handling test for psv drivers,and to show how stable,buses were.
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Impressive, but lordy knows why you would ever need to do that to a bus load of passengers :o
I suppose in case they ever got lost, ended up in Norwich, and needed to turn the Bus around ;D ;)
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 ;D ;D
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Impressive, but lordy knows why you would ever need to do that to a bus load of passengers :o
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 :y
(http://www.old-bus-photos.co.uk/wp-content/themes/Old-Bus-Photos/articles/images/CPPTD%20Tilt%20Test.jpg)
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Impressive, but lordy knows why you would ever need to do that to a bus load of passengers :o
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 :y
(http://www.old-bus-photos.co.uk/wp-content/themes/Old-Bus-Photos/articles/images/CPPTD%20Tilt%20Test.jpg)
I think that depended who you had upstairs..... ::)
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Christ. Would have been easier to reverse back the way they came, surely?
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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.... ::) ;D
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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 :o
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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. :y
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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 :o
That was clearly a Union approved management decision :D
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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. :y
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.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2936448/Four-people-injured-London-double-decker-bus-gets-roof-ripped-TREE.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2936448/Four-people-injured-London-double-decker-bus-gets-roof-ripped-TREE.html)
Oops! :o
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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!!
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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).