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Post by Dave on Apr 16, 2009 20:17:41 GMT
I do know we have some very educated Devon men on the forum, so brainy that they had to leave here and move to London, This was so they could receive the highest award in wages that their hard work at school and college should receive. Fair enough and rightly so I say, but there is one member who while I would never call him thick, but I could not put him in the same league as the brainy ones, yet he still moved to London. It was a mystery to me really but I just had to try and find the answer. The Internet is a wonderful thing and after much research I finally found the answer I was looking for. You see this member loved driving buses, but the ones in Devon only offered a much lower driving position and therefore a much lower viewpoint from which to be able to see things properly, the way they were meant to be seen.  While in London the buses have a much higher seating position, giving the driver a much better view point and also having the effect of making the driver feel really important as he looked down on those below. A high price to pay if you ask me, but then I'm happy looking at things from ground level.   |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2009 21:04:40 GMT
Devon General livery - and reg plates - but with a Southern Vectis (Isle of Wight) direction display. There's a mystery there...
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Post by Dave on Apr 16, 2009 21:13:49 GMT
Devon General livery - and reg plates - but with a Southern Vectis (Isle of Wight) direction display. There's a mystery there... Not really Barton, from the low driving position Merse was unable to follow the road signs and after a few to many wrong turns, followed by his now famous U-Turns he ended up taking the passengers who got on at Newton Abbot and only wanted to go to Denbury, on a bloody mystery tour, that finally ended with a day trip to the Isle Of White. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2009 21:17:40 GMT
There's a website for everything, isn't there? www.bcv.robsly.com/fdv793v.htmlAnd there was a degree of excitement at Taunton tonight with people taking photos of this:  It's now called "Emily" but - having done some research tonight - I see it was nearly re-named " Joe Strummer" a while after his death. However, as 47818 was away having a refit, that honour went to 47828 (you couldn't make this up, could you?). And - according to www.brushtype4.co.uk/bt4_numbers.php?s_loco=47818 - 47818 went into service on my 10th birthday. Well, what do you know? |
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Post by merse on Apr 17, 2009 2:43:30 GMT
Devon General livery - and reg plates - but with a Southern Vectis (Isle of Wight) direction display. There's a mystery there...  No mystery Barty, merely "cascading"..................the practice of "moving on" unwanted stock from one associated fleet to another. Thus, Vectis take delivery of a "third hand" bus from Reading who have in turn received a nice second hand bus from Swindon. Vectis off load their crappy old wreck to some Thirld World village set up that used to be the envy of the nation with it's pristine fleet and Bob's yer Uncle...................a Vectis bus in Devon but STILL to receive it's local destination blinds, which (no doubt) would have been done "soon my luvver"  |
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Post by merse on Apr 17, 2009 2:57:20 GMT
There was no more perfect a driving position than high up and within nose touching distance of the windscreen in a Routemaster double decker..................absolutletly perfect for judging those widths to a tee and winging through gaps in the traffic and for bringing the vehicle to a halt so close to the one in front, you could hear the urine running down from those sitting directly above you on the top deck!  Whilst I love the old Routemaster, I don't fathom London's "Hate Fest" over the "Bendy Bus". Why these monsters that are used in almost every major city in the world can't be accepted with enthusiasm in our capital makes me cringe, and to claim that some of the streets are too (well) "bendy" for the "Bendy" is as bonkers as Boris himself.......................they have them in the wiinding streets of Bath ~ and for him to claim their days are numbered is just as much political clap trap as his PC campaign for submissions of design for a new "People's Bus" based on the old Routemaster only with doors to close off the open platform. If you ask me, the designs I've seen so far resemble just what I thought it would end up looking like.........................a bus designed by a committee. i.e. a bloody monstrosity! 
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