catfan 14,793 Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 A good imagination is all that is required, if I defect a bus because the brakes don't feel quite right,then no one will argue ! It's all a matter of opinion. My favourite was in wet or looking like rain weather was to short out the terminals on the cab wiper motor with a key , instant fuse blown & no wiper. You can't drive with no wipers can you ? I once had an inspector board my bus in town & he noticed that the fire extinguisher was missing, nice bus but he insisted I get a change, too easy to have an extinguisher sent out instead change the bus & on a Sunday at your own peril (PSD) changemen ! Having said all that I can honestly say that NCT were top on bus fitness. Report a defect & it's fixed before it goes back on the road again. All craftmen engineers no bodgers. I can't say the same thing for some haulage companies I have worked for....... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 Sounds like Blakey was alive and well back then, Mick. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,597 Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 The latest model for my collection,,Leyland Titan,City of Lincoln bus,1/76 scale Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 I passed my test on one of them belonging to NCT ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,597 Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 I was looking for the NCT one but as yet no luck,there was one some time ago but the price was silly money Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 Those we had at the end were all painted white with Big red L painted on. I think this strategy was to warn motorists & pedestrians to dive out the bleddy way ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deepdene Boy 642 Posted September 25, 2017 Report Share Posted September 25, 2017 They used PD2 Titans for training rather than the older Regent Vs, because there was no syncromesh between 1st and 2nd gear on the Titans, the thinking being that if you could handle the crash change on these, everything else would be a doddle. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 Hence the "Block Change". Absolute doddle. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,535 Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 I passed my test on one of those belonging to Trent Transport training at Giltbrook. The bus was ex. Salford City Transport. (PD.2) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,535 Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 Here it is: reg no. JRJ 268E . Now preserved in its original Salford City Transport colours and living in Belgium I believe. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 In my day Malc the license catorgory was "All types". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 I think the last backenders on NCT went in 1977. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 AEC MkVs Den ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 Not sure on that, I started in 79 and took 3 driving tests and passed them all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,535 Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 5 hours ago, catfan said: In my day Malc the license catorgory was "All types". Class 1 was the same thing. as a matter of interest I was one of the last people in the country to do my PSV in a bus of that type to achieve a class 1 licence. In the April of 1991, (mine test was March) the law changed so that the requirement was that the bus should have to be capable of maintaining 50 MPH. Pushing it a bit with a PD2! Class 1 could then be achieved, and still is, with a single decker and automatic transmission. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deepdene Boy 642 Posted September 26, 2017 Report Share Posted September 26, 2017 Last PD2s were out of service in early 1976, But some continued to be used as trainers until 1979, when they were replaced by Leyland Atlantean PDR1/2s. The last AEC Regents Vs were withdrawn in the autumn of 1976. The last half cabs were the AEC Renowns which were withdrawn 40 years ago, almost to the day, in September 1977. Half cabs made a brief comeback with NCT, when following the fire at Parliament Street Depot in December 1977, two ex Midland General Bristol Lodekkas were hired from Trent. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,597 Posted September 29, 2017 Report Share Posted September 29, 2017 Edinburgh gets new all electric buses this weekend in a £2.8 million revamp,they can run for upto 130 miles and it takes between 3 and 4 hours to fully charge them, come on England start spending some money on transport that people want not on such things as HS2, I look forward to riding on one of these new electric buses next time I'm in Edinburgh Rog ps:Stagecoach launched their first all electric buses in Inverness last year,surprised Compo has not mentioned them Quote Link to post Share on other sites
taxi ray 170 Posted September 29, 2017 Report Share Posted September 29, 2017 Nottingham has quite a few electric buses, all of the medilink buses are electric. They are charged up at the Riverside park and ride site. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 29, 2017 Report Share Posted September 29, 2017 Some of the "L" numbered buses are electric, you'll find a few garaged in the old Sherwood Bus Depot. Range is not brilliant in that they don't last a full shift before needing a recharge. £ for £ are these buses any more economic than conventional buses ! I've traveled on a few of these lectric buses & I'll give em their do, they're certainly nippy. But cost wise I'me not so sure same as the tram, is it anymore economical than diesel power ? How much to power the tram system ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,535 Posted September 29, 2017 Report Share Posted September 29, 2017 What is the cost of generating electricity? And what about the pollution created from the process of generating electricity that the politicians and green freaks conveniently forget about? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 29, 2017 Report Share Posted September 29, 2017 Exactly Malc, I would love to know. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BulwellBrian 107 Posted September 29, 2017 Report Share Posted September 29, 2017 The cost of generating electricity is not simple to answer, each method of generation has different cost, but the cost must include the capital cost of the plant, the operating costs (manpower etc), and the cost of fuel. The cheapest fuel costs must lie with wind and hydro, but only when the wind blows, not generation saves nothing. Nuclear power also must generate full on as well. The highest fuel cost must lie with fossil fuel. The whole thing is very complex. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted September 29, 2017 Report Share Posted September 29, 2017 1 hour ago, BulwellBrian said: The highest fuel cost must lie with fossil fuel. Why is that then ? Are you quoting that because that's what "they" want you to believe, Lets have some proper facts & figures on the table what we can all understand, the lack of such figures say's to me "they" don't want you to know the true cost, why all the secrecy instead of Fossil fuel is the Bogey man of energy all the time. Leaving millions of tons of coal undergrouns was nothing more than criminal. What ever happened to North Sea Gas, all the hype in the '60s where we the great unwashed believed all the cheap gas would change our lives. Yes it did putting up with years of gas conversion & still paying top prices for gas afterwards. Like FLY2 pointed out didn't we flog NSG off cheap to our european neighbours ? If I remember rightly the europeans got the gas cheaper than we did. There are I believe many things the public don't know about energy costs in this country the TRUE cost not what "They" want us to believe. Electric vehicle power is still in it's infancy. I don't see many "Tesla's" driving up & down Bulwell High Road. I'm sure the battery technology doed not exist...................Yet ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted September 29, 2017 Report Share Posted September 29, 2017 I well remember Harold Wilson, the then PM, telling us we'd have free gas for all ! I assumed that 'All' meant us. Not France, Belgium, Holland and Norway ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted September 29, 2017 Report Share Posted September 29, 2017 I remember those days, Fly. Seems like all we got was free hot air, from the politicians. One of the reasons we left. Now it's the same everywhere, probably always was. We just didn't get it. 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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