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 The last AEC Regents Vs were withdrawn in the autumn of 1976. The last half cabs were the AEC Renowns which were withdrawn 40 years ago, almost to the day, in September 1977.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
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 9, 2017 Report Share Posted October 9, 2017 Oh dear, I've nearly choked on my tea and fig biscuits as I saw that queer looking bus on the 17 run this afternoon. God, it's horrible. Nearly as bad as those new lilac coloured ones I had the misfortune to see in Arnold this morning. Bring back the green & cream ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted October 9, 2017 Report Share Posted October 9, 2017 Was it this one FLY ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted October 9, 2017 Report Share Posted October 9, 2017 Afraid so ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,136 Posted October 9, 2017 Report Share Posted October 9, 2017 An old friend of mine who used to be MD of Nottingham City Transport many years ago said he wouldn't have let it happen in his day! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Willow wilson 894 Posted October 11, 2017 Report Share Posted October 11, 2017 Not buses in Nottingham but if I may digress a bit. When I were a skinny junior school kid wi' scabby knees and short trahsers, family spent many happy hols at Mablethorpe. We stayed at a b+b in Wellington Square. On High Street opposite Victoria rd is a covered indoor market. That used to be a coach garage which went through to Tennyson st. At 7am I would be dressed and sent out the house while my parents attended to my 2 younger brothers. Which was the time the coaches were driven out of the garage and parked on Tennyson st ready for the day's schedules. I saw a full front Dennis coach one year, chassis-less according to the plate in the cab.(how did that stay straight, I thought). There was always a few Lincolnshire Road car, Bristol chassis, half cab in green and a few other makes which elude me now. Pride of place for me was the one day a week we had a Sheffield United Tours Leyland Royal Tiger in bright red and cream with chrome trim. Twin double-curve windscreen, twin destination blind, and centre sliding door, SUT badge on the sides. Not a straight line on it anwhere. It was like a space ship to me at the side of the other mundane ones. I've still got a soft spot for the mundane ones though. Regards Nottm buses, I have a vague but persistent memory of the bus that went to City Hospital, 17?. I came back into town one evening in 61 or 62 on a bus, double deck, half cab, doors at front and the conductor said was on loan/trial. It looked like a Bristol tin front but may have been a new AEC Renown. I've not seen any in Nottm since, they all seemed to be Atlanteans about then. P.S. I'm not a bus expert but I like to read about them, in fact anything self propelled with wheels or wings. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted October 11, 2017 Report Share Posted October 11, 2017 AEC Renown fpr you WW. ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Willow wilson 894 Posted October 11, 2017 Report Share Posted October 11, 2017 Yep. Far more handsome than the Bristol any day! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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