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Old March 12th 12, 12:23 PM posted to uk.transport.buses,uk.transport.london
Stephen Allcroft Stephen Allcroft is offline
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Default Full hybrid buses

On Mar 12, 10:23*am, wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:55:50 +0000

Graeme Wall wrote:
On a related note , what happened to those hydrogen buses that were plying
their trade around central london about 8 years back and that Mayor Ken made
such a big deal about at the time? Were they sold, scrapped, or just left in

a
depot to rot?


Presumably they could have been converted back to conventional fuel. *We


Doubt it, AFAIR they used a fuel cell, not just a piston engine running on
hydrogen.

B2003


The original ones are scrapped or stored without running units in
preservation hands, some new ones arrived last year; the first lot
were M-B Citaros, the current ones are VDL/Wrightbus.