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Pumping useful heat out of the Tube
eGraeme Wall wrote:
On 02/09/2019 19:25, Graham Harrison wrote: On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 00:35:55 +0100, Bryan Morris wrote: In message , Recliner writes Marland wrote: Bryan Morris wrote: In message , MissRiaElaine writes On 01/09/2019 19:00, Marland wrote: Anyhow if it wasn’t for American influence the Underground would not have developed in the way in it did. Do you object to them calling the vehicles cars instead of coaches for instance. No, but I do object to people who call coaches buses. They are quite different. A coach is simply a single decker bus. .5 seconds on the web finds plenty of operators of double deck coaches though this was first hit , https://www.procterscoaches.com/the-...double-decker/ so that it is pretty poor attempt to define one. And it is not a recent innovation that we have had double deck deck coaches in the UK,National Express were using them decades ago , stopped using them after an accident and reintroduced a small number a few years back. Isn't a coach simply a bus with lots of secure luggage space (normally under the floor) and capable of cruising at motorway speeds (ie, ?100 km/h) all day? These days, it would also have seat belts, aircon and quite possibly a toilet and refreshments. It might also have overhead luggage racks and some sort of AV system. BEA / BOAC used double deck coaches mainly for luggage on the lower deck whilst passengers mainly sat upstairs (diverging I remember when downstairs a bus was called "inside" as opposed to "outside" for upstairs) BOAC used Atlanteans in that configuration https://www.flickr.com/photos/aecsouthall/40612039785. BEA used a one and a half layout with seating over the luggage area (can't remember the make) https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Locati...y_England.html Southern Television's first Outside Broadcast unit was a conversion of one of those. Interesting, I was expecting it to be one the BEA coaches I used to see on their way to the airport in the sixties as in the link above which were AEC version of the AEC Regal and with a strong family resemblance to the AEC Regal single decker buses seen all around London outskirts in that era. The Southern TV one is a much older model which a search reveals to be a Commer Commando and I have no recollection of seeing one of those at all so presumably were withdrawn when I was still too young to remember or all my attention was on the Trolleybuses. Only picture I can find of it. https://images.app.goo.gl/eL3qyWdzR88jfmvN8 Apparently the RAF had some as well. Some info here and a survivor here. http://yorkshireairmuseum.org/exhibi...r-commando-q4/ GH |
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