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Flicking about the net I stumbled across a picture of this
https://www.flickr.com/photos/27204054@N07/12615458285
Northumbria Motor service 303 Leyland Alexander, what a motor.
Got me thinking, what's the top speed of a decker? We once had a driver followed into the depot by the police for speeding in this vehicle, ( rip green grass), he asked the copper why he hadn't stopped him sooner, he replied he couldn't catch him! All in good humour, the polis just gave him a bollocking and that was that, police never used to bother us most of the time. He reckoned the bus was doing well over 80mph in what is a 50 zone for buses. This was before they governed buses down to below 60mph.
The speedometers fitted to buses are notoriously vague, we often had some that didn't work for weeks on end but still got sent out. 303 had a tachograph fitted for private hire work as did many of our deckers, I recall doing Washington services on the A1 to Gosforth park in about 15 mins.
So that's my question, a bus pushes a heck of a lot of air in front of it, what's the fastest decker?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/27204054@N07/12615458285
Northumbria Motor service 303 Leyland Alexander, what a motor.
Got me thinking, what's the top speed of a decker? We once had a driver followed into the depot by the police for speeding in this vehicle, ( rip green grass), he asked the copper why he hadn't stopped him sooner, he replied he couldn't catch him! All in good humour, the polis just gave him a bollocking and that was that, police never used to bother us most of the time. He reckoned the bus was doing well over 80mph in what is a 50 zone for buses. This was before they governed buses down to below 60mph.
The speedometers fitted to buses are notoriously vague, we often had some that didn't work for weeks on end but still got sent out. 303 had a tachograph fitted for private hire work as did many of our deckers, I recall doing Washington services on the A1 to Gosforth park in about 15 mins.
So that's my question, a bus pushes a heck of a lot of air in front of it, what's the fastest decker?