My grandfather trained as an apprentice mechanic on these Tilling-Stevens buses when Glasgow Corporation Transport department first ventured into buses from trams.
I'm afraid I have no idea. It was a dedicated video camera but with separate lens. I filmed it without having ever touching the camera before. No instructions. My lad got into the Sp12 and just dumped the camera on me.
Look, I'm terribly sorry, but for the life of me, I can't find an interloper amongst the happy crowd of people shown in you short video. These cars were manufactured intermittently in several different locations, using engines and major parts supplied by a wide variety of manufacturers. The company came close to collapse four times over the decades, and was financially reconfigured to such an extent that the average driver would have no chance of following the notes and coins to their ultimate destination unless they were a fully accredited forensic accountant. Now with that backdrop, you're asking the viewers (most of whom have only heard about this marque from news reports of records being broken here and there) to internally memorise all the finer details of each and every chassis style (both "long" and "short") together with car-bodies designed and manufactured by several different entities and then to declare one as an interloper, all based on a tiny video that shows mere snippets of views of one bit of this car and another snippet of that car. Impossible task.😮
The sound was entrancing but there was a lot of other noises going on. I was in a small van doing the videoing with two scaffold boards between me and the driver. He, selfishly wanted access to the gearlever. There was no room left for even a bit of noise. I got a splinter in my elbow. But the car looked great on the road. Everyone looked. A good day.
The only real one in the world is that red one. Built completely by TVR. the purple one was a labor of love, all of the parts TVR except for the engine.
Hi. Thanks for the comment. Not a question I expected. I've looked at some of my images, and there are no discernable markings. There were a number of British tyre manufacturers in the days of hard rubber. The suspension was harsher than modern buses, but not as bad as I expected.
@@WritewheelUK Thank you for your reply. Sorry for deviating from the topic. About 10 years before this bus, Japan's first truck with a domestically produced steam engine was created. The engine was reasonably good, but there is a story that the tires were bad and ended in a big failure. When I see a solid tire, I am very worried.
Привет. как жизнь ? Интересуюсь паровой техникой , хотел бы создать , что нибудь но более современное. Есть от у вас возможность достать чертежи такого трактора или хотябы его двигателя ? Заранее спасибо .
Many of these seem to be very similar. Are many of these built to a commercially available plan or kit? Just curious as I have always loved steam and have some small live steam toys. A Mamod Steam Roller and a "Wilesco" Tractor. If available as a kit or plan I might be interested in building one in my shop.
Robert: Enjoyment for their creators, for their drivers, and for the kids, and big kids to ride on. I spent a thoroughly enjoyable day with them. I know it is not what you meant by your question, and I hope you accept my answer in the spirit it was given. Grown men giving enjoyment to kids - that's about at practical as you can get. Up close, they are remarkable creations. Smelly surely, noisy as well, but everyone loved them. See the parade on ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Hon9tP-HTAg.html I wasn't going to go, but someone cancelled a visit. Boy, am I glad they did. I'll be back. Remarkable. Amberly also has static steam engine days. They are well worth attending. Many have been used for machining, pumping and such. Thanks for the comment, Robert.
@@WritewheelUK Ok i get that. I do the same with radio control model aircraft. I've been building and flying models for over 50 years. The guys in our club like to joke that we are old men playing with toy airplanes🙂
@@robertcovell2787 I tried model aircraft flying, but my creations never managed to land properly. The best I ever managed was for them to arrive. Best of luck.
I had a chat with one of the drivers at the show and he said that the RM was the best tin-fronted double decker ever produced, this in a tone of reverence.
No problem. It was great to see all the Jaguars. A friend, back in the mid 60s, had an XK120, this when I had an MGTC. There was a group of us who owned sports cars: a Sprite Mk1, a Morgan +4 2.2 and a TR3A. The crowd was always thickest around the XK. Thanks for commenting, Steve.
Wow now this is proper F1, the sights, the racing, the omg amazing sounds and this fantastic footage from 1994. Thankyou very much for sharing this footage 👍🙏🤗
Great video. Does anyone know why Schumi overtook Hill in the warmup lap multiple times? Was he not aware of the regulations? Did he intend to intimidate Hill? Was there a technical reason (tire temperature or traction control enabling)?
From watching him at that period, I got the feeling that he felt untouchable. Rules were for others. There was a casualness about his excesses that was also apparent with Senna. I think a lot was taken in from the team. The removal of the safety valve in the fuel pipe for instance. It was obvious to the crowd at Club I was told by someone I knew who was there. Yet the legislators didn't care. They must have known. Other teams did, and the commentators. He was just putting pressure on Hill, hoping for a response. Went a bit too far.
@@WritewheelUK "also apparent with Senna" is that a joke, right? I mean, you're the best humorist i've ever heard of, without a doubt. Senna was disqualified in Suzuka 89 WDC due to a deliberate collison caused by Prost. Later, the own FIA ACCUSED him of the taking Prost off the race, canceled his superlicence and forced him to publicly apologize for his allegations. How the hell is that something close to be untouchable by rules?
@@WritewheelUK I noticed from Brazil that refuelling was a bit too fast, and I was wondering how the hell no one ever noticed that, as it was way too obvious. The fact is that everyone knew that.
No one has added up all the laps Michael Schumacher has travelled under the black flag. What is that number? Can you imagine if he seriously hurt someone when under a black flag - he would have never been allowed in the race car again. Every time he did not respond to the black flag he took himself outside of the officiating of the race and substituted his own rules. Black flags matter. His skiing accident - although he was trying to help someone - was in a black flag zone. Also, he did not sign the driver's statement at Indianapolis 2008 in support of Michelin withdrawing their tires because he saw it as a technical issue and not a safety issue. [He also resigned as Chair of the GPDA that same year.] Some ideas to reflect upon upon the Great Michael Schumacher. Motor Reporter Econ Maki is with The Ape News Pictogram Service an ItsACityOfApes RU-vid Channel
There is no black flag in skiing and it‘s a lie that he went skiing in a closed off zone. He was skiing on a normal piste, but just a few meters outside of the marked zone. He was extremely unlucky by falling onto a stone head first. It‘s fine to criticize him, he‘s not perfect, like every other human being, but if you criticize him, at least get all the facts right, especially for something terrible like that accident, which wasn‘t his fault at all.
