Videos of buses, mainly rear engined step entrance buses with a distinct lack of modern built stuff. I make no apology for the large number of Leyland National videos, they just sound and look fantastic.
Videos are shot without a tripod, hence the shaky video name. However there is an emphasis on NOISE in a lot of the videos, which will hopefully make up for the shakiness of the picture, so turn the volume down if you don't want to disturb your neighbours or make your windows rattle (or shake).
All videos were filmed by me unless stated otherwise.
The banner and profile picture on this channel is of Class 97/2 departmental locomotive number 97252 'ETHEL 3', formerly Class 25 number 25314, on a railtour at Appleby on the 11th February 1989. For more information on the ETHEL's click on the 'ETHELS' link below. Note this is a third party website with no connection to me.
I do love a nice National! Reminds me of my younger years in East Kent and being stupid enough to cross Roads behind them and getting "Napalmed" by drivers as they pull away
The smell of an older diesel engine is magical to me. Love it, at Hardy‘s animal farm where me and my family go for a day out in Sutton they have a marvellous Massey Ferguson 135 tractor named Fergie. Her Perkins engine smells amazing
I'm in heartfordshire where are you? For a price i don't suppose a ride/viewing is possible . Late 80s early 90s childhood memos i really can't let go of @@ethelsshakybusvideos
I drove one of the first Leyland National buses for the Northern bus Company based at Winlaton Depot. They were a breath of fresh air after driving the old style buses with crash boxes. They were great to drive, light controls and easy to handle. Great buses. The happiest days of my life.
@@jamesfrench7299 My experience with Voiths were in Volvo Olympian's for city driving, I didn't like them as we had to use them rural (Devon) And they were basically gutless, Give me a town and country Volvo Olympian (Which i also drove) with a ZF gearbox for rural any day! 👌
Whereas I drove MAN SL202s with Voith and the aforementioned engine and liked driving them. They were not popular with most drivers as they were very slow off the mark but gave a nice smooth takeoff for passengers. They were ok once they got going. I found the ZF version of the same bus rougher and noisier. The Voith was kinder on the engine.
Was there no cold start device fitted as standard to leyland nationals? Start Pilote fluid pump for example would have saved the starter motor churning away.
I can remember seeing these Yellow Super Bus Leyland nationals on my first trip to Stevenage. (1978) They did stood out with middle door exit. Super long roof pod. Canary Yellow and Blue livery. Most nationals were leaf Green in the home counties.
Very old bus 🚎 made in 1975 or 1976. Over 30 years old at the time. Now in 2023 is aged 47 years old. Of course Leyland National buses 🚍 could be around in 2030 in 7 years time. 🙂
Was part of the design team for the National 2. One of the objectives was to do something about the rear view. It does look like the back end of a bus!
I wonder what makes those Leyland engines so much worse to start from cold then similar engines of the same age. I'm no expect but my guess is it is in the fuel pump design, that shifts the timing at start rpm's too late hence making it start "less easy". Mechanical fuel pump are designed to perform to certain standard with "operating rpms" between low idle and high idle, so the start performance at 100-150rpm is more or less a coincidence, and much related to the basic mechanical design and pump cam profile. I guess it was good enough for the Leyland engineers back then to accept it.... (give me a break and don't start with no glow plugs, compression to start, bla bla bla...)
@@slavishadThe 510 engine is a high compression engine 17:1 so to maximise fuel efficiency back then the compression was high. The lower compression ratio the quieter and less vibration but more fuel burnt though turbo can lessen this. Modern diesels have lower compression and a more complete firing order due to common rail technology making them more refined in sound.
@@cornishadz That doesn't explain why Leyland engines struggle much more then other engines of the same age seam to do. Take a Scania engine from the same age, with mechanical fuel pump. At around 0 degrees those fire up just by looking at the starter button!
