What's the fascination with double deckers in London. They have been used all over the UK since the early 1900's and first used in Paris in the 1800's. Listening her you would think they only existed in London in the early days.
4:12 Enviro400s built for the UK do not have air conditioning. Those fans at the rear are just for ventilation, not proper AC. The ones built for Hong Kong and other tropical climates do, which is why they do not have a lower deck window at the rear as this space is taken up by AC equipment.
When focusing on the engine, I couldn't really help but notice that some of it is Green in colour which reminds me of a similar video which went behind the scenes at a factory in Warwickshire, England where they make the Dennis Eagle bin lorries/garbage trucks and they had 3 different engines to put in their vehicles depending on which country they were going to be used. Green, Red and Black were the colours. Green were the Volvo engines and they were for use in the UK. Black were the Renault engines and they were for use in mainland Europe. Red I think were Tata engines from India and they were for use in Asia. It just so happens that I know MCV has close ties with Volvo so I wouldn't really be surprised if it was Volvo engines being installed in the double decker buses we saw here.
The way they put the bus together with the steel pillars to help support the roof makes a lot of sense and helps create a safe and secure vehicle. The workers do a great job, and work well as a team.
Iraq used the English double decker buses since 1953 untill 2000 they were real very good buses Leyland buses as I remember .. inside buses there was tags wrote on it park royal roe .. but didn't know what does mean I have very nice memories in my childhood and teenage with those lovely buses in baghdad
They used too, Bristol Commercial Vehicles when they were still making buses at Brislington used to drive them to Lowestoft to the old Eastern Coachworks Factory. Those chassis's in the video were built at Guildford in the AD facility there to go to the Alexanders Factory at Falkirk for bodying, except they travel on the back of an artic these days.
that woman on the video is going between 2 different buses, when you see the building the bus is a london 2 door ADL yet when it shows you at 4.30 its a single door stgc bus
So that's how they made a double decker bus that is so cool though the Wonder British people like the buses so much I kind of like them too man I wish we have buses right back where we live
I gather that the reason double deckers have never really taken off in the USA is because they have too many low bridges and flyovers to make it worth their while.
The tv series is based out of Canada 🇨🇦. So the narrators are always Canadian 🇨🇦 You can tell when she says through out the world ( sounds like ooot ) love that accent 😎
But the body structure is too weak for impact. In Hong Kong, there have an ADL E500MMC bus crash into a tree, the bus body is tear away and killed 6 passengers. Also, the body have many cracking sound when the bus driving on rough road.
This is a US TV show, so "gas tank" would be a correct term. Also it's geared towards a casual viewer base and children, who probably won't know what torque is.
Without doubt the best bus I ever drove was the routemaster, much better than OPO, the conductor got all the shite whilst I was nicely tucked up in the cab with no contact with passengers.
am i the only one confused by the fact that they are showing how a uk enviro 400 is made but then cut to a hong kong one lol [the hk one is most likeley a enviro500 if im not mistaken]
Sure is interesting on making double decker buses. However, there needs to be fully conventional double decker buses with the engine in front of the driver's seat and the transmission be placed right beside the driver's seat. No cab-over-engines, diesel-pushers or any nose-less design. E.G. Look up Lancia Omicron.
@@reecewharf Lorries are cab over engine, buses I drive are rear engined to allow a lower seating position for the driver. COE lorries allow shorter wheel bases so they are more manoeuvrable in places that have turns
Merka often forgets that England has a lot more to it than just London, so it wouldn't necessarily understand that double deck buses can be found in a lot more places than London. And not just England either - ISTR Stagecoach started in Scotland, didn't they?
How to convert Transit buses into RVs: 1. Remove all of the seats 2. Realized that due to the sloped floors, it would be way too expensive to do 3. Abandon it in a field
"250" horsepower V6.......That sounds somewhat underpowered for a vehicle as large as a bus, especially a double decker. But maybe the drivetrain puts out a lot of torque to make up for the horsepower. Just sayin'.
The engines rev up to about 2,500 or 3,000 - if you could get that same engine to spin up, the power curve would also increase - so based on a car engine, that would be ~500hp. The real power is the torque, much closer to 700 or 800Nm
Colin Vespa The market for buses all over the world is restricted. No one maker builds enough of them to justify mass production investment. Especially with the different models and specs they produce. All large vehicles built for a specific/specialised purpose are made like this everywhere. The economies of scale don’t exist. And it’s the same with railway vehicles. And especially ships.
+SBS7367Y Svc 196 It mentioned in the video that it has aircon ("The hole above the window for the upper deck air con") Regardless, air con is a pointless feature on british buses anyway. It never gets hot enough and nobody is ever on a bus long enough to make it worth while.
Stefan Trujillo Wrightbus are far better, the hybrid Gemini 2's are just like driving a car. ADL Enviros are crap. Stagecoach use them because they own almost half the company.
