Here's your rare opportunity to ride with me on a vintage Brill diesel bus - BC Electric #3405, a 1957 Canadian-Car Brill CD52A preserved by the Transit Museum Society of Vancouver (TRAMS). Enjoy your short ride on this piece of antique!
These were used almost exclusively on the KM (Knight-McDonald) and shoppers/trippers. Steering was really heavy. A full day driving this was really work !
Yes, as the Brits say, "underfloor" engines. In Ottawa, they were 4-cylinder AECs, until the 1957 CCFs arrived. The engine obviously changed with the '57s, since the sound was more like a flat-6
What kind of engine did it have? I read they had "pancake" engines (flat 6?) and I know an old guy who called them the "Therpocketa-pocketa-pocketa buses" because of the sound they made. In the video, it sounds like a Detroit Diesel.
when I was a kid pretending I was driving one (on my bike) I would make a "alog alog alog" sound because when I was right up close to one idling that's what I thought I was hearing.
