Advertising Last completed movie pages 1942 Guy Arab I Weymann G38Class: Bus, Double-deck — Model origin: 
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◊ 2022-10-16 23:03 |
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◊ 2022-10-17 12:04 |
1942 Guy Arab 1 Weymann Coachwork, Gardner 5LW engine, Utility wartime build standard. Fleet No. G38. London Transport got rid of these buses as quickly as possible after the cessation of hostilities because their bodies contained unseasoned timber and started to fall apart, the Gardner 5LW was grossly underpowered, (HMG would only allow the 6LW to be fitted to buses used in much hillier places than London), and they had a crash gearbox with the positions of the ratios reversed. That is, 1 & 2 on the right, 3 and 4 on the left, and the crews, being used to powerful petrol engined buses with preselector gearboxes, rebelled against them. -- Last edit: 2022-10-17 12:05:49 |
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◊ 2022-10-17 14:49 |
Some years ago I did a survey project which included tracts of forestry near Inverness, and discovered a fascinating local history of WW2 lumber camps. Timber was in huge demand for military production plus coal mining props and so on, but all the normal foresters had been called up. So the call went out to Commonwealth countries to supply labour to support the war effort, and they duly came, built temporary camps and chopped down millions of trees. My survey area included camps for workers from Canada, Belize and Honduras. Similar stories across rest of Scotland and in England/Wales, almost all now forgotten apart from occasional snippets locally. Given this context of emergency mobilisation, I'm not surprised timber was not properly seasoned but was rushed into use almost as soon as felled. Wartime bus production probably had to make do with whatever supplies it could get. |
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◊ 2022-10-17 17:13 |
There are many facets of WW2 that are either below the waterline of common knowledge, or possibly suppressed, even now. Timber is just one item which would not occur to many, whose image of it is just as something to burn, or to veneer Rolls-Royce dashboards. All steel bus bodies were still in the development stage, and plastics and epoxy adhesives still not around much. In respect of the Gardner diesels, the Navy wanted every 6LW they could produce, hence the 5LW powered buses. Even within London traffic, a top speed of 28mph wasn’t really enough. |
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