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8mm cine film, London Transport skid pan 1964, shot by my grandad

thx1138thx1138
edited October 2010 in Chit chat


He shot most of it himself, he can be seen in the film at around 1:26. getting in the bus to drive it. He did work for London Transport and he did do the skid pans, but he only pretended for this home movie. :)



it might be a bit wonky, take a while to load/work? It's been messing about on and off for me just now.
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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited October 2010
    wont work here, 4 times i just tried and it goes straight to 9 minutes 10 then finishes
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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited October 2010
    yeah, over the last hour it's been very tempremental.

    Does work sometimes though. Something to do with not having many hits, or something?

    Try later, another day even?
  • fogfog
    edited October 2010
    worked fine.. was gonna say chiswick is shut now? it's not too far from me.
  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited October 2010
    Worked fine here too....

    Does anybody know if they still make Bus Driver's take lessons on a skid pan? It's just that given some of the near misses I've been subjected to on local buses, you wouldn't think so....

    :)
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  • wilsonsammwilsonsamm
    edited October 2010
    Wow!
    The stability of those double decker buses always surprises me.
  • zx1zx1
    edited October 2010
    Didn't work here either i'm afriad. I tried 5 times.
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  • WinstonWinston
    edited October 2010
    Works fine here.

    Those buses so look as if they're gonna flop on their sides, but don't quite tip over. I bet if it were the Top Gear crew, there'd be a huge pile of double deckers on their sides by now...

    Friend of ours (just retired) was a bus mechanic in Liverpool. They used to take the buses out late at night and get up to similar shennanigans...
  • fogfog
    edited October 2010
    deadpan666 wrote: »
    Worked fine here too....

    Does anybody know if they still make Bus Driver's take lessons on a skid pan? It's just that given some of the near misses I've been subjected to on local buses, you wouldn't think so....

    :)

    dbout it , not in W. London / any more , errm they closed down chiswick skid pan IRC. and people were wondering how the standard went down.. I almost had a bus total my 4 day old brand new car.. I mounted a curb to avoid it hitting me.. I was furious.. he just pulled out THEN indicated.

    It's not a job I'd want esp at 3pm with the school kids, make the little sods walk, no free buses like we had back in the day.. = less lardies

    I work with someone who looks like blakey without the tash :)
  • guesserguesser
    edited October 2010
    Winston wrote: »
    Works fine here.

    Those buses so look as if they're gonna flop on their sides, but don't quite tip over. I bet if it were the Top Gear crew, there'd be a huge pile of double deckers on their sides by now...

    Friend of ours (just retired) was a bus mechanic in Liverpool. They used to take the buses out late at night and get up to similar shennanigans...

    those old double deckers have a *very* low centre of gravity

    surely you've seen the classic photo of the tilt tests?

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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited October 2010
    A lot of my family worked for London Transport back then. Dad and grandad were qualified bus drivers, but never actually took passengers, both worked in the repair depots.

    Those big skids, are the drivers being shown how not to do it. They'd be told to drive, then the instructor would lean over grab the wheel and opposite lock to make it skid, to show them what the skid was.

    Then they'd have to stop in a controlled a manner as possible. I think that's what happened.

    I did go there once when I was a very small child, but don't remember much.
  • WinstonWinston
    edited October 2010
    guesser wrote: »
    those old double deckers have a *very* low centre of gravity

    Yes, but the Top Gear crew would have "fixed" that first :-)
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