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Wesley Tierney
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Interlink Launch Promotional Film "A new partnership for passenger transport" Hertfordshire Buses
The official launch film released in February 1999.
Interlink in the name of an innovative new partnership between local authorities, bus and train operators in Hertfordshire. Its chief aim is to encourage greater use of the country passenger transport network, particularly through better provision of network information and by fostering more co-operation between all the parties involved.
Launched in February 1999, this video explains the background to the creation of the Interlink Partnership, how it will work and how it aims to help Hertfordshire's travelling public. Roughly five minutes long, it is presented by Gwenan Edwards, well-known on television as a regional new presenter.
This is a superb piece of transport social history, converted from VHS to explain the evolution of bus travel in England. Find out more at my website, www.wesleytierney.com
Interlink in the name of an innovative new partnership between local authorities, bus and train operators in Hertfordshire. Its chief aim is to encourage greater use of the country passenger transport network, particularly through better provision of network information and by fostering more co-operation between all the parties involved.
Launched in February 1999, this video explains the background to the creation of the Interlink Partnership, how it will work and how it aims to help Hertfordshire's travelling public. Roughly five minutes long, it is presented by Gwenan Edwards, well-known on television as a regional new presenter.
This is a superb piece of transport social history, converted from VHS to explain the evolution of bus travel in England. Find out more at my website, www.wesleytierney.com
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National Bus Company (NBC) "They don't grow on trees" Training Film Complete
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The complete, restored and unedited National Bus Company (NBC) Training Film produced by World Wide Pictures in the 1970's/80's. The production aimed to reduce the needless wear and tear of more complex and advanced vehicles being introduced to replace the more rugged vehicles nearing the end of their lives. The film features wonderful footage of Driver Bailey at the wheel of a semi-automatic L...
What a well spoken young man. Don;t make 'em like that anymore
This is right up my street! I've been "on the buses" since the Summer of 1972. For over 50 years, this sort of thing has been my hobby.
Really wrecked the ship, hah! But he was being paid to do it as a character, I bet.
While on the A42 north from Birmingham to the M1 today 09/04/2024 their was a white 72 seat size coach with passengers exceeding the speed limit by a lot ,i understand the speed limit is 60 MPH this guy was doing 60 to 70 and not only that there is a weight restriction on the outside lane for any vehicles over 7.5 tons and this coach driver totally ignored it as he was flitting in and out of outside lane like he was driving a car, professional drivers ,what a joke
'very interesting and informative
I worked for a National Bus Company London Country including Green Line
Estos vídeos valen oro!
He is foolish, then they blame the immigrants.
Leyland national great bus loved them drove for Alder Valley Newbury only left because busses were de nationalised
Bailey knew how to drive properly but he was annoyed because management constantly refused to use his preferred pronouns and UA-cam commenters from the future mocked his Cornish Pasty shoes. So he took his frustrations out on the bus. Can’t blame him/her really.
Driver Bayley total ledgend mate 😊
11:12 "ahh yes, very satisfying" - driver Bailey.
Deregulation Caused Us To Drive Like That Pause Through Gears When You Should Be Half Way Home Don't Want O/T Great Though In An Ideal World But That Never Ever Happened
I'm staying with Easyjet, never seen them hit the curb or engage reverse whilst going forward. There again never lost a suitcase on National Express. Conclusion: Can't Win!😢
Whoa?!!... What are you doing?! How walk away that?! See 2:30sec. 😧
What is the music that is being used it's really good
I get the impression no-one ever messed with Bastable.
Love old dramatic training videos love the music also 😂
It’s called Chance by John Saunders
Great stuff. And Tony Bastible to boot. Top gear never been the same since he left ! 😁
I appreciate these old videos that actually explain the technical problems and the ramifications of not treating machines correctly. No one is taught technical details today and I can’t stand it. I once had the opportunity to ask an engineer at Rolls Royce about details of a turbine engine. I can’t remember the exact thing I asked but I swear the guy just said “oh I’m not sure about all of that, that’s more on the science side of it”. But… he builds the thing. He builds it and he doesn’t even know how it works? People really are organic machines now, doing what they’re told and not even knowing what they’re doing.
In the bus operator in my area, the people having a contract at them and not being from an employment service are all taught the ins and outs of the engines of the buses here (Scania Omnilinks and a couple of Scania Higers, though those are driven by a touringcar company, they have a truck-like gearbox and are very uncomfortable to drive on as a passenger). One of the drivers that once made a remark about that when talking with me, did mention that it was pretty weird given how basically it was like this "If we get a warning icon on the LCD, we call the maintenance guys and they figure it out, it's rare that we get to mess with it ourselves honestly, so it sounds pretty useless to give us that training."
@@Dutch3DMaster I must get a job there, I’ll fit right in haha. Where is your area?
As one of these schoolboy managers said that we were inflicted with post deregulation. A bus driver is the most expensive component in a bus; and the easiest to replace. I left the industry in 1994 after 19 years driver and conductor. Don't miss it one bit. A shame because I once loved my job
Filmed at Lawrence Hill Depot. I remember been on the 87 or 88 bus going into that place, and then having to wait while they changed drivers.
Didn't he used to present Magpie in the early 70s?
Shots there of Bristol city centre with the original road layout. Shots of Durdham Downs in Bristol too. I'm from Bristol, born in '74 and I remember riding Nationals. I loved them as a kid. The button in the centre of the windscreen always facinated me.
I remember helping to make this training film as a technical assistant in Bristol. I spent a week with the film crew and the presenter. it was a really interesting time and I even appear in the film driving the bus onto a pit and popping up to undo a nut on the steering! Well done for preserving this
Was this Lawrence Hill depot?
@@shaneraines2094 Hi Shane, the Bristol part was filmed at Berkeley House and the mechanical bits were CRW central repair works now a trading estate on the same site as Lawrence Hill depot.
I should licence Saunders' Chance, and see if I can speak to the successor of National about licencing the script of this kinda idk
I don't know much about buses, but why not just a regular Manuel? Or automatic transmissions? To do all this seems like a great deal of trouble while driving
London Transport introduced pre-select gearboxes with fluid flywheels in the 1930s. The semi autos were a development from that. Manual transmissions have a clutch to wear out, which it did, very quickly in urban operation. Automatic options were available on the buses featured but they were for the most part deemed unnecessary where most of the drivers of this era had come from crash 'box vehicles and new how to change gear. The early automatics weren't exactly smooth either, the technology wasn't available to make them better. The first properly smooth automatic bus came in 1977 with the MCW Metrobus with Voith DIWA automatic gearbox and integrated hydraulic retarder. It was a game changer for sure.
Should have bought some Volvos
The prototype for Alan Partridge.
On WMT in the 70s almost all the drivers left the bus in gear at the stops (typically a Damiler / Leyland Fleet line with a preselector gearbox and Gardener engine), it was exceptional if they disengaged the drive.
Modern transmissions go into neutral by themselves when the bus is stationary with the brake applied. I remember the Voith box did that with the tell tale whine.
OMG it's amazing they let a human drive the bus
I used to love driving these semi autos. Once you got the hang of it you could really give a nice smooth ride. Drivers these days have much less to do...
Less to do. But the buses are worse.
The good old Leyland National - when Pfizer used these to bring us workers to their site in Sandwich one day I got covered in oil from the roof pod at the back, it decided to spring a leak :(
This is classic partridge.
They were still using this training film at Luton & District transport (now Arriva) in the mid 90s…..
What was not mentioned to that coasting for too long causes the bus to lose air and the air light did come on.
Bus drivers appear to be very much put upon...almost every one I have greeted upon boarding looks about one shift away from breaking down.
What do you expect when they have enemies on at least four fronts, the passengers, other motorists, other bus drivers and management?
I love this background music
I think it could be by John Saunders aka Astral Sounds. ***Edit***. It's called Chance by John Saunders
Brilliant vid! I love the old days!
So... There is basically no good way to drive this thing downhill. If you coast downhill, the transmission bearings get no oil, and if you brake too much on the way down, the brakes will get hot, and reduce your braking capacity. And semi-automatics hardly do any engine braking.
If you go down through the gears properly there shouldn't be a problem, it's when jumping a gear that problems can start , it's like in a manual car you rev match when downshifting for a smoother ride and not put strain on your drivetrain etc
@@stevedickson5853 however, torque converters are not very good at bringing power from the transmission, back to the ehgine, due to the stator mounted on a freewheel hub.
Thus is why modem automatics are the best answer with their retarders, although Leyland later introduced retarders to their semi automatics in the 1980s, a feature sorely needed earlier.
It depends on the gearbox. I would have to assume that by then, lockup torque converters were standard equipment, and not all of them were on freewheels as you say upthread. Our presenter notes that engine braking was a thing on these semi-automatics. The correct solution is to move through the gears properly, and use the footbrake as necessary, which it will be, but less so than in neutral.
@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 no, they didn't have lock ups as standard. It was a relatively rarely taken up option with the gearbox, but I don't think any Leyland Nationals got them. The only gearbox I know of with any lockups I can confirm some received was the rarely taken up ZF 2 HP500 two speed full automatic transmission that locked up in final drive.
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finally I FOUND IT
Very patronising style though...
If there were anything I would do differently? Not wear brown shoes with black trousers.
Makes Stan in On the Buses look like the perfect bus driver
Is that a bus or a northern fail train?
Better than no rail service at all. Pacers kept lines open.
The Patron Saint of Llandudno.
Thanks for uploading this after BusThrash privated all his actual bus videos including this one and left us with some video of his Jaguar.
A strange fella.
When I started at First back in 1999, we had National 2’s, Olympians, Lynx’s, Bristol VR’s (only three) and Atlanteans. 22 years later and I bet the majority of those would still be running on service now, whilst the modern crap served up would all be over the pits or sat in the yard with NFS stickers all over them.
I started a few years later and know exactly what you mean but the modern stuff is so much easier to drive. That box is just in front of the brake pedal on a VR, what's that all about? It's only when you drive one in service that you realise how little the driver was thought of in the design process.
How come poor old Olymnpians and Atlanteans don''t get apostrophes?
So, an engine cost more than a whole years wages? Damn