Bus Road Test (1957)
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- Опубліковано 12 кві 2014
- Aldenham, Hertfordshire.
At London Transport works at Aldenham, buses are subjected to various safety tests before being allowed to streets. Two men are seen lifting sandbags and placing them on seats to simulate the busload of passengers. Bus is then tested for stability. Two rubber buffers are placed at one side of the bus (in case it fails the test and tips over). Then the bus is tilted by a hydraulic ram (great pressure is applied) to check how stable it is. Man operating a rig is foreman Charlie Taylor who's been working on bus maintenance since 1927.
Several shots of the bus being tilted slowly to one side - it looks as if it will turn over. C/U shot of the distance between rubber buffer and bus demonstrates that bus has past stability test.
At Chiswick skid patch, a huge polygon is showered with water (buses are showered too) to get slippery. Buses are then recklessly driven - lots of breaking and skidding - to check a degree of control. Scary watch.
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Drifting on a doubledecker is a true gangsta stuff
Skidding*
Leonaяdo DiCapяio guess what they actually MADE A DOUBLE DECKER BUS DRIFT just a newer model
We have initiated a loss of traction and we are now counter steering it by turning the wheel the opposite way.
OR
DOING A PHAT SKIDDA FOR THE BOIS 🤙🤙
Please enter a name drifting* did he stutter I don’t think so
Great scene in the film of On the Buses of Stan doing it.
What a surprising recommendation! 😁
Plot twist: UA-cam algorithm is broken so bad they give you everything
Are you here because you watched The Backyard Scientist?
Yip
Right
lol
Should change wider rims and tyre, make sure it grips when it drift.
Yes, and a carbon fiber widebody kit.
And a V6 turbocharged engine
*make that V12
@@personstandingup make that a w16
@@personstandingup Nah, 2JZ-GTE is fine already
I just noticed the "Please shop between 10 and 4" and the "Please avoid rush hour" on the front
Then what?
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@@OfficialWRX amen brother, keep preaching the Gospel
There was a image of this video in my physics book for topic friction 😂and I cam here to see if it was real u know 😂
That was some good quality footage from 1957
I know, and in colour. There were black and white movies into the 70s. Unless this is a digital colour job
They used reconstructing computer algorithm that flip the black and white pixels over to their colourful side
@@obviouslytwo4u no.
It was filmed to colour tape and scanned into digital format.
B/W tape does not contain the necessary crystals to possess colour.
Film beats Tape
👑Right? 🤣👑
2:27 that would be called a "drift" in the modern era
Ok boomer
*dorifto
BMW DRIVERS THINKS THEY ARE RARE BUT THAT MAN IS COOL AF
DEJA VU I HAVE BEEN IN THIS PLACE BEFORE
No, it's an uncontrolled skid. Drifting implies it's a controlled skid.
A time when “made in Britain” ensured quality,safety and a long lasting life
@@artimmy1 😂
Same with made in the USA. Well were getting there a little
What happens now? I thought it still the same in terms of bicycle 🚲?
@Aloha Snackbar what like the Jaguar e type,Mini Cooper and Land Rovers?
@@user-ih6vs3eg3o Slovakia's finest.
This video from 1957 has better resolution than ufo shots shooted these days
Because the camera is set up on a tripod to film with multiple takes in broad daylight.
@@johnmartinez7440 r/woosh
Shooted... lol.
@@AverageReviewsYT lol
Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan.
Still some of these buses running in srilanka..
yeah lol
Also Mumbai
@@mart4144 "built like tanks" is meant to say built like they never break. Cars and other machines nowadays are prone to break more easily and be replaced rather than being repaired like they used to do back in the days. It has nothing to do with builing actual tanks in the UK and Engeland.
I tried spelling your username and I think I summoned the ancient one.
These are still used for special occasions, there are loads of these preserved
Back when engineers wore ties and a suit to work on buses.
Back when engineers where paid accordingly.
I noticed that too. Notice also how clean and clutterless everything was.
*Deja vu!*
Hey, there was no tinder back then. Now you dont have to look good to get laid. Theres always a ho round the block.
@Aloha Snackbar nah in old times. engineers are well respected and highly paid. Nowdays the wages couldn't even buy a house😅.
Pro drifter: i can drift a modified ford focus
Double deck bus driver: hold my tea
Phonky music blasting inside the bus
Tea my good man, "hold my tea". A bus driver of any acclaim is not going to be seen drinking _beer_ like a commoner
Ford focuses are front wheel drive, they cant drift.
@@ao8271 Front wheel drive can drift
@@ao8271 that is what the hand brake is for ya noob. Front wheel drive cars can drift, speaking from personal experience.
I love how they just give some details "for the technically minded". Not at all patronising like most documentaries and TV shows today
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@@OfficialWRX bro stop spamming Jesse stuff this is a bus safety vid
My Dad was a bus driver in the early 1950"s driving for Brighton, Hove and District.
In those days you got fined if you ran early or late - heavy traffic was no excuse!
In one bad winter he couldn't get up a hill and the bus slid back on the ice and over a main road, no one was hurt but the conductor chickened out and jumped off the Bus!
One time he swerved to avoid a car driving on the wrong side of the road and mounted the pavement cracking two paving slabs, he got fined £2 for this and wasn't happy -he told the court judge next time he would let the accident happen rather than try and avoid it!
Nevertheless he got a diploma for good driving for 2 years out of the three working for the local Bus company (I still have these along with his drivers badge)..
Who remembers pushchairs? (no "Buggies" in those days), when the bus came the Mums would take the kid out, fold the pushchair up and the conductor would take them and store them under the stairs. Plus when you got a bit older, you could swing on the pole ...!
Brilliant Buses!
And the reason it doesn't happen today is the bus companies are afraid of being sued for back injuries by their staff
Your dad sounded like a brilliant driver! Good on him! 😊
Monty Zumazoom fantastic insight ! Thanks.
Cool story bro.....
Say hello to your dad I think I remember him, he was looking very specific, he was driving bus
Priceless...... “for those of you who are technically minded” 😂
Well I am quite technically minded and "1 Tonne of pressure" means nothing in this context it would depend on the size of the hydraulic cylinder.
@PlebzOr Blapparapp hurr durr no one is smart today, we dum... In an age where being a nerd is cool and where education channels have millions of subscribers, you tell me that no one is technically minded? Im sure there is a name for what you did there, I just don't know it. Maybe gatekeeping?
@PlebzOr Blapparapp ok boomer
PlebzOr Blapparapp On UA-cam everyone is a smart(ass). Endless discussions involving corrections upon corrections. “Actually..”
@PlebzOr Blapparapp Actually this applies to WAY more people these days in the data age. More educated people are around than ever with even uneducated people having access to excellent free learning materials right here on YT and loads of other places.
We're much smarter as a whole these days
1:06 - "The rig is operated by foreman Charlie Taylor, who's been working on bus maintenance since 1927..."
"Since 1927". Wow, it's 2021 as I write this. That is nearly 100 years ago. What a bygone era.
Interesting how relative time is for everything. He had been doing that for 30 years as at 1957. This comment being written in 2021 would be equivalent to saying he had been doing it since 1991.
Back in the days when a career was a career for life (or at least until retirement age).
Not going to lie, this is the coolest thing I've seen in a while.
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This is from 1957 and looks way better than security cameras nowadays.
I don't know why i like to watch this kind of videos in the morning.
Am I the only one who loves these old fashion videos. I watched one about California highway patrol and it was nostalgic for some reason.
I don't think so. This video has millions of views and this channel has millions of subscribers.
Yeah I don’t know why but things like these are also weirdly nostalgic to me
@@TheyForcedMyHandLE Perfect response lol
For anyone wondering, this still applies to all British busses today
We make things in this country any more?
@WilliamSmith-mx6ze Wright bus and Alexander and a few other uk bus builders still make buses
If a bus did tilt like that going around the leaning tower of piza, then from the buses perspective it would just look like a normal tower.
The Tower of Pisa is 4°, this test is 28°.
@@johnmartinez7440 it's a joke bro..
This is honestly really funny xD
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@@OfficialWRX before I do all that, I just have one question.. As God is said to be the all-powerful creator of everything, could God create an object that's so heavy that even God himself wouldn't be able to lift it?
Imaging getting to drift double decker buses for a living
*Sliding*
A video from the 1950s has a better quality camera than most security cameras
Fr tho
Security cameras record 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
For one Full HD camera it's over 277 GB of data. Where would you keep 13,86 TB of data from 50 cameras? 55,44 TB if you want to have whole month recorded.
50 cameras means you don't have big space to cover, so you don't have big budget either.
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Wooosh
Have a good day
@@pain7873 yep
@@sill5876 make it delete automatically the last 12 hours if nothing happened ez
I love the overly cheerful music in the background
His voice with the video is so satisfying...i watch this video while having food.⛅
“Controlled skid” sounds like drifting to me
No it doesn't. Skidding and drifting are both different.
The sheer precision of Engineering more than 60 years ago is just mind blowing. They don't even use Computer. Just Math and Pencil on paper.
Don't forget the slide rule. Obtains the results of most engineering calculations to a meaningful degree of accuracy faster than a computer.
Finally something worth watching in the recommended. The content, the music, what a great video, this is gold
The camera quality is better than most UFO , ghost sightings and bank cameras
That's because 1. it was day and 2. because enough time was given to the camera to focus, without anything distracting the focus.
@@arshad4695 woosh him pls
@@nativeafroeurasian r/woosh
Is the woosh to get me to delete my comment? (I got the joke though and liked it and I'm willing to delete the comment (and this one) if you want me to) :)
@@nativeafroeurasian hi,you're woosh is now being processed
I watched this a long time ago. The algorithm has brought me back
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Old busses like these are just beautiful
Good to know that Charlie Taylor is there to make sure everything goes smoothly.
*I really love this retro voice. There are no low and high frequencies. Only high midrange frequencies. It sounds really good. So in all retro videos. I just love it.*
Put this in my “something that we don’t really sure that we need” playlist
Is your English okay, buddy?😂😂
Surprising how good the cam quality is😎😂
I love that sounds, that voice, that music, that... EVERYTHING
Did anyone ever manage to flip one of these busses?
I'd even consider looking at rigged busses for stunts and the like.
As a result of being hit by a Fire truck , a Routemaster bus turned on its side in W. LONDON . Luckily nobody was injured , our buses had just been fitted with radios and l had to send a " Code Red " to L.T. Contol .
@@williamcarrington3474
Atleast the emergency services were on scene
Here's one from 1957 (poor quality images tho'). A friend of mine was going to school on the bus! www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/nuneaton-bus-overturns
Bento, there are two films in which double decker buses have been flipped onto their side. One is called 'Intermission' which is an Irish film from 2003. An Irish stunt driver performed that stunt by tilting the bus up a ramp. Another movie is 'Stratton' - there is a scene there in which an English stunt driver flips a bus using explosive pistons coming out of the bottom of the bus - usually these pistons are sections of tree logs or metal cannisters forced downstairs from the bottom of a stunt vehicle. The bus in 'Stratton' landed on the passenger side which is of course safer than the driver's side but I believe the bus in 'Intermission' lands on the driver's side.
I'm sure they would. Like on that skidpad test if they were sideways and hit dry pavement that would do it.
I am an American and I love watching this UA-cam channel!
@M A What a fascinating response. Please elaborate.
From Neptune,love this video
That man is drifting a bus 😂🔥
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Matthew 0512 No offense but are you deaf? The narrator (or whoever it is) said uncontrolled skid
@@florjanbrudar692 my guy chill its not meant to be taken seriously
I feel like these films were made for us in the future to show life back then
Love the enthusiasm
This video from 1957 is in better quality than most of the ufo videos
I enjoy watching all about the things that you show and say and show what goes on with them as it tells us what we travel on and the type of build thanks
Absolutely great news i am sure every one will be over the moon to see you back.Keep up the good Work
I really like old reporting style
There is always a distinctive way these reporters sound and talk from which you can tell that it's an older piece of recording. And quite frankly I find it really entertaining. Modern reporting often bothers me, not particulary content wise, but in the way they present it.
Can't exactly pin down why. I guess it's just a preference. :3
It’s usually referred to as ‘BBC English’. Very well spoken, generally without a regional accent.
Now a dream for modern day London bus operators.
Is it? Why? (Sincerely curious)
Yeah why
Amazing to see how nice these buses looked when new, in terms of paint and quality
Thank you for the beautiful video.
That bus driver at the end looked at the camera and we all no what he was thinking "I am the original drift king gangsta"
" yeah my job is drifting double decker busses, what about you?"
Best tinder bio
Actually, all drivers had to do that. Hire me.
@@Dekko-chan replied to the wrong comment or am i missing something?
Joep You mean unconrtolled skid?
This is one of the best recommendations i’ve ever had. ty UA-cam :)
2:26 when you're a bus driver and the deja vu music kicks in
Gas gas gas 😂😂😂
Did you just say "deja vu music" instead of anything else? 🤣🤣🤣
@@LjCaples thats what i could think of.
@@El_Gallo_Rodrig.z lmao. It's eurobeat (forgot exact name of song) from Initial D.
@@LjCaples i didn't know the name so i put deja but thanks for telling me
Love the 'Please Shop between 10am-4pm' yea right!
I don't understand the purpose of that exhortation. Why would they care when you used the bus
@@Muonium1 Probably an attempt to get those pesky housewives from shopping during rush hour.
That makes sense.
Ye lemme shop while I'm at work lols
@@Muonium1 because it would be full of commuters before and after those hours.
Unbelievable video quality for 1957. Is it recreated or restored? It must have been shot on film and the film retained the color till now? Easily beats many HD videos of today.
Indeed, they were shot in high-definition colour film which has stood the test of time.Worth looking at the 1960s series ' Look At Life ' ( also on UA-cam which was the same quality ).
Video did not exist yet.
Mikey McMikeFace video was available in 1910 if not earlier
@@jacewinfrey3045 Can you give me two independent sources to verify that?
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 the Nipov disk was patented in 1884
Superb camera quality or high quality lens used in the filming. Best ever in fact.
This is what all recommendations should be like
This is the most British thing I have ever seen.
The most I’ve seen is a comment section arguing about trains.
@@beanman6684 Wow... British trains?
@@florjanbrudar692 indeed.
Cool! I remember seeing a picture of this in a book when i was a kid. Fun to see it in action.
Same here!
I've gone to LegoLand and got a lego set.
@@LoopyChicken what?
@@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug there's a lego set for the "London Bus" took me about 14 hours to build.
@@LoopyChicken oh. I though it was a complete non sequitur.. (if you said "a lego set of this" it might have been clearer to me)
Come to think about it, I did actually also build several tilt tests and tested my Lego cars on it inspired by this when I was younger. Especially when I started with Technics and it was possible to use springs and larger wheels, and I also added coins in the bottom to lower the centre of mass. Lots of fun
I never truly would’ve thought testing a double decker bus would be so interesting
The camera quality in 1957 was better than the nowadays security cameras
"...two tonnes of sand bags strapped to the upper deck to represent thirty ten stone passengers..." You'd probably have to double that weight now, given the U.K.'s obesity crisis.
I like how he's pro drifting that thing at the end
It's called skidding
Wow , thank you UA-cam for recommending this
Man's just ripping skids in a double decker
I remember seeing something similar at the Coventry Transport Museum like a decade ago. Jeez I haven't been in a long time.
We will meet in another Legendary video 😊
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Bravo! I was squinting in a quest to see the wires holding the bus down when it drove off!
Time changing, and this old bus test so cool
I was thinking about this video today and it showed up in my recommended 😳
The skid test was just an excuse to muck around whilst doing work
Would suit me 😁.
Daniel Playfair Is that even true?
this video has a better quality than a lot of videos recorded nowadays
I can’t over the fact that the video quality is better than a show from 2005
It's shot on 35mm film , the same as movies
I was surprised that after the test it immediately drove away. I didn't realize someone was in there for the test.
2:20 “quick visit the the skid pad”
Literally everyone watching that bus whip it around: “yooooooo”
1957 busses are really safe already. Imagine modern busses.
I love these type of videos with the old voice talk over with the songs mixed
Idk why this is in my recommendation but cool
U r beautiful
Simp
Overused comment
This clip of the bus, RTL286. at Aldenham Overhaul Works shows the vehicle in absolutely beautiful condition. But then you'd know that London Transport set a high standard in those days. The organisation really looked after their buses then, they had their own craftsmen and engineers to maintain the buses to the highest standards. This is a Leyland RT, though a beautiful bus, was not universally popular with the drivers due to heavier steering than an AEC RT bus. Great stuff all the same.
The RT and the RM are the best.
AEC made such a greats machines
@@gustavochinchilla4324 You are exactly right, mate. The RT and RM are the best. As for the RM, the AEC engine in that bus type is better than the Leyland 0.600 engine installed in it, even though the Leyland engine wasn't bad itself.
@@christopherdalton9171 AEC was quieter and smoother but the Leyland sounded very beefier.
@@jamesfrench7299 With the Routemaster buses, their AEC engines had a roar that combined with their otherwise sweet tone, which made for a marvellous sound, and the Leyland engine had a more throatier roar. Both the RTs AEC and Leyland engines sounded pretty similar to one another, one may tell the slight difference between the two types of RT buses, whereas with RMs one can easily distinguish between the two engines types from AEC and Leyland.
@@christopherdalton9171 really? Maybe they had more divergent exhaust systems as the respective engines of AEC and Leyland were evolutions of the RT and RTL motors.
I actually like recomendations like these
I was expecting a bus test video... Thnks youtube u fullfill my expectations.
beautiful!!
When i was a kid i had one of this on a Toy version 🥰
Good bless us, we were selected for this recommendation.
The quality of the video is awesome
That’s actually really impressive, as someone who has never even seen a double decker bus in my life. It’s good to know I’d be safe in one if I ever do find the chance.
Fascinating :)
Yoru comment is so old
@@T1Dotty Duh... so why reply to it?
Amazing quality!!
This channel is amazing 👏
Chinal
After 6 years UA-cam recommended to me 😂💕
Unfunny, overused comment.
Its literally after 60 years
UA-cam recommendation is doing its job!👌
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@@OfficialWRX WTF?
Excellent voice over talent.
Interesting test. I saw a old double decker in rusty brown color on the interstate in Iowa few months ago. Probably bought it and planned to restore it.
Love these iconic busses.
I love how they measure degrees
I remember seeing this when I was a little boy. Recalling my dad going "wow! 34 deg.!" I didn't understand what that was at that age, but if my dad was impressed, then so was I. 👍
Best video I've seen in dayssss
2:29 BEST DRIFT I'VE EVER SEEN
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It's a skid, not a drift
1:54 It has 2 diffrent tires at the front :)
yea looks like one has more wear and one has lest
@@mulex8758 Noo, I think it's totally diffrent tread pattern
@@thim0n oh i see ok
I love this kind of videos 😁
An unexpected but appreciated recommendation