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Post by ServerKing on Oct 11, 2019 10:50:50 GMT
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Post by snowman on Oct 11, 2019 11:52:12 GMT
Still unclear what the deal is, and no guarantee at this stage that new owner will continue the existing range Appears that Ryse Hydrogen Limited (of which Joseph Cyril-Edward Bamford is a person of significant control) is the buyer Both Wrightbus and Ryse Hydrogen are part of a consortium (called H2bus) planning to build upto 1000 hydrogen buses h2bus.eu/about.html |
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Post by ServerKing on Oct 11, 2019 12:06:01 GMT
Still unclear what the deal is, and no guarantee at this stage that new owner will continue the existing range Appears that Ryse Hydrogen Limited (of which Joseph Cyril-Edward Bamford is a person of significant control) is the buyer Both Wrightbus and Ryse Hydrogen are part of a consortium (called H2bus) planning to build upto 1000 hydrogen buses h2bus.eu/about.html just so long the story isn't hot air... or whatever hydrogen is   |
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Post by John tuthill on Oct 11, 2019 14:18:15 GMT
Still unclear what the deal is, and no guarantee at this stage that new owner will continue the existing range Appears that Ryse Hydrogen Limited (of which Joseph Cyril-Edward Bamford is a person of significant control) is the buyer Both Wrightbus and Ryse Hydrogen are part of a consortium (called H2bus) planning to build upto 1000 hydrogen buses h2bus.eu/about.html just so long the story isn't hot air... or whatever hydrogen is Lighter than air, and VERY combustable(Remember the Hindenburg) |
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Post by ServerKing on Oct 11, 2019 14:51:08 GMT
just so long the story isn't hot air... or whatever hydrogen is Lighter than air, and VERY combustable(Remember the Hindenburg) Like this deal then Hopefully JCB will bring better engines to the range, a styling house / team is needed (something attractive to take the fight to the ubiquitous E200), I don't know if it will be re-named as something else or just have a new parent company. New engine options would be great (remembering London United's CAT engined TA324 ) but so pleased for the workers. Banish the evil pastor who caused the collapse to the land of Fugitiveness (see Cain, Bible)  |
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Post by bottomless on Oct 12, 2019 11:02:57 GMT
I thought the CAT engined bus was TA346. It certainly sounded different to any other TA, especially when starting.
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Post by busaholic on Oct 12, 2019 13:55:24 GMT
... and all lived happily ever after. Not.
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Post by ServerKing on Oct 12, 2019 15:14:55 GMT
I thought the CAT engined bus was TA346. It certainly sounded different to any other TA, especially when starting. I knew it was one of them I was hoping for a ride on it on the 65 back in the day but it never happened.  Let's see what happens with the company going forward... hopefully it's not a "Sports Direct" kind of takeover where the new owners have no clue how to run things |
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Post by vjaska on Oct 12, 2019 15:38:20 GMT
I thought the CAT engined bus was TA346. It certainly sounded different to any other TA, especially when starting. Same with the provincial Stagecoach Volvo Olympian that also had a CAT engine, different in sound terms to a regular Volvo Olympian  www.youtube.com/watch?v=paveE8xKvTQ |
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Post by bottomless on Oct 13, 2019 23:49:06 GMT
I thought the CAT engined bus was TA346. It certainly sounded different to any other TA, especially when starting. I knew it was one of them I was hoping for a ride on it on the 65 back in the day but it never happened. Let's see what happens with the company going forward... hopefully it's not a "Sports Direct" kind of takeover where the new owners have no clue how to run things Shame you missed out. I think you would have enjoyed it as this bus was extremely quick, rumoured to have gone over 75 mph on motorway runs. |
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Post by M1104 on Oct 14, 2019 9:53:43 GMT
I knew it was one of them I was hoping for a ride on it on the 65 back in the day but it never happened. Let's see what happens with the company going forward... hopefully it's not a "Sports Direct" kind of takeover where the new owners have no clue how to run things Shame you missed out. I think you would have enjoyed it as this bus was extremely quick, rumoured to have gone over 75 mph on motorway runs. Unrestricted I believe the maximum speed would have been around 65 mph....and as it's a smaller engine to the Cummin units used in Tridents it would have been screaming that bit more at that speed. |
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