It seems this produced a more stable bus, notably Barton Transport had an initial tilt-test failure when they, in 1957, first re-fitted a 7ft 6in (2. By the way everyone, Caroline Lowbridge had deleted her Twitter account when I looked only 18mins after the article had gone up. I'm not an expert on the VR, but I always understood it came in two different heights, 'highbridge' at 14'6 and 'lowbridge' at 13'8, these being the two heights which would attract full Bus Grant from the Dept of Transport. She said: “That BBC article about trans people is disgusting, I won’t share it as I don’t want to promote it.

Leyland, 6–cylinder, petrol (until 1939) or direct-injection diesel from 1933, standard by 1938, see text. He was involved in the design of London General's B-Type bus, under Frank Searle and then George Green. It was on stream by 1921, and most Lions and many Lionesses had been bodied there; a pre-Rackham feature was that Leyland Motors would also license the designs to other coachworks, but would take to law those building "pirated" Leyland designs.You're right on VRs and they had ultra low height, low height and highbridge version with those heights on ECW bodies. A total of 125 were built between 1948 and 1950, with Bolton Corporation taking 100 with Leyland bodies, and Bury Corporation the remaining 25 with Weymann bodies. But if you find that when dating, you are writing off entire groups of people, like people of colour, fat people, disabled people or trans people, then it's worth considering how societal prejudices may have shaped your attractions.

If that is so, these were the only Titans built on the line at Leyland with other than the six-cylinder engines, although a number of fleets, particularly in the Tilling Group, were, by the late 1930s, re-fitting petrol-powered Titans during overhaul with five-cylinder Gardner 5LW diesel units. The Fothergill family were a family of English ironmasters, founded by Richard Fothergill I (1758–1821), whose business interests were in South Wales.

With the combined effect of both these height reduction techniques, the height of the vehicle is 12ft 5in (3. In 1941, LPTB were allocated ten 'unfrozen' TD7 Titans (STD 101-11), which received early Ministry of Supply Utility Style bodies by Park Royal Vehicles. Further OPD2 variants were added by 1954/5, retaining 17ft 6in wheelbases for 27ft 6in bodies, 8ft width and air brakes. This is a play on the idea of a ‘glass ceiling’ though the cotton in question is the underwear of lesbian women. Although the tramcar was in general a durable vehicle and capable of much re-engineering, standards varied and by 1925 some networks were thoroughly worn out.