Beginner's guide to sgbusforums

tvcnq SG

Im relatively new to this forums and I find that there are many bus lingo in this forums which may be hard to understand for a newcomer. I took quite some time to 'decipher' some of the phrases too. I started this thread so the more common phrases can be explained. Maybe this thread can be made sticky or sth so other newcomers can easily refer to this before it is buried into the mass of inactive threads after a few weeks?

Some of those I know

TS = Thread starter
SD = single deck
DD = double deck
SP = spare
NAC = non aircon
FAC = fully aircon
PAC = partially aircon
EDS = Electronic display for bus svc number at the front of buses, mainly on SMRT ones
JIS = Jurong Industrial svc
BIH = bus info hub (businfohub.com)
cameo = buses that appear on a route for a day to take over perm buses that may be under repair etc
rego = bus licence plate number
desto = the plastic plate with the bus svc number seen at the front/back of buses
cross-over/x-over = buses that serve more than one service every day
skyliner = ads that juts upwards from the side of buses

Some that I still dont really understand
CAC = converted aircon (?)
troll = spammer (?)
OAC
UD

Im not sure whether all these are correct. Can some senior members check and add other phrases. A short summary of the different bus models would be nice here too.

TWS4793 SG

CAC = Converted Air Con, buses that were originally non-airconditioned but were retrofitted with air conditioning. One such example is the SMRT Scania ELBO.

OAC = Original Air Con. Almost all buses are originally air-conditioned.

UD = It's just a company trademark of Nissan. We don't know abbreviation. Even Wikipedia does not mention the full term of the abbreviation. Source

Y_Shun SG

It will come when the new MODs come and they will do a new sticked thread.

Ferret SG

Thanks for sharing Very Happy

201911 SG

ah digged it out...
the guide posted by Tamago quite long ago here. the thread expired already. and some pix not available anymore. but still quite thorough.

off topic: i lurked in sg bus forums for abt a year to farmiliarise with all the terms before i finally signed up. so that won't say the wrong thing then get scolded... Embarassed

^tamago^ SG

u still remember me Embarassed

^tamago^ SG

actually quite a lot of better photos have come since it was first conceptualised in 2004, and i guess it'll be an community effort in having a bit of everyone's photo into the newcomer's guide. Laughing

n4l SG

The "UD" trademark, which originally stood for "Uniflow Diesel", taking its name from Nissan Diesel's successful Uniflow Scavenging Diesel engine, has been marketed to mean "Ultimate Dependability".

No lah. Wikipedia knows Laughing .

How can Wikipedia not know anything? Very Happy

tvcnq SG

Wow. Thats so detailed. I believe we should resurrect the thread for the benefit of newcomers like me.

kenn3th SG

where got pac(partially air con) buses de Laughing

Y_Shun SG

Its indeed detailed...
spent me quite a long time reading it!

SBS1985C SG

Hippo Bus Laughing

Oki lar its Partially air con service. Embarassed

SBS3625D SG

Dude, I think you came when a lot of sniping occured. Laughing But I can tell you, that if you make it be known that you are not sure and want to learn, you won't get scolded one, don't worry.

I muddled my way through last time, but thanks to all the laojiao, I no longer know nuts although there's still alot I'm not sure of.

ZYX2005 SG

Originally posted by n4l:

The "UD" trademark, which originally stood for [b]"Uniflow Diesel", taking its name from Nissan Diesel's successful Uniflow Scavenging Diesel engine, has been marketed to mean "Ultimate Dependability".

No lah. Wikipedia knows Laughing .

How can Wikipedia not know anything? Very Happy [/b]

confirm. i know UD stand for uniflow Diesel.

ZYX

ZYX2005 SG

aiayh kenneth proper answer

partial Air-con bus is a 90s catch phrase. then they used it to describe a bus service.

a bus service is called partial air-con service if half its fleet is air-con bus and other half is non air-con bus. a common situation in 90s.

today still got partial air-con services

like bus 93, 74 or 151.

the short form is PAC.

ZYX

ZYX2005 SG

CAC: Converted Air-con

this one use first used in the late 80s when SBS converted non air-con leyland Victories to air-con buses. in Essence u can say they "mod" the bus in race car lingo if u want.

today some of he Scania are CAC. so are some mark 2s. on the SMRT side many merc are CAC. even the ex CSS UD many are CAC.

OAC - original air-con

essentially coined in 2000 . then in 1989 Scanias came as non air-con and air-con variants. in 2000, SBS converted some NAC Scania to Air-con bus. so to differentiate the CAC scania,, the orginal air-con scania was called.

ZYX

ZYX2005 SG

new one

KUB

personally the buses aint that cuddly n cute but nevertheless most of the folks have started using this 'KUB"

KUB will refer to any K series engined Scania in Singapore. More importantly when discussing on SBS buses, KUB will automatically mean a Scania k230UB bus.

KUB comes from the first and last two letters of the Scania k230Ub bus model name.

However if SBS decides to bring in K series double deck bus then i dunno leow

lols

meanwhile the "LUB" coined in 1999 by erm..hee me, refers to Singapore's only Scania L94UB SBS2888T.

ZYX

SBS1985C SG

Found this tech guide with google.

http://forums.hardwarezone.com/printthread.php?t=1652993

Has the rego range of each models and the number of buses in the fleet.
All in one page.

Enjoy.

ZYX2005 SG

Newcomers guide the old thread. Tamago's newcomers guide thread here. read to understand tough lingo

[http://buses.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=112842&page=0

^tamago^ SG

thanks ZYX. Smile