what i missed:
my early bus "life" if u call it would be dominated by atleantans,
Albion vikings (i affectionately called arrng arrng since they make
such sound), leyland vics, baco ones even. (they sure looked ugly),
volvo B57s, merc OFs (NZ hawke body) (nicknamed hong hong hong)
since they made suhc silly retarding sounds.
later came the scanias which i missed most of was their nice 4 gear
scanai gear. i remember my scania OACSs on 196 tended to hold the
third gear very long before blasting into 4th gear. now they use
sucky voiths.
another thing about the N113CRBs OACs were their irritating air-con
ringing sounds. ear piercing if u had a sensitive ear. but i liked
the sound since it was chracteristic of their thne fuji air-cons.
the air-con outlet i remeber looked very much like those air-con
outlets in your typipical office building air-con. main vent in the
centre with side vents forming a square.
also missed were the OTS bus tickers which i used to collect and
also the more recently the validators.
missed the nice bells they had..beep,,,hahhaha
missed the flexvision double deck buses (leyland atleantan DM body
version 2) regos range were 68xx and some 34xx. too bad my SBS6821
of 196 went smack into a flyover that time....that was a flexvision
bus btw .techincally the first air-con bus service wasnot 168. it u
counted the demonstrator of leyland national 2 air-con bus on 143
(SBS6820) that would count as my first air-con bus of SBS.
otherwise one cna settle with the STC svc 5's nissan UD air-con
buses in the late 60s whcih my parents enjoyed. (btw the STC
nissans went on svc STC18 first or so i heard)
ZYX
missing the old arngs arrngs
