M1 Double Decker Bus

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Somebody explain this for me please lol

[Cait Sith]

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Somebody explain this for me please lol

 

I'm unsure, but I think the MTA had a few double decker buses running around waaaay back then.

[MTR Admiralty]

I'm unsure, but I think the MTA had a few double decker buses running around waaaay back then.

They did, I think back in the 70s. But there were problems concering height clearance, I think.

[Gotham Bus Co]

Somebody explain this for me please lol

 

There were 8 of those buses, numbered D1-D8, given to NYC in 1976 as a gift from the British government. D1-D4 were painted in "two-tone blue"while D5-D8 were red/white/blue. There were initially assigned to the 132nd Street Depot for the M4 and M5. At the time, I lived along Riverside Drive and rode them on the M5 to and from junior high school (which gives a sense of my age!).

 

Unfortunately, they quickly fell into disrepair because the Irish-born maintainers refused to touch British-made buses. They were moved to 146th Street Depot and used exclusively on the M1.

 

After a few years, the buses were sold to Grey Line of San Francisco.

[KeystoneRegional]

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[St Louis Car 09]

There were 8 of those buses, numbered D1-D8, given to NYC in 1976 as a gift from the British government. D1-D4 were painted in "two-tone blue"while D5-D8 were red/white/blue. There were initially assigned to the 132nd Street Depot for the M4 and M5. At the time, I lived along Riverside Drive and rode them on the M5 to and from junior high school (which gives a sense of my age!).

 

Unfortunately, they quickly fell into disrepair because the Irish-born maintainers refused to touch British-made buses. They were moved to 146th Street Depot and used exclusively on the M1.

 

After a few years, the buses were sold to Grey Line of San Francisco.

wow the irish and british really to their feud to that level?

[Princelex]

My mom told me that days after I was born, we rode one of these to see my Grandmother when she worked in Lower Manhattan. Mom told me that this was my very first bus ride. What a way to start! LOL

[St Louis Car 09]

wow.union square look grimy.......Classic.:tup:

[Gotham Bus Co]

wow the irish and british really to their feud to that level?

 

At least the Irish-Americans did. Click here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles) to learn why.

 

This line of discussion is in danger of going w-a-a-a-y off-topic, so from here on we should comment only on the double-decker buses themselves.

[The TransitMan]

I also remember that these buses were not that good going down 5th Av as they were knocking tree branches off the trees and knocking into traffic lights.

[traildriver]

Way back in the Fifth Avenue Coach days, they had plenty of double deckers running (built by GM - Yellow Coach Division). There is a survivor in the TA's museum fleet. They are probably a bit lower than the Leylands. If you were 6 feet tall, you had to duck your head a bit inside.

If I recall, they ran up until the early 1950's.

[KNIGHTRIDER3:16]

Wow this is A rare catch if I've ever seen

I never knew these were even around

truly great classic but what other routes or boroughs did they serve?