Vintage Southern Vectis green goddess hurtles past Hatfield Peverel on the A12

Vintage Southern Vectis green goddess hurtles past Hatfield Peverel on the A12

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One of the most-travelled members, the double decker Bristol Lodekka, of the Isle of Wight Bus Museum collection, is the former Southern Vectis LD6G. I filmed the old girl chugging up the A12 incline at Hatfield Peverel, just after leaving the Chelmsford by-pass and heading in a northerly direction towards Colchester and East Anglia. She was wearing Number 22 route and an Isle of Wight destination in a bid to puzzle motorists and drive anoraks wild. According to Wikipedia The Bristol Lodekka was a low-height double-decker bus built by Bristol Commercial Vehicles in England. It was the first production bus design to have no step up from the passenger entrance throughout the lower deck, although Gilford and Leyland Motors had produced low floor buses in the 1930s, these did not enter production.[2] The point of its design and introduction was to end the uncomfortable and inconvenient Lowbridge double-deck bus layout, replacing it by lowering the chassis frame and integrating it with the body, and fitting a drop-centre rear axle, so that there were no steps from the rear entrance platform to the front of the passenger gangway, itself sunk about 10 cm (6 inches) below the seating platforms on the LDX, LD and first five LDLs. A full flat floor was developed on the last LDL, then used on the LDS and the F series Lodekkas. Bristol Commercial Vehicles, Eastern Coach Works and some of their employees obtained a number of patents relating to the design.[2] Bristol manufactured over 5,200 Lodekkas from 1949 to 1968, as a standard double-deck vehicle for the UK state-owned bus sector. With all examples bodied by Eastern Coach Works in Lowestoft, they have a traditional half-cab design and a lower floor level allowing a low overall height. The earlier LD-series and the later FL and FS had a rear platform, but the FSF and FLF had a front entrance. Most were powered by 5 or 6-cylinder Gardner engines, with fewer having a Bristol or Leyland power unit. With the arrival of more modern "OMO" or one person operated buses, such as the Leyland Atlantean and Bristol VRT (the Lodekka's successor), many Lodekkas found themselves relegated to driver training duties. Lodekka users in the UK included: Brighton Hove & District, Bristol Omnibus, Crosville, Cumberland, Eastern Counties, Eastern National, Hants & Dorset, Lincolnshire Road Car, Scottish Omnibuses, Southern Vectis, Luton & District, Thames Valley & Aldershot, United, United Counties, West Yorkshire Roadcar Co, Western National, Central SMT and Wilts & Dorset. Whilst no Lodekkas were bought by any London based companies, they often worked into the capital on services operated by Thames Valley and Eastern National. West Yorkshire Road Car Company had an early Lodekka, originally fleet number 822 but renumbered DX1 under the April 1954 renumbering scheme, which operated in the Harrogate area and lacked the distinctively stylish fairing of the production models. This was displayed at the Festival of Britain (South Bank Exhibition) in 1951. The Bristol Lodekka was also manufactured by Dennis under licence, and was sold as the Dennis Loline. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Lodekka

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