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THE 'WOLVES' ARE RUNNING

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12th November 1965

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Page 80, 12th November 1965 — THE 'WOLVES' ARE RUNNING

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THERE can be no doubt that quite a stir was created in central London this week when (with apologies to John Masefield) the wolves were running—the "wolves" being the new Leyland Atlanteans introduced by London Transport on route 24. Apart from this unfortunate tendency to hunt in packs, the first front-entrance double-deckers to be introduced into central London on any large scale got off to quite a smooth start. Strangely enough for is it really so strange?) the public took to the new vehicles as well as in any provincial town where this type of bus was introduced for the first time and on the second day of operation (Monday) no passengers attempted to get on or off the back of the buses on which I rode. Judging by expressions and comments from passengers, the reaction was favourable.

However, undoubtedly the most significant fact I noticed on two trips was the complete absence of bell ringing on the part of the passengers, despite the normal practice in London 'where passengers wishing to alight at "request" stops signal the driver themselves. On these new buses there is, of course, no need to do this as the driver can see when passen

c30 gers are awaiting to alight; similarly I rarely heard a starting signal. Passenger boarding and alighting was obviously under the control of the driver, which is one of the great advantages of the frontentrance rear-engined bus.

I was rather surprised at the number of people in the street who stared at the new vehicles, despite the fact that it was after dark. Perhaps it was partly because the buses did come along in bunches and also because they were rather noisy, although no more so than a Leylandengined Routemaster which chased one convoy of Atlanteans. In fairness to London Transport some time must be allowed for crew " familiarization " which might help to obviate this bunching, although it was an impressive sight to see five XAs lined up at the Pimlico terminus together. FKM

0.680 Engines in LTB The 50

Leyland Atlantean double-deckers being introduced by London Transport are fitted with Leyland 0.680 engines. not 0.600 engines as inadvertently stated last week. The engines are derated to produce 130 b.h.p. at 1.800 E.o.m.