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. TB Fleetlines Now
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Running By DEREK MOSES an now be recorded that London Transport has operated. normal passenger service, its first rear-engined, frontnce, double-deck buses. On Wednesday. as forecast in ::ointnercial Motor last week. eight Daimler Fleetlines were Juced in place of RTs on country bus service 424 (East aead to Reigate). Travelling on the 10.18 from Reigate to Grinstead on the first day turned out to be an interesting ience.
e bus left Reigate with a good bottom-deck load and six ngers on top. and just about 6 min, behind schedule. at very acute left-hand turns were encountered on this which kept the driver very busy and these, together with works in awkward places, caused slight further delays so Ne arrived at Station Road, East Grinstead, about 10 min. only to be turned off the bus for no apparent reason. replacement bus had been brought from East Grinstead c, but it soon became evident that there was no driver to the bus; the previous crew had gone off for a break. :vet% a very willing young conductor was waiting in vain, happened.
.er a prolonged interval, during which inspector; milled id and all the intending passengers for the centre of Grinstead got off and walked. the next bus on the service :d and we were able to continue (with the same crew that brought us from Reigate, incidentally), arriving at the Quarry Estate at 12.20 instead of 11.43 or even 12.13, the this second bus was due!
was interesting to know that, although the bottom deck
■ usy throughout the journey, never more than about seven c ascended to the top deck, This would seem to strengthen ; argument for using the buses as one-man vehicles with ip deck closed off outside peak periods-although had this
been done, standing passengers would have been carried both on the way into East Crinstead and from here to the estate.
Reaction from the driver was that the overhang was a little awkward at first and the brakes were fierce, although the steering was good on the first of three Fleetlines he had driven that day. And the young conductor who could not find a mate to drive his substitute bus was very enthusiastic about them. The new buses were ideal, he thought_ and the drivers would soon get used to ihem,