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Kneeling on buses

23rd February 1980
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NATIONAL Bus Compan subsidiary Maidstone and Di: trict has placed in service Leyland National sing1( decker equipped with "kneeling facility".

The bus, which was cm verted in the company Maidstone central works, being operated on a speci Gillingham old-age pensionE service and is the result of co-operation between the bu company and the north Ker branch of the Disablement Ir come Group.

The driver can lower pres ure on the front nearside ai bellow to reduce the ste height by four inches, and safety device is incorporate. to prevent the bus bein. driven off without the press ure being restored.

The conversion is similar ti one already in use in Soutl Yorkshire but Maidstone aril District stress they have ru plans to equip all their Natio nals with the kneeling facia; and stress that this scheme i. purely an experiment.

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