You can also add "Whatever you do, when it does eventually start do not floor the accelerator & rev the nuts out of the engine because it is cold & that is very bad for the engine indeed! Get it?!
I think Crosville did the right thing when they put Gardner 6HLX engines in their Nashers! (It helped Crosville get shut of those 'orible Seddon things!)
Looks like the diesel engines on these buses didn't have glow plugs to help them start from cold hence the long turn over of engine before it eventually fired & really was there any need to rev the guts out of the engine like that polluting the atmosphere?! Not good doing that to a cold engine, just asking for big trouble that is!
Great bus UK but your liveries are the pits. This one is horrid. Your early plain all over colours like poppy red and NBC green were the best, better with white upper. London Transport red was great also. Australia did better with their colour schemes and made these buses pop.
to me, the sound of a 510 is the one emotional trigger that takes me back to my childhood in the '70s
Me too.! 👍
Ive just got back from Meadowhall.drove over Winkobank and guess what??
After nearly 18 years the smoke cloud has almost gone ;-)
Whats missing is the driver being told "Whatever you do, don't bloody well stop it ! "
You can also add "Whatever you do, when it does eventually start do not floor the accelerator & rev the nuts out of the engine because it is cold & that is very bad for the engine indeed! Get it?!
That tooks its time to start. Loved when its started black smoke everywhere. leyland 510 engine great sound but thats about it.
Used to love the old "Clack-Clacks" as I used to call em'. Interesting that my childhood favourites (Lowlanders too!) were actually quite shite....
Amazed that leyland made them like this- didnt they do any testing at all?!
They tested the National a lot as a vehicle, but didn't appear to regard clag as a problem.
Our cold starter was UFG 47P
Jump me, oh jumpy jumperer!
Is that Blakey in the long coat? Hope they were holding their breath. No hi-vis in those days when men were men.
that national behind is that JBR 684T OR JBR 688T? both ex united 3084 and 3088
Morning has broken!!! first Natties coaxed into noisy smelly life, that starter motor must be red hot.
I think Crosville did the right thing when they put Gardner 6HLX engines in their Nashers!
(It helped Crosville get shut of those 'orible Seddon things!)
They take some time to start.
@jaggass bought out by Yorkshire Traction I think
What happened to south riding?
its alive
688T I think
Looks like the diesel engines on these buses didn't have glow plugs to help them start from cold hence the long turn over of engine before it eventually fired & really was there any need to rev the guts out of the engine like that polluting the atmosphere?! Not good doing that to a cold engine, just asking for big trouble that is!
I wouldn't want to be that fitter and get a face full of clag.
Great bus UK but your liveries are the pits. This one is horrid. Your early plain all over colours like poppy red and NBC green were the best, better with white upper. London Transport red was great also.
Australia did better with their colour schemes and made these buses pop.
God they were crap