Tuercas viejas
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They are most likely hybrids The powerpack is Cummins and the engines no doubt will be built in Daventry at Cummins UK .MB engines part of the German deal i wonder, unless these new buses are hybrids.
This will mean they get UK/EU certification whereas Cummins in the US gets Fed & Calif certifications.
The powerpack is not unlike many high capacity buses already in proven service in the US with companies like Gillig Bus of Hayward Ca.
A Closer Look at GILLIG, Cummins Battery Electric Bus Partnership
Another step on a long journey between two of the industry’s biggest stalwarts: GILLIG and Cummins
www.gillig.com
I was seconded to this company when I worked for Leyland Bus, and Gillig was buying the Leyland U66 underframe & suspension systems for their Phantom bus range.
I was recently recalling this, as I was a regular passenger on TWA leaving London at 12 noon out of LHR to JFK on Sundays.
As a side bar !
Often I would be greeted at the jetway by this hot shapely chick of a flight attendant with the "big hair " of that era . She used to do JFK LHR Tel Aviv or New Delhi run.
(Sounds corny but it was love at first sight)
I never dared to ask her for a date thought, since I was alway flying on to SFO, or down to South America way, Argentina Uruguay Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, all with TWA. Great airline & always got you a connection.
About 10 years on and doing something quite different, I ran into her in Denver . (what at a coincidence)
Got married 6 weeks later, and we have been together for 25 years now, our anniversary coming up on July 13th.
Wife, (from Sandpoint Idaho) business partner and mother of our 6 kids.
I suppose thank you TWA, now long forgotten like Leyland Trucks & Buses that was once upon a time a big foreign revenue earner for the UK.
Now it fiddles with everyone's money.
Tuercas viejas
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