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Mr. Linsky · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 5:33 pm Post subject: 'Interesting Height Comparison'

I happened to be riding down Wilshire Boulevard here in Los Angeles yesterday following an old English double decker site seeing bus (probably a Leyland - but Washie can correct me on that).

Most of the second deck was open with only the first couple of rows covered by the original closed body, and the colour of the bus was red (see reasonable facsimile below).

The coach was in the left lane ahead of me when along comes a Nabi 60BRT on the right which pulls up side by side with the DD at a traffic light.

What struck me was the fact that the 60BRT was almost the same height as the DD.

My conclusion was that either we're building single deckers higher than ever or the British in general are shorter people!

BTW; the temperature in the 'Mid Wilshire' area yesterday afternoon must have reached 95 degrees, and it sure looked like the idiots on the upper level were frying!

Mr. Linsky
"The Green Hornet"
Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica & Arverne, NY

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When you ride the Fifth Avenue coach that the Transit Museum puts on display (the model from the 1940's), you realize how the conductors must have stooped.
When I rode them, I was not yet a teen-ager. It's only in recent years that I noticed how low the ceilings were. Mom said that (during the 1920's), the conductor on the open-top bus around 110th Street would remind the people on top not to stand, the girders of the Ninth Avenue el being the problem.
Joe