Ex SBST Mercedes Benz O405 WA gets a new life???
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thanks for all your photos! Its good to know that our former public buses are still alive and given a new life in other countries! too bad the wonderful scania crb buses were not given such opportunities.
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When MB O405s were in Sg. How many speed in gearbox?
In zf gear button it has 123NR ,But I listened engine sound. It has more 3 speed.
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Originally posted by CQM275:
When MB O405s were in Sg. How many speed in gearbox?
In zf gear button it has 123NR ,But I listened engine sound. It has more 3 speed.
Those with 123NR have Merc W3E 110/2.2R gearboxes, the ZFs ones (only a few) have 123DNR.
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Any Voithed ones?
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Originally posted by vicamour:
Can be found in Australia too for the older Mercedes Buses.
Ah, the venerable O305 SDs. Many of them were sold to private coach operators after retiring from route service. -
Originally posted by iveco:
Ah, the venerable O305 SDs. Many of them were sold to private coach operators after retiring from route service.
But we do not have Mercedes Benz O305 single decks last time. Only double decks.
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Originally posted by SBS3688Y:
thanks for all your photos! Its good to know that our former public buses are still alive and given a new life in other countries! too bad the wonderful scania crb buses were not given such opportunities.
The Scania N113s should have been preserved at all costs, IMO.
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Ex-SBS plate "SBS181L" in 538-21
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Originally posted by iveco:
The Scania N113s should have been preserved at all costs, IMO.
But not all of them, just a small batch. Enough to run rememberance tours. I feel the B10M III and O405 are models also worth saving a few of. The Olympians must have a temple built in their honour; great buses that served the DD world.
Of course, it's because I fell in love with them because of my most-used routes being 334, 157, 170 and 160.
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Originally posted by watson374:
But not all of them, just a small batch. Enough to run rememberance tours. I feel the B10M III and O405 are models also worth saving a few of. The Olympians must have a temple built in their honour; great buses that served the DD world.
Of course, it's because I fell in love with them because of my most-used routes being 334, 157, 170 and 160.
If only SBS or Ministry of Transport would have adopted the idea of such old bus museums here, we could at least till now get to see the old Mercedes Benz OF1413s, LP1113s, O305s, etc, Albion Vikings, Leyland Atlanteans, Victories, Bedfords, Fords, Fargo Kews, Berliet PGKs, Volvo B57s, Nissan UDs, etc, and even demonstrors like the Leyland Leopard, National 2, Dennis Dominator, Renault PR100.3, Volvo Citybus, B55 Alisa.What a heaven for bus fans.
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Originally posted by iveco:
Ah, the venerable O305 SDs. Many of them were sold to private coach operators after retiring from route service.
But it's a pity that our Mercedes Benz O305s weren't sold to European countries or China to continue their lives elsewhere. They were such good workhorses. -
We can't simply junk them in places where traffic is right-running. But I can give you all a perfect destination for them. Almost nothing needs to be done but drive them over, re-register them, change paint and click go.
It's called Malaysia.
Seriously, places like Penang need more buses now and this would be a near-instant fix at low cost, to supplement numbers for a few years.
Another great place would be JB.
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Originally posted by watson374:
We can't simply junk them in places where traffic is right-running. But I can give you all a perfect destination for them. Almost nothing needs to be done but drive them over, re-register them, change paint and click go.
It's called Malaysia.
Seriously, places like Penang need more buses now and this would be a near-instant fix at low cost, to supplement numbers for a few years.
Another great place would be JB.
i would certainly be more than happy if those former-to-be sbst or even smrt buses end up there. -
Originally posted by watson374:
We can't simply junk them in places where traffic is right-running. But I can give you all a perfect destination for them. Almost nothing needs to be done but drive them over, re-register them, change paint and click go.
It's called Malaysia.
Seriously, places like Penang need more buses now and this would be a near-instant fix at low cost, to supplement numbers for a few years.
Another great place would be JB.
Imagine the ex-TIB Dennis Lances there? They are the only ones that can fit in. -
Originally posted by iveco:
Imagine the ex-TIB Dennis Lances there? They are the only ones that can fit in.Fit where? Even Penang can take 12m buses you know.
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LOL if tat case Dennis Lance shld deploy on 950.. since it got M'sia standard.. haha. Imagine Triton & SMRT lance together..
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Originally posted by iveco:
Imagine the ex-TIB Dennis Lances there? They are the only ones that can fit in.
Does Malaysia have a requirement now that all new buses have to be WAB???
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Originally posted by SBS 1000U:
Does Malaysia have a requirement now that all new buses have to be WAB???Nope, but elderly-friendly. Which means LOW-ENTRY.
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These are not new buses; that's the difference.
Anyway, a good deal of rapidKL's current fleet is step-entry. Everything that precedes the B7RLE (a better model than the Scania K-series, IMHO; the one case where KL has a better model than Singapore) is stepped, save a few exceptions.
The horde of Dongfeng buses bought for the inner areas in 2006 are certainly 2-step (like the Volvo B10M).
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Sorry OT a bit, Can anyone enlighten me what model is this? It's a Leyland in old SBS livery, wondering was it been registered before as I've never seen it before on the road.
Photo courtesy extracted from internet.
Cheers.
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Originally posted by SGCar:
Sorry OT a bit, Can anyone enlighten me what model is this? It's a Leyland in old SBS livery, wondering was it been registered before as I've never seen it before on the road.
Photo courtesy extracted from internet.
Cheers.
Leyland Leopard demo.
Brought in by SBS in the 1980s for evaluation to see whether should they get this for the next fleet renewal purchase. It was bodied by Alexander and registered as SBS6791L. Sadly, it didn't make through the trial and was returned to UK after that.
Certainly resembles a lot like the Volvo B57.
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Originally posted by SGCar:
Sorry OT a bit, Can anyone enlighten me what model is this? It's a Leyland in old SBS livery, wondering was it been registered before as I've never seen it before on the road.
Photo courtesy extracted from internet.
Cheers.
Wonder where is this place,
Background shows 1 NAC DD with SEIKO advert, shld be the LA.. and the visible Mini cooper car
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Originally posted by SGCar:
Sorry OT a bit, Can anyone enlighten me what model is this? It's a Leyland in old SBS livery, wondering was it been registered before as I've never seen it before on the road.
Photo courtesy extracted from internet.
Cheers.
Hmm, rego plate reads "Alexander"?
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Hey that leyland leopard bus i took it before it was on the old service 147 me took it to my primary school at toa payoh lor 6 that time no feeder bus service or interchange in toa payoh. not even mrt system. that was in 1981 or 82 i think
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Originally posted by wsy1234:
Hey that leyland leopard bus i took it before it was on the old service 147 me took it to my primary school at toa payoh lor 6 that time no feeder bus service or interchange in toa payoh. not even mrt system. that was in 1981 or 82 i think
Also that leyland national was in service 143 both were on toa payoh route in the early 80s. by the way that deport i think was somewhere in old toa payoh in kim keat ave.Also it a pity both bus cannot make it to sbs renewer. I remember Leopard sound like the leyland Victory only thing it not so loud and the bus driver panel also the same as leyland DD bus.