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#100 th Whymcycle, only one I built in the year 2000.
Named after the Harry Potter Quidditch racing broom. Harry was popular, at fever pitch waaaayyy back then. Nice 'Schwinn YO! ' scooter base bike, especially.
Note 3'' offset rear axel. This baby bounces for propulsion!
this : www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuwXdOQYpso at 30 , 60 & 2:10 has bouncers in action, with most of my other movers and shakers
Saw this during one of my morning explorations. I saw a small group (a family?) on the small pier. I hoped to catch a closer view but I would have lost some of the landscape detail...
I'm practicing my color sense... Doing this as my practice n collect my moods.... This Reminds me about some my dreams...
Nimbus lounging amongst the (mostly) Mystery novels on a bookshelf in the guest bedroom of our old apartment in Dunwoody, GA, in early 1998
Most of our books were packed away in boxes the whole time we lived in the apartment, and most of the bookshelves were stuffed full of those, and other, boxes. Those mysteries got their shelf space because most of them were bought while we lived in the apartment.
These days, Nimbus would have trouble fitting on that particular shelf even if all of the books were removed first.
With an injection of Duple finance following its takeover of the Loughborough coachworks in 1958 Willowbroook were moving into pole position as the supplier of single deck bodies for the British Electric Traction group. These large long-run orders began to affect Willowbrook’s previous position as a favoured supplier to independent bus operators, For an example Venture Transport (Newcastle) Ltd of Consett, County Durham took 1946-58 orders exclusively from Willowbrook but then favoured Park Royal and Weymann for a while until settling on Alexander. Both vehicles pictured in this advertisement are for BET affiliates, the Albion Nimbus, of the then current NS3N model has a light frame similar to the long-wheelbase Claymore CL3 lorry and shares with it an Albion four-cylinder horizontal engine which is basically a four cylinder derivative of the Leyland O:375H six cylinder in the Tiger Cub. Devon General Omnibus and Touring Company were the second largest BET customer for this model and their adoption of a large number to replace half-cab single deckers led the adjoining jointly-managed Western and Southern National companies in the Transport Holding Company’s Tilling group to commission a State-sector clone of the Nimbus in the shape of the Bristol-ECW SU. The neat Willowbrook body had first appeared on a Leyland Group demonstration Nimbus in 1955.
As to Willowbrook’s description of the Nimbus as rugged, well this was at least a dozen years before the Trades Descriptions Act.
Certainly the recently deceased Geoffrey Hillditch had a most contrary opinion of the type, getting rid of similar buses at Great Yarmouth when five years old, then when at Halifax doing the same with even younger examples.
To be fair to Albion, when on the sort of light-duty service it was designed for, it could last a long time. A former Devon General example of the batch pictured worked with Red Bus Service of Exeter in the early years of deregulation and Harvey of Mousehole, Cornwall had a former Halifax example in operation at the same time. Wiles of Port Seton, the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Company, Western Welsh Omnibus Company (the largest customer) and W Gash & Sons of Newark were other operators who found the Nimbus useful on deeply rural routes.
The Leyland Tiger Cub is, despite its pure BET bus outline, an express coach, it would have spent its early years working the Manchester-Blackpool, Liverpool-Manchester-London and Liverpool-Manchester-Newcastle upon Tyne express service routes for the North Western Road Car Company of Stockport. It’s a PSUC1/2 Tiger Cub with 43 coach seats and a luggage boot, the specification by 1959 including a Leyland O:375H 5.8 litre engine of 110bhp and an Albion five-speed gearbox; air brakes were standard on the Tiger Cub with no vacuum option.
The cursive script fleetnames were a BET trend of the time, East Midland, Stratford Blue, Midland Red, and the Northern Group all using this face.
In the 1990s a similar North Western semi-coach was owned by Eric Hutchinson, then Managing Director of Busways Travel Services. This was the standard BET look for 30 foot buses and express coaches from 1958 until 1964, As well as Weymann, Park Royal and Willowbrook, Alexander and Marshall built to this outline, overwhelmingly on Leyland Tiger Cub and AEC Reliance although Venture Transport’s last batch of Willowbrook-bodied Albion Aberdonians were also shared this appearance. Mr Hutchinson had served his time with Venture and their sole bus-bodied Willowbrook Tiger Cub was a favourite bus of his.
© 1959 Willowbrook Ltd reproduced for purposes of scholarship and research.
Nimbus clouds fly low over Lake Begnas. Begnas is a large beautiful lake near the entrance of the city. Fishing, boating and swimming are allowed in the lake. Tourists love this area simply because of the atmosphere that encompasses peace and beauty.
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बेगनास तालमाथि उडिरहेका निम्बस बादल हरु | शहरको द्वार नजिक अवस्थित ठुलो ताल बेगनास अति नै रमणीय छ | यस तालमा माछा मार्न, डुंगा खियाउन र पौडी खेल्न पाईन्छ | यस ताल वरपरको सुन्दर अनि शान्त वातावरणको कारण पर्यटकहरु यस क्षेत्रलाई निकै मन पराउँछन् |
(By Outdoor Himalayan Treks)