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Post by tommyinyork on Nov 14, 2009 14:39:03 GMT 1
Howcome all new buses for WYPTE in the 70/80's had leather seats on the upper deck such as Olympians, MCW's, Atlanteans etc
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Post by Burnside on Nov 14, 2009 15:19:16 GMT 1
Not real leather i don't think
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Post by timelesstable on Nov 14, 2009 17:27:40 GMT 1
Howcome all new buses for WYPTE in the 70/80's had leather seats on the upper deck such as Olympians, MCW's, Atlanteans etc You would have to go back to the 1950's and into the earlier 1960's to find real leather used on the seats on the upper deck of most municipal bus fleets. |
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Post by puggy on Nov 15, 2009 17:54:01 GMT 1
I remember in summer these sort of seats made the buses very hot indeed (before climate change!!!)
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Post by 576 Gemini 2 on Nov 15, 2009 20:11:42 GMT 1
The Atlanteans of the 6001-6191 series had green,black or red upper deck seats upstairs. One of the ex gold rider Olympians at Halifax was fitted with seats that came from a fleetline when the the coach seats were removed
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Post by 158757 on Nov 15, 2009 22:24:08 GMT 1
Yeh I don't think it was real leather but it was leather style. Most of the original ones had it, but buses than came from GMPTE such as the later atlanteans to Huddersfield had normal fabric upstairs. The ex-GMPTE Huddersfield atlanteans even got treated to the red "Quality Service" moquette as used on the Northern Counties Olympians (Fxxx XYG and L3xx PWR series) in Halifax if I remember correctly, although never received Quality Service branding.
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Post by metropaul on Jul 25, 2010 17:16:48 GMT 1
The reason for the "leather" seats in upper saloons was probably related to vandalism and smoking.
The seats were probably cheaper to replace when damaged, and possibly a bit more resistant to cig burns than those used in the lower saloons
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Post by Matty on Jul 28, 2010 18:47:44 GMT 1
Does anybody know what the F*** XYG's had originally because i'm sure I remember the grey YR Moquette on them but i'm not quite sure.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Jul 29, 2010 9:37:23 GMT 1
I would say it was to do with smoking. f*g ash would of course stop on normal seats.
Can't remember whether smoking was allowed on single deckers ?
Coaches always seemed to have ash trays.
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Post by Bradford Traveller on Jul 29, 2010 9:46:49 GMT 1
F@g is not a rude word.
I think the orig question may have referred to the fact that seats continued in this manner past the year when smoking was unofficially banned on buses. Ie the seats were leather type but no ashtrays/stub metals.
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Post by westyorkshirebus on Aug 15, 2010 12:53:29 GMT 1
Does anybody know what the F*** XYG's had originally because i'm sure I remember the grey YR Moquette on them but i'm not quite sure. They originally had the grey and pink Yorkshire Rider seating (the earlier version of the two versions). Did any of the Atlanteans have the London Buses orange/brown/yellow seating fabric upstairs or was this just the Olympians? |
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Post by Burnside on Aug 17, 2010 9:24:24 GMT 1
IIRC the native Atlanteans all had the faux leather.
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Post by busman3 on Aug 17, 2010 18:10:58 GMT 1
It was leatherette
In Sheffield it was tradiotional that the upper deck was leatherette / cloth on the backs and cloth on the bottoms - the actual seats
The lower deck was the same as the upper deck for the backs but the seats were cloth - the reasoning behind this was that workman with overalls went up stairs and ladies with clean skirts went down stairs so it was easier to keep the upper deck clean.
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