How 'new' gas powered buses in South Durham actually date back to the Second World War
TO help the environment, Arriva announced in 2013 that it would begin running gas-powered buses in south Durham – they are the ones with the flat bulge, like a saddle on a worm, on the roof. But there is nothing new under the sun, and in Memories 513 we published a Second World War picture of United buses in the depot at Northallerton pulling strange trailers behind them. Was it a strange fuelling experiment, we asked? “Not an experiment but a wartime expedient based on well established technology which had been around for over a century in 1940,” replied Richard Stone. “The tra...
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