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    Add people and it would probably flop at 20*.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loose Ctrl View Post
    Add people and it would probably flop at 20*.
    My grandfather was a bus driver for London Transport his his whole working life, as a youngster I asked him the same question, he said he never heard of a bus tipping over. The test had sandbags on seats on the upper deck to simulate 60 passengers.
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    We couldn't use double deckers here in S.E.Q (Brisbane) due to the camber of our roads for tropical storms.

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    That inspector had a lot of confidence in his job, imagine a test like that these days, an army of hard hats with clipboards at fifty paces and all done by robots.



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