Double-decker bus tilt test in 1933 - photo

Double-decker bus tilt test in 1933, London.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...056#post125563
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...224#post126496

Add people and it would probably flop at 20*.

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Originally Posted by Loose Ctrl

Add people and it would probably flop at 20*.

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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.
More hear at
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/dou...-testing-1933/

We couldn't use double deckers here in S.E.Q (Brisbane) due to the camber of our roads for tropical storms.

2:52 video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xztL-ISp-wA

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.