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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 58
Joined: 02 Oct 2014
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Location: New York, New York, USA
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 Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2018 5:26 am Post subject: Re: Transit buses with rear windows/ETB's, etc. |
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| NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | | Tiny Tim wrote: | | I never liked the look of the flexes with that small back window. |
Neither did I.
I always preferred the original rear window myself; the smaller rear window on the later Flex New Looks almost looked like an afterthought that didn't look quite right..... |
On both GM and Flx New Looks, my preference in the rear windows was towards the 4-piece layout as opposed to the 3-piece. My reasons differed from those of maintenance and repair shop personnel at the various depots/garages housing those buses, whose preference was related to the 4-piece being easier to maintain, and cheaper to replace window panels, than the 3-piece. For me, it was more symmetry as well as having to do with the solidity of the structure of the buses.
I seem to recall the first buses within NYC's bailiwick built with the rear windows as 4-piece were the GM-built OA 6401-6900 (contract #MB-16-OA) and Flx-built TA 5601-5790 (contract #MB-16) in 1965-66. Several buses built before that (dating back to TA 1-190) were so converted ex-post facto (after the fact), though some managed to retain their original 3-piece (among them, the allotment of the 1964-65 group of OA buses that had been stationed at 54th Street).
I was none too fond of the small rear window on those 1975-77 Flx', either, B.T.W. I seem to recall reading that that was meant that way as an emergency exit. |
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