gingerfold:
Ray Smyth:
Hi Graham, Thank you for your post and comments. I was aware that the offset/offside driveline as in picture 1 was fairly
common with bus chassis manufacturers, but I am intrigued with the driveline in picture 2, particularly where a short drive
shaft turns through 90 deg to the nearside of he chassis, was the diff at this point ? and did any other makers use this layout
other than Bristol and Dennis ?Kind Regards, Ray.
I cannot make out what is happening in the second photo. It was also quite common to locate the gearbox mid-chassis on PSV chassis.
Bristol Built two prototype lodekkas one went to Bristol the other to West Yorkshire. They had the chassis where the shaft from the gearbox was taken to both sides of the chassis half way down and from here there was a drive shaft back to each rear wheel. The bodies were hashed up by ECW from existing bodies. The chassis suffered from broken half shafts in service and the production model came out with the single prop shaft to the offside of the rear drop axle. ECW designed a new body for it.