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Here are excerpts from a proposed Flxible articulated bus.

Besides the attached pages the pamphlet also had the history of the original Twin Coach and European artics.

The bus was to be powered with an underfloor Cummins diesel engine.

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An ARTICULATED "Dangerfield"!!!!!!!

Man, if they had only been a REALITY!!!!!

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for sharing this!

"NYO"

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[Cyberider]

The color drawing looks like a modernized version of the original Twin articulated bus with front and rear axle steering and only up and down movement at the articulation.

The detailed drawing, though, has two axles in the trailing section. I wonder why? Was this bus going to be a conventional articulated that bends sideways and up and down at the articulation or like the original Twin articulated that only went up and down with the rear wheels steering. That would have meant both rear axles would have to steer.

Since it was never built, I guess it's just a theoretical question.

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Personally, I always wondered if GM ever toyed with the idea of an articulated Old Look or a Fishbowl.....

"NYO"

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[Cyberider]

Mississauga (Ontario) Transit had fishbowl articulateds. The front clip looked like those GM buses that were modernized fishbowls but the rest of the bus including the rear section looked like a fishbowl. I believe they had a number of these at one time. Scott Richards had one at one time and maybe still does.

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