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原文传递 FENTON FILE

题名：	FENTON FILE
正文语种：	eng
作者：	MIKE FENTON
摘要：	Many long-time readers of this magazine will remember the entertaining Looking at Buses feature written by the late Geoffrey Hilditch under the pen name Gortonian, which ran from 1968 to 1970. These were then collated, expanded and republished (in his own name) in Ian Allan books; the first in 1979 under the same Looking at Buses name and the second, in 1981, as A Further Look at Buses. His subject in July 1968 Buses was the Daimler CD650 double-decker, which he reprised in the second of his books. With its huge chromium-plated radiator surround, the 10.6litre-engined CD650 was a magnificent looking machine, but buyers and fleet engineers of the day shied away from its hydraulic brakes, power steering and sundry other complexities, with home market sales amounting to just 14 (out of 66 built) to six operators in the early 1950s. Two customers took ten of them: four with lowbridge Willowbrook bodies going to Tailby & George's Blue Bus Services in Derbyshire; six with highbridge East Lanes bodies to Halifax Corporation.
出版年：	2023
期刊名称：	Buses
卷：	75
期：	823
页码：	61-61