I began this thread yesterday but somehow it got deleted before I had a chance to submit it
but here we go again.
During the war years fuel was rationed,this hit everyone including the haulage companies and bus companies, the CMS came up with a great idea and it worked, now some of you youngsters are going to think this is a "wind up" but believe you me it is true, the wife does`nt believe it happened either but may be there`s just a chance someone on here will confirm it, here goes,
the CMS ran single decker buses which towed a trailer and on this trailer was a coke/coal/wood fired boiler which produced gas to a balloon shaped bag on top of the bus roof and this fueled the engine thus doing away with the use of petrol, can`t remember if buses ran on diesel during that time, my wife scoffed when I mentioned this so I got in touch with an ex CMS bus driver and put this to him and it turned out that he actually drove these buses with the boiler attached, but I`m sorry to say that the chap passed away 5/6 years ago.
Just to finish off, there was a fatality with one of these buses, do any of you remember when you would jump off a bus when it slowed down at a stop to let people off well one bloke had a habit of doing this after several warnings from the conductor to stop it but being young and daft he kept on doing it until one day he jumped off the bus and forgot about the trailer behind,the trailer went over him, did`nt kill him but he is lame to this day----so guys,wait till the bus stops,you don`t know whats coming up behind!!!!!!!!!
Honestly, this is no leg pull, I`d would be interested to hear from anyone who remembers these vehicles on the roads during wartime.