Mostly useless information; mostly a load of old Bull…
Best bus name ever 
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Instant Pavlovian Flanders and Swann response…
The sound of this fucker:
Cummins V6. Never heard one. This sounds fucking lovely:
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Awesome !
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Sounds wonderful - who knew a bus could have rhythm?!
Not sure which particular engine models were involved, but back before BL started putting adequately powerful turbodiesels into Land Rovers, people used to drop an assortment of light-medium commercial engines into them to replace the woefully underpower NA 4-pots they’d been equipped with since the Late Palaeolithic. V6 Cumminseseses were among them.
Considered it myself, but questions concerning the radically altered weight distribution, brake-sufficiency, and gearbox-liquidising amounts of torque went unanswered and the ‘project’ was swerved! 
The Shetland bus, or one of them. The Andholmen, a Norwegian fishing boat that ferried people and cargo during WW2, over for the VE day anniversary. A distinctive sound from the single cylinder semi-diesel.
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This seems to be a common fitment. I only know it from Dennis Dart models Ive driven over the years!
The Cummins V6- according to various books and magazines in my collection- wasn’t at all reliable and it used a lot of fuel compared to the Gardner lumps of that time.
You dodged a bullet!
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My longest drive in a bus was behind the wheel of this machine.
Nippy and very difficult to keep to 50* because she wanted to keep accelerating!
The Leyland TL11 is my favourite sounding engine. Effortless torque- not like the rev-happy four and six bangers I was accustomed to!
*On Motorways in order to save the hub reduction rear axle seals from blowing.
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A surprisingly successful Power Unit, this.
Launched in 1948 as the O.600, the unit was produced under licence by DAF, Mielec - until the mid to late 'nineties and of course Ashok Leyland:
You’ve all heard this familiar sound at some point.
This might be an excuse to go shopping for records:
You got home safely then 
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Oh yes; Alison is very good like that!
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We all need an Alison in our lives
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