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Uploaded by on May 9, 2007

Take a ride on this Olympian with its Voith gearbox in Plymouth in August 2006.

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  • Thats strange. It sounds just like an ex Leeds Metrobus such as 7575!

  • It is the same type of engine and gearbox, thats why it will sound like a Metrobus.

  • When your in Plmyoth can u find out were this beast is and wever its scrapped or not?

    thanks!

  • Its probably withdrawn, haven't seen it the last couple of times I have been there, its definately not in Plymouth.

  • This bus very different to LRT Lothian sOlympians what is left

  • Were the ECW's voith? I saw one ex LRT Lothian waiting by the Ocean Terminal a few Sundays back displaying Leith Walk, do these buses operate some service do you know?

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  • @ClassicTVMan1981X After numberous buy outs Gardner to Perkins then Perkins to Catepillar they now own the design to the engines. So they can make them without royalty to Gardners even though the havent appeared on any buses in the UK yet as the 6LXCT failed Euro 1 emission standards.

  • @hamsterbus

    It's the same displacement as the Cat 1673C, 1674 and 3306. All of them have a 4-3/4" bore and 6" stroke to obtain the 10.5 liter/638 cubic inch displacement. I wonder if there were lawsuits concerning the Cat diesels' similarity to these Gardners?

  • Very nice, ex crosville DOG 123!

  • What was the upstairs and downstairs headroom on these?.

  • Engine sound is like MCW Metrobus

  • @6V92TA The 6LX and later updates are 10.45 Litres approx 638 cubic inches Somewhere in the middle of a cummins L10 and M11. I hate L10 Engines especially with ZF gearboxes.

  • @samhirst87 It really does!! Its bring back memory's =')

  • automatic gear box rebulids are about £1000

  • it does sound similar. but a metrobus has a different gearbox they are noisier than olympians

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