4:12 Enviro400s built for the UK do not have air conditioning. Those fans at the rear are just for ventilation, not proper AC. The ones built for Hong Kong and other tropical climates do, which is why they do not have a lower deck window at the rear as this space is taken up by AC equipment.
What's the fascination with double deckers in London. They have been used all over the UK since the early 1900's and first used in Paris in the 1800's. Listening her you would think they only existed in London in the early days.
When focusing on the engine, I couldn't really help but notice that some of it is Green in colour which reminds me of a similar video which went behind the scenes at a factory in Warwickshire, England where they make the Dennis Eagle bin lorries/garbage trucks and they had 3 different engines to put in their vehicles depending on which country they were going to be used. Green, Red and Black were the colours. Green were the Volvo engines and they were for use in the UK. Black were the Renault engines and they were for use in mainland Europe. Red I think were Tata engines from India and they were for use in Asia. It just so happens that I know MCV has close ties with Volvo so I wouldn't really be surprised if it was Volvo engines being installed in the double decker buses we saw here.
The way they put the bus together with the steel pillars to help support the roof makes a lot of sense and helps create a safe and secure vehicle. The workers do a great job, and work well as a team.
Without doubt the best bus I ever drove was the routemaster, much better than OPO, the conductor got all the shite whilst I was nicely tucked up in the cab with no contact with passengers.
Iraq used the English double decker buses since 1953 untill 2000 they were real very good buses Leyland buses as I remember .. inside buses there was tags wrote on it park royal roe .. but didn't know what does mean I have very nice memories in my childhood and teenage with those lovely buses in baghdad
They used too, Bristol Commercial Vehicles when they were still making buses at Brislington used to drive them to Lowestoft to the old Eastern Coachworks Factory. Those chassis's in the video were built at Guildford in the AD facility there to go to the Alexanders Factory at Falkirk for bodying, except they travel on the back of an artic these days.
I gather that the reason double deckers have never really taken off in the USA is because they have too many low bridges and flyovers to make it worth their while.
The tv series is based out of Canada 🇨🇦. So the narrators are always Canadian 🇨🇦 You can tell when she says through out the world ( sounds like ooot ) love that accent 😎
This is a US TV show, so "gas tank" would be a correct term. Also it's geared towards a casual viewer base and children, who probably won't know what torque is.
So that's how they made a double decker bus that is so cool though the Wonder British people like the buses so much I kind of like them too man I wish we have buses right back where we live
But the body structure is too weak for impact. In Hong Kong, there have an ADL E500MMC bus crash into a tree, the bus body is tear away and killed 6 passengers. Also, the body have many cracking sound when the bus driving on rough road.
that woman on the video is going between 2 different buses, when you see the building the bus is a london 2 door ADL yet when it shows you at 4.30 its a single door stgc bus
Sure is interesting on making double decker buses. However, there needs to be fully conventional double decker buses with the engine in front of the driver's seat and the transmission be placed right beside the driver's seat. No cab-over-engines, diesel-pushers or any nose-less design. E.G. Look up Lancia Omicron.
@@reecewharf Lorries are cab over engine, buses I drive are rear engined to allow a lower seating position for the driver. COE lorries allow shorter wheel bases so they are more manoeuvrable in places that have turns
am i the only one confused by the fact that they are showing how a uk enviro 400 is made but then cut to a hong kong one lol [the hk one is most likeley a enviro500 if im not mistaken]
How to convert Transit buses into RVs: 1. Remove all of the seats 2. Realized that due to the sloped floors, it would be way too expensive to do 3. Abandon it in a field
Merka often forgets that England has a lot more to it than just London, so it wouldn't necessarily understand that double deck buses can be found in a lot more places than London. And not just England either - ISTR Stagecoach started in Scotland, didn't they?
"250" horsepower V6.......That sounds somewhat underpowered for a vehicle as large as a bus, especially a double decker. But maybe the drivetrain puts out a lot of torque to make up for the horsepower. Just sayin'.
The engines rev up to about 2,500 or 3,000 - if you could get that same engine to spin up, the power curve would also increase - so based on a car engine, that would be ~500hp. The real power is the torque, much closer to 700 or 800Nm
Colin Vespa The market for buses all over the world is restricted. No one maker builds enough of them to justify mass production investment. Especially with the different models and specs they produce. All large vehicles built for a specific/specialised purpose are made like this everywhere. The economies of scale don’t exist. And it’s the same with railway vehicles. And especially ships.
+SBS7367Y Svc 196 It mentioned in the video that it has aircon ("The hole above the window for the upper deck air con") Regardless, air con is a pointless feature on british buses anyway. It never gets hot enough and nobody is ever on a bus long enough to make it worth while.
Stefan Trujillo Wrightbus are far better, the hybrid Gemini 2's are just like driving a car. ADL Enviros are crap. Stagecoach use them because they own almost half the company.
Cant believe im watching this on Christmas eve.
Same David joyce
Happy Holidays.
And I am now watching this on new year´s eve.
Day after new years day
By the time this vid was recommended to me, that very same bus being built was decommissioned
LOL
I see the chassis on the back of lorries heading to Alexander Dennis in Falkirk a few times a week. Great video.
It's satisfying though seeing the bus is in production...
As a bus (& other vehicle) enthusiast I love seeing vids like this
4:12 Enviro400s built for the UK do not have air conditioning. Those fans at the rear are just for ventilation, not proper AC. The ones built for Hong Kong and other tropical climates do, which is why they do not have a lower deck window at the rear as this space is taken up by AC equipment.
They have ac for the driver and front vents, but yeah your right those vents aren't for ac
So thats why I melt in the summer on them.
What's the fascination with double deckers in London. They have been used all over the UK since the early 1900's and first used in Paris in the 1800's. Listening her you would think they only existed in London in the early days.
How its made: Enviro 400s
Eh. Still interesting considering they're everywhere.
😉
When focusing on the engine, I couldn't really help but notice that some of it is Green in colour which reminds me of a similar video which went behind the scenes at a factory in Warwickshire, England where they make the Dennis Eagle bin lorries/garbage trucks and they had 3 different engines to put in their vehicles depending on which country they were going to be used.
Green, Red and Black were the colours.
Green were the Volvo engines and they were for use in the UK.
Black were the Renault engines and they were for use in mainland Europe.
Red I think were Tata engines from India and they were for use in Asia.
It just so happens that I know MCV has close ties with Volvo so I wouldn't really be surprised if it was Volvo engines being installed in the double decker buses we saw here.
The way they put the bus together with the steel pillars to help support the roof makes a lot of sense and helps create a safe and secure vehicle.
The workers do a great job, and work well as a team.
Dennis have built buses, lorries and fire engines since the beginning of time.
now its alexander dennis
Good narration and good video... explaining the detail of manufacturing of double-deckers within a short time excellently... !!!
The bus is an Alexander Dennis Enviro 400.
☢ SNICKERS 5+2 GRATIS ☢ everyone knows
The 3 axle one is Enviro 500MMC, made for HK & Singapore
I've told you the chassis is a Trident the model is the e40D
old rubbish,we drivers hate them
Alexander Dennis is owned by New flyer industries
Without doubt the best bus I ever drove was the routemaster, much better than OPO, the conductor got all the shite whilst I was nicely tucked up in the cab with no contact with passengers.
This episode was brilliant!
I have to get that stagecoach bus into school and back every day
I enjoy watching all of these
Very educational!
I dont know why but last time, I watched this and now when I watch this, I feel a rush of nostalgia.
0:36 when would a bus get that out of shape?😂😂😂😂
i'm not a bus enthusiast, but this video was still very interesting!
Wow!! Awesome!!
Can see the assembling line of ADL Dennis Enviro400, even can spot the Hong Kong Citybus Enviro400 as well !!
yes I saw that
Me Too
Iraq used the English double decker buses since 1953 untill 2000
they were real very good buses
Leyland buses as I remember .. inside buses there was tags wrote on it park royal roe .. but didn't know what does mean
I have very nice memories in my childhood and teenage with those lovely buses in baghdad
Leyland built the chassis and mechanical components, Park Royal were the body builders.
@@660einzylinder
thank you very much for explain
One of those would make a real nice RV. After filling the gaps around the insulation blocks seen at 3:46, that is.
Very cool. I'm surprised at how much adhesives have taken over for rivets. Thanks.
2:29 I want to drive it like that!!
They used too, Bristol Commercial Vehicles when they were still making buses at Brislington used to drive them to Lowestoft to the old Eastern Coachworks Factory. Those chassis's in the video were built at Guildford in the AD facility there to go to the Alexanders Factory at Falkirk for bodying, except they travel on the back of an artic these days.
@@darreng745 Class A Motorhomes in USA are still built in that way.
4:30 stagecoach 🚎🚧🚎
I gather that the reason double deckers have never really taken off in the USA is because they have too many low bridges and flyovers to make it worth their while.
Wait, why an American notator for an british vid?
roblox fan bc a British person has NEVER narrated an American show.....
I think the program went out in America, the subject is a British bus, the British show does have a British narrator.
The tv series is based out of Canada 🇨🇦. So the narrators are always Canadian 🇨🇦
You can tell when she says through out the world
( sounds like ooot ) love that accent 😎
@@_OZZIE_RASCAL How? You hear that because that is what you think is "oot"
🤨🇬🇧
brilliant video
just wanted to know how center deck floor is joined to side structure???
Oooo enviro 400 nice 👍
The factory in this video is the ADL factory near Manchester
I was just wondering if the factory in the video was in fact Alexander Dennis (ADL) in Falkirk, Scotland.
Gas tank? Specific tightness? (torque) These buses are typically 14' 6"
This is a US TV show, so "gas tank" would be a correct term. Also it's geared towards a casual viewer base and children, who probably won't know what torque is.
@@thelight3112 gas.... gasoline... it's DIESEL!
@@forevercomputing "Gas tank" is a common term for any sort of fuel tank.
@@thelight3112 So, every vehicle that requires a liquid to be combusted -is gasoline? Yeah, fuel tank would be more neutral. Like he or she (they)
@@forevercomputing It's just an informal name for a fuel tank because the vast majority of engines in the US are gasoline powered.
i want one !!!!!!
So that's how they're made!
So that's how they made a double decker bus that is so cool though the Wonder British people like the buses so much I kind of like them too man I wish we have buses right back where we live
How long does the bus take to build?
But the body structure is too weak for impact. In Hong Kong, there have an ADL E500MMC bus crash into a tree, the bus body is tear away and killed 6 passengers. Also, the body have many cracking sound when the bus driving on rough road.
Yeah they're not great.
Give me a Wright/Volvo combo any day.
4:23 This is the only hongkong stuff you get
Just look at the side and the back isnt that hongkongish?
@@germani69 It is. Its got no window openned. Believe it's for MTR.
Wow i like buses now
What shoe series is this?
This is too cool * Amazing trivial George Donaldson of Celtic Thunder worked on these before being with Celtic Thunder !!!
that woman on the video is going between 2 different buses, when you see the building the bus is a london 2 door ADL yet when it shows you at 4.30 its a single door stgc bus
The seats aren't dark and patterned to discourage graffiti.
I wouldn't go searching for the real answer if you've just eaten.
Aloominum, a new metal, just discovered...
4:20 this is fun
And i get the number 3 sometimes
I wanna buy one bus and turn it into an RV
I see a ctb bus near the ADL
The pattern is a stagecoach livery, Africa or first or even tower transit .. have the own livery more bull shot from the yanks.
😮
It is
Nice couldboon
Ifu u
They made an Enviro400 trident
Aluminum 😭
Is that at Alexander Dennis coachbuilders in falkirk
Plaxtons at Scarborough also build these bodies, could be either of them.
A lot of the buses in Brighton are from Alexander Dennis. They are all Scotland registered. Apart from some of the Scanias.
No it's the chassis factory in Guildford Surrey, where they've been built from the beginning. I live up the road from the factory
Sure is interesting on making double decker buses. However, there needs to be fully conventional double decker buses with the engine in front of the driver's seat and the transmission be placed right beside the driver's seat. No cab-over-engines, diesel-pushers or any nose-less design. E.G. Look up Lancia Omicron.
Why though? Also it isn't cab over engine it's rear engined
@@reecewharf Lorries are cab over engine, buses I drive are rear engined to allow a lower seating position for the driver. COE lorries allow shorter wheel bases so they are more manoeuvrable in places that have turns
What a stupid idea
Hongkong e400 is produce by珠海
My fat ass thought it was the double decker chocolate
No wonder very few cities still use a significant number of double decker, they only fit 92 passengers which is only 12 more than a regular bus.
That figure includes standing passengers. Capacity is about 74 seated - something that hasn't changed since the 1970s.
@@uk-martin4905 well standing passengers are still passengers on the bus, aren't they?
you can review the recommended process on th-cam.com/play/PLDkiyc35lD-gRk1uNiiiJkMNoNs4doBr8.html
easy i can make one any time
I want to fly it
我見到一部擬似城巴市區版ADL E500MMC(位置大約係片尾
果部係城巴E400
E400
am i the only one confused by the fact that they are showing how a uk enviro 400 is made but then cut to a hong kong one lol
[the hk one is most likeley a enviro500 if im not mistaken]
Stagecoach isn't it?
the bus is a stagecoach bus
Yes it is
ha lol stagecoach
Whaaaaat, stairs on a bus????
what do u expect? elevators in bus? :/
+Porsche Carrera GT Idk XD
I just didn't expect stairs
derpyz muffinz then?
+Porsche Carrera GT Idk
derpyz muffinz yea that's normal for us Londoners so stfu
I want one to make a RV
same
don't you mean a camper van
How to convert Transit buses into RVs:
1. Remove all of the seats
2. Realized that due to the sloped floors, it would be way too expensive to do
3. Abandon it in a field
What happened to the English blokes voice on here?
@Red Pilled Fox Then you have to rename sodum, chromum, titanium, etc. This is why it was changed to an ~ium
It's just a script and both will say the same things. You never hear the audio from the clips.
It's a Canadian production redubbed for the UK.
@@DavidJones-wx4im I don’t think it's re-dubbed as there there is no machine sounds, no factory noise.
@@forevercomputing its the narration that's been redubbed.
Built in Scotland
what about blackpool and other parts of England 😆🙂👍💰💰💰💰💰🏆🏆🏆🏆❤❤❤❤❤❤
Merka often forgets that England has a lot more to it than just London, so it wouldn't necessarily understand that double deck buses can be found in a lot more places than London. And not just England either - ISTR Stagecoach started in Scotland, didn't they?
Where's Londonengland?
Unitedkingdomeuropeearth.
@@Quasihamster Anywhere near Alpha Centuri? I can't find it on a map
Looks likemiy
Why London Double decker buses still using cringy plates instead of Hanovers?
Cuz its originol and traditional,
@@oliverbriggs7356 are you sure about that
275 meter diesel tank
She said "liter".
@@worldofai-games1036 Nope - Leeder "gas" tank. These things run on Diesel or CNG
hello! 12 cameras to do what? can't hear that
1. Forward
2. Rerversing
3. Front door
4. Mid door
5. lower deck back seats
6. upper deck
7. upper deck rear seats
8. left side exterior
9. right side exterior
10. driver
11. additional upper (most likely)/additional exterior
12 additional lower (most likely)/additional exterior
Tshasssi???
CH assee - Shassis ;)
"250" horsepower V6.......That sounds somewhat underpowered for a vehicle as large as a bus, especially a double decker. But maybe the drivetrain puts out a lot of torque to make up for the horsepower. Just sayin'.
More than enough to crawl through london streets
The engines rev up to about 2,500 or 3,000 - if you could get that same engine to spin up, the power curve would also increase - so based on a car engine, that would be ~500hp. The real power is the torque, much closer to 700 or 800Nm
Inline 6, not V6
Still great to watch but not the same with the American woman doin the commentary
Aloomanoom? PMSL
0:02 I have this toy
cuz ur an routemaster fan
@Alex_OffRailsCanada wright eclipse 2s are better 😁 or scania l94ub solars
@Alex_OffRailsCanada im not saying there bad there are just other buses i prefer to them
@Alex_OffRailsCanada and what do you mean by any bus after the 50s would be better a route master is faster then a street lite
@Alex_OffRailsCanada and...
Seems labour intensive, no automated production line.
Could buses be made cheaper if it was automated ?
Colin Vespa The market for buses all over the world is restricted. No one maker builds enough of them to justify mass production investment. Especially with the different models and specs they produce. All large vehicles built for a specific/specialised purpose are made like this everywhere. The economies of scale don’t exist. And it’s the same with railway vehicles. And especially ships.
4:33 I can see citybus enviro 400 that used in Hong Kong
This is not so 21st century ... omg
Look for the production of Evobus for example if you want to see 21st century tech.
completely fast context qhcwgg long revenue feel cookie.
If the cameras are hidden it’s there for not a deterrent because nobody knows they are their ???
Shitty ass bus. No aircon
+SBS7367Y Svc 196 It mentioned in the video that it has aircon ("The hole above the window for the upper deck air con")
Regardless, air con is a pointless feature on british buses anyway. It never gets hot enough and nobody is ever on a bus long enough to make it worth while.
Worst buses to drive always braking down
The ADL chassis ones are. We have the Scania chassis ones here and they are probably our most reliable ones.
ADL. Cheap s**t. Terrible to drive.
+kondziu77 Which ones are best? I've heard good things about Volvo.
+Salvatore Shiggerino Wrightbus use similar process but have better/more quality built buses
Stefan Trujillo Wrightbus are far better, the hybrid Gemini 2's are just like driving a car. ADL Enviros are crap. Stagecoach use them because they own almost half the company.
ADL is great so please get lost
kondziu77 get lost in hk.We have a lot of ADL,s and,they're very good
Horrible yank commentary as per norm
That voice is so American, so many mistakes to the English language haha
This bus is junk
Similar to your face.