HOW A CLASSIC BUS CLIMBS PORLOCK HILL
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Description We follow this old Bristol bus from 1950 through Porlock and see how it gets on with hauling passengers up this very steep hill.
A old friend from our Microcar days is also in the car with us. He now owns a vintage Singer Junior car which in its heyday produced a special version called the Porlock. It was one of the first old cars able to climb Porlock Hill without distress and set a record time for doing so!
Back in the day when I was young and stupid I towed a caravan up Porlock hill - now I’m old and stupid but have learned from my experiences
Thats Good! Ha! Ha!
Really good. Enjoyed my ride
The bus went one way you went the other,....we went up there in a Shearings Coach and he struggled some ...sounds like a lot of laughter there in your car ...Dave
+David Howarth In the past they used to climb the main hill with a modern bus on this route but now they are going we discover via the toll road which isn't so steep but takes longer.
Yes it must be a struggle up there ,,, especially if there is no synchromesh on the gearbox ,,,
+Alan Plumb It is great to know that one of the drivers of that bus comes a long distance just for the fun of driving an old bus on this route.
It is not fun driving an ancient bus through Porlock with its narrow high street before the winding steep hill. Where is it going to? My guess is from Minehead to Lynmouth, and will require good brakes descending the long Countisbury Hill into Lynmouth.
We had family holiday in a farmhouse on north hill in October 2010 there was a double decker running from Minehead to Lynmouth for £6 return you could go via Porlock hill only day we had spare it rained hard so we backed out as a bus driver in 60s 70s and 80s I finished I'll health in 1990 I drove for Aldershot & District and Alder Vally south Allan
You should have called this one...'Much laughter with Val in a small White Car up Porlock Hill' Lol....And the chase goes on.....That Bus took the scenic route then ...Safer that way !
+Steve Lewis Video Channel. Yes Steve! I uploaded this video as much for the conversation in the car as for seeing the Porlock Hill climb!
It was hilarious.
Hopeless. The wide-angle lens just flattens the gradient. I had no sense of ascending a steep hill. Neither did the bus.
So how would you improve the situation?
Can't the lens be zoomed in a little? You'd sacrifice some field of view but the perspective would be much more realistic, more like the eye sees it.
The next time I am in the area I will try that to some extent but we do need to see some of the side scenery or the hill could be anywhere.
There is a hill very near me called Succombs Hill (Warlingham, Surrey) which is 1 in 4. When approaching the the top on the level the you think you're going to drive over a cliff but I am always a bit disappointed in the many photos I see on various websites which always seem to flatten it out. The answer seems to be to zoom to x1.4 or so to get a truer impression, at least on my bog-standard little camera.
Worth experimenting with!