Evening all. Need some ideas. I want one of these, probably not legal in the UK.

[Tow-cheris]

Evening all. Need some ideas. I want one of these, probably not legal in the UK.

[kavover]

I seen before, year ago...

[Tow-cheris]

I seen before, year ago...

probably... but I still want one

[RiCRBERIO]

Go big, get the jumbo cruiser - artic version!

[HeslikBoz]

Go big, get the jumbo cruiser - artic version!

I agree!

[IANTAND]

What about this one

[gillzPrecise]

Silver choice in east kilbride had these years ago

[ch0mChiro]

Silver choice in east kilbride had these years ago

They had Skyliners which were 3 axle. This is a Megaliner. Only available in Europe.

[gillzPrecise]

Silver choice in east kilbride had these years ago

They had Skyliners which were 3 axle. This is a Megaliner. Only available in Europe.

forgive my ignorance

[MetMource]

Silver choice in east kilbride had these years ago

They had Skyliners which were 3 axle. This is a Megaliner. Only available in Europe.

in France, it was only allowed on motorway from Belgium/Germany to Spain without exit from the road.

[ch0mChiro]

Silver choice in east kilbride had these years ago

They had Skyliners which were 3 axle. This is a Megaliner. Only available in Europe.

in France, it was only allowed on motorway from Belgium/Germany to Spain without exit from the road.

not ignorance at all. I only know the Silver Choice were Skyliners as the drivers used to give us lifts from our digs in London back to Victoria. I used to see the Megaliners in France when on shuttles. Only reason I knew of the difference is after seeing them in the flesh.

[ch0mChiro]

Silver choice in east kilbride had these years ago

They had Skyliners which were 3 axle. This is a Megaliner. Only available in Europe.

forgive my ignorance

I've seen one coming off North Sea Ferries at Hull before.

[alanso1112]

Silver choice in east kilbride had these years ago

I drove the skylines for Silver Choice 20 odd years ago, 4 over 4 8 speed manuals. They were ex Parks motors.

[gree1tallMc]

Pretty sure I seen one of these in London many years ago

[abrage_hemp]

I wouldn't have thought it would be legal with the main doors being on the off-side

[2380lleom]

I wouldn't have thought it would be legal with the main doors being on the off-side

most band buses have doors on the right

[LAVINDLE]

I wouldn't have thought it would be legal with the main doors being on the off-side

most band buses have doors on the right

seen this in York not so long ago

[AntonymWin]

I wouldn't have thought it would be legal with the main doors being on the off-side

if they so happen to get it registered as a British vehicle they obviously need to get a coif certificate so it would have a passenger entrance door on the drivers side along with a number of other things before they can get an MOT for it, that’s exactly what they do with left hand drive coaches registered on British plates

[AlannychXx]

I wouldn't have thought it would be legal with the main doors being on the off-side

what about the foreign coaches touring here and the Megabus left hand driven ones operating on the European services

[abrage_hemp]

I wouldn't have thought it would be legal with the main doors being on the off-side

what about the foreign coaches touring here and the Megabus left hand driven ones operating on the European services

true

[COLINZERP]

I wouldn't have thought it would be legal with the main doors being on the off-side

what about the foreign coaches touring here and the Megabus left hand driven ones operating on the European services

true

still legal, just the same as you using a UK coach in the EU....

[nankShilo]

Trathans at their best.

[Kirk3ohan]

For the new Glenwood run
Mark Dollard

[antornov234]

There was a pink one of those in the UK few years ago . Demonstrator . Looked bloody awful

[Dayxana]

Why would it not be legal? It's only 15m.
It just wouldn't be terribly practical unless you do a lot of continental work

[barketLao]

I bet it leaks

[cowMadd]

I’d be happy if we got the skyliner back tbh

[AntonymWin]

i don’t think they are illegal they started coming over to the uk in the late 80s, there was a bit of controversy about 15 metre coaches driving around British roads but here we are today with 13 and 14 metre coaches without anyone batting an eye lid

[Dayxana]

i don’t think they are illegal they started coming over to the uk in the late 80s, there was a bit of controversy about 15 metre coaches driving around British roads but here we are today with 13 and 14 metre coaches without anyone batting an eye lid

over 12m weren't allowed in the 80s

[AntonymWin]

i don’t think they are illegal they started coming over to the uk in the late 80s, there was a bit of controversy about 15 metre coaches driving around British roads but here we are today with 13 and 14 metre coaches without anyone batting an eye lid

over 12m weren't allowed in the 80s

she was 12 metres like i said late 80s

[AntonymWin]

i don’t think they are illegal they started coming over to the uk in the late 80s, there was a bit of controversy about 15 metre coaches driving around British roads but here we are today with 13 and 14 metre coaches without anyone batting an eye lid

over 12m weren't allowed in the 80s

but i do recall seeing those vehicles

[Dayxana]

i don’t think they are illegal they started coming over to the uk in the late 80s, there was a bit of controversy about 15 metre coaches driving around British roads but here we are today with 13 and 14 metre coaches without anyone batting an eye lid

over 12m weren't allowed in the 80s

but i do recall seeing those vehicles

you said controversy, they did come in occasionally but weren't allowed, can't remember what year the rules changed and we could have over 12s

[AntonymWin]

over 12m weren't allowed in the 80s

but i do recall seeing those vehicles

you said controversy, they did come in occasionally but weren't allowed, can't remember what year the rules changed and we could have over 12s

I’m going to say 89 i maybe wrong

[Dayxana]

but i do recall seeing those vehicles

you said controversy, they did come in occasionally but weren't allowed, can't remember what year the rules changed and we could have over 12s

I’m going to say 89 i maybe wrong

later than that, some time in the late 90s

[AntonymWin]

you said controversy, they did come in occasionally but weren't allowed, can't remember what year the rules changed and we could have over 12s

I’m going to say 89 i maybe wrong

later than that, some time in the late 90s

it could well be

[eliElytraJo]

If anything like Dublin coach ones.
I'm sorry still have nightmares after driving them.
Pure scrap.
How many times you left kildare heading for monasterevan and the door would open about a mile up the road.

[ClayExpert]

Will it go on the shuttle????

[murrayimFox]

Will it go on the shuttle????

of course, 18m maximum on the Shuttle!

[nei2rvomno]

They were always on the spanish shuttles to malgrat and lloret from Germany in the late eighties and nineties

[butchPars]

I have driven one

[ch0mChiro]

I do remember how these things used to fly past the UK coaches in France. The only thing that could pass them were the Welsh Airforce (Ferris)

[Brian+Orion]

I do remember how these things used to fly past the UK coaches in France. The only thing that could pass them were the Welsh Airforce (Ferris)

These were like being passed by a train, not much passed us in our Scania Berkoff 4000. Except the the Welsh airforce. Got them back at Dover homeward, they always got the shed

[redmplers34]

I do remember how these things used to fly past the UK coaches in France. The only thing that could pass them were the Welsh Airforce (Ferris)

that silver berkoff with space shuttle down side they had was a flyer, would blow us off road most sat nights coming back north,

[AndreJ6ay]

Neoplan Megaliner

[housfly]

Looks like something that would've been used in thunderbirds!!

[urban6fink]

The skyliner, sh**e buses

[hendery]

The skyliner, sh**e buses

they was ok or at least some of them were

[urban6fink]

The skyliner, sh**e buses

they was ok or at least some of them were

never liked them

[rhobert-874]

12 metre coaches go back as far as 1970/1 when United Automobile Services and Eastern and Western Scottish took Bristol REMH. Leopards also appeared around the same time. The 12-metre length would be law until the early 2000s. National Express has dispensation to operate three Plaxton Volvos around 2002/3 that had been built at 12.3 metres to accommodate a centre wheelchair lift. Any foreign coach coming in longer was doing so illegally. I did see a four axle Neoplan on occasion in Victoria Coach Station. Traffic Commissioners would turn them, so I was told by one, and return to Dover empty if caught. Not long after 2003 the law would change and bring the UK in line with Europe.

[robert_road]

Got something similar at our place that our boss thinks of selling. Its RHD.

[keithMax]

Think of all those B- windows to clean !!!

[keithMax]

I had an Ex Harry Shaw Skyliner that was like a rocket. It had the Gardner Turbo Eng. would out-pull most vehicles over the Apennines with 70+ people up and luggage at 100 kph it would do just over 1,100 revs and regularly on Rome doing 12 MPG. All ok until they go wrong !!

[JEFF-Platinum]

I remember doing a lot of miles in that beast that little lever on the side was brilliant on the mountains!!

[Cowey4iur]

Seen this discussed before and we had (about 3 years ago) 3 if these registered as on the road in the UK, definitely not practical on our roads as designed to cross the European continent and munch thousands of miles at once, but I’d love a go in one at least.