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3 hours ago, radish1us said:

Some would have had to stand inside, just like today's buses.

Actually 16 is what the licence for the vehicle said it could  carry, so if you stood a lot of bods at the rear all hanging on,  as well as squeezing a lot more up with the driver, then a few more could be carried.

Only way to make any money was to overload the pax.

 

Oh, it's 8 feet long each seat is inside, so 8 skinny bums down each side, plus another 3 up with the driver equals------

Sure it would have been real cosy on a cold morning and hope like hell nobody dropped their guts, eh.  🙂

Sounds like today's lowfloor buses, sardine cans, miss high floors.

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So cool these old movie reels. 

 

Google says it's called knife board seating because it "resembles a knife board"... Well... if it's on the internet it must be true 😉 

 

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/knifeboard#:~:text=Noun,double-deck omnibuses and trams.

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I think knife board was because they had to sit with their feet on the edge board round the roof edge, but that was only an impression I picked during my searches.

I have to say this is one of the finest models I've ever seen of a horse bus, no b*gger that, one of the finest models period.

I love it, fabulous undergear work too just fabulous.

 

Hope I get half as decent a result. 

 

 

 

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