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Crosville DFG38
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Crosville
Motor Services Ltd Fleet No. DFG38, registration No. 319
PFM. New to
Crosville's Edge Lane Depot, Liverpool in 1961. DFG 38
is a Bristol
FS6G "Lodekka" which used a drop centre rear axle and
offset
transmission to allow the lowering of the lower deck
gangway, which
along with rear air suspension maintains an overall
vehicle height of
13 feet 3 1/4 inches allowing them to pass under low
bridges that had
insufficient clearance for standard double deckers.
DFG38 is fitted with a Gardner 6LW engine and five speed
gearbox, along
with a cave-brown-cave ventilation and heating system
which replaces the
conventional radiator with two radiators on either side
of the
destination blinds, providing warm air flow and
ventilation to the
saloons.
The bus survived as a driver training vehicle into the
1990's passing
into private preservation and then to the Wirral
Transport Museum in
2007. Since then its original registration number has
been restored.
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