Английская Википедия:Elizabeth (bus)

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GT2827 Elizabeth is a steam powered combination bus that operates in the English seaside town of Weston-super-Mare, and previously in Whitby.[1]

The vehicle was created in 2002, when a tourism transport operator, the Northern Star Motor Carriage Company, converted a 1931 Sentinel steam-powered DG6P flatbed lorry into a 30-seat bus.[1] It is used to take people on a tour of the town, providing up to ten trips per day over the summer months. It is the only steam bus in revenue-earning service in the world and has become something of a tourist attraction in its own right.[2] In around April 2015 it was purchased by Crosville, a public and heritage bus operator in Weston-super-Mare.[3]

It has two gears, chain transmission, six wheels and ten pneumatic tyres, and a body made from white ash and mahogany.[1] It was a flatbed lorry and then a tar sprayer in its original commercial life, before being bought from a scrapyard for preservation in 1962.[4]

Before the bus could carry fare-paying passengers, it had to undergo a 35° tilt test and required an amendment to legislation since the exhaust was not sited at the rear of the vehicle.[5]Шаблон:Refn In November 2011, it took part in London's Lord Mayor's Show.[6] The journey from Whitby to London, via York, Leeds, Bradford, Burton upon Trent and Rugby was all by Elizabeth's own steam power.

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