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Offline Otto Puzzell

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Bus-load o' Fun #533
« on: October 20, 2013, 06:33:03 AM »
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2013, 05:29:42 AM »
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2013, 04:14:22 AM »
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2013, 07:19:40 AM »
experiments with plastic?
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2013, 08:30:04 AM »
The builder hoped to leverage a different type of 'innovation'.
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2013, 02:26:27 PM »
Is it a Westinghouse design?
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2013, 02:30:24 PM »
No sir
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2013, 02:31:42 PM »
alternative fuel?
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2013, 02:34:04 PM »
It didn't use fuel
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2013, 02:36:59 PM »
was it powered by compressed air?
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2013, 03:26:26 PM »
Is it a gyrobus?
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2013, 03:31:01 AM »
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #12 on: November 05, 2013, 03:31:19 AM »
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #13 on: November 05, 2013, 06:27:17 AM »
did it have its own source to propel the vehicle?
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #14 on: November 05, 2013, 09:26:18 AM »
Yes. Note: I typed 'innovation' in quotes before because the power source was hardly new when this bus was built.
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #15 on: November 05, 2013, 09:32:45 AM »
electric engine?
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #16 on: November 05, 2013, 10:48:15 AM »
An hydrogen bus ?
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #17 on: November 05, 2013, 11:33:08 AM »
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #18 on: November 05, 2013, 11:33:18 AM »
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #19 on: November 05, 2013, 12:10:49 PM »
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #20 on: November 05, 2013, 12:39:20 PM »
Not solar.
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #21 on: November 05, 2013, 12:43:13 PM »
Otis Electrobus Model 20 MBS from 1974

It was a 20-passenger low-platform battery-driven bus for shuttle services. A single 72-volt battery mounted in the rear and arranged for quick exchange by means of a fork-lift was connected to a DC traction motor rated at 50 hp.
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Re: Bus-load o' Fun #533
« Reply #22 on: November 06, 2013, 06:12:27 AM »
That's it. The puzzle pic was an Electrobus (Otis Elevator Co. - Electrobus Division) that was being evaluated in 1973 in Boca Raton FL, for use in greater Palm County. I don't know if they bought them or not. Your pic is, I believe, an example that made it into the fleet in New York City.

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