The Class 142 Pacer units show how an ingenious piece of engineering can still still be seen as a failure.  The 1970s US Transbus programme was an enormously ambitious and expensive effort to transform bus urban bus travel yet is virtually forgotten today.  The Yellow Coach rear-engined double-decker was a rare example of something that could truly be said to be ahead of its time.

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The Class 142 Pacers

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The US Transbus programme

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The Yellow Coach 720 and 735

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Leyland National gallery