Setras through the years

[Iceni John]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKA1VCpRMcE
I just found this wonderful (apart from the music!) clip of Setra buses from 1958 and 1967.   Watch the Golden Eagles being shipped as deck cargo on a Dutch steamer to the USA  -  wow.   Didn't those ones originally have MAN engines?   Seeing cars again that I originally saw when I lived in Bremen in the late 50s and in Rotterdam in the 60s brought back a flood of memories:  life was good then.   I rode in a few 1960s Setras and umpteen Mercedes O.302 buses on many trips to Austria in the early 1970s, and I was impressed how quiet and smooth those buses were, even by modern standards;  some years later I also rode some Setras and Magirus-Deutz and many Mercedes buses when I went overland to India in the halcyon days when it was still possible, and there are even a few of them in service in Afghanistan to this day!   I wonder if in decades from now folk will be looking at films of old 2020s MCIs and Prevosts and wonder what life was like then?

John

[CrabbyMilton]

Wow!! That was neat and Thank You so much for posting that. Interesting looking buses over there and I was struck by some of that rural scenery. Amazing how many buses had those cast spoke type wheels and now you almost never see them now. Fortunately, SETRA(MERCEDES BENZ) still builds buses for the American market. Oh I'm sure future generations will look back at current MCI, PREVOST, VAN-HOOL, SETRA and the rest and have comments. Things are moving toward all electric in some form so they may think to the effect..."They actually used diesel engines in those? But time will tell. We must remember that while there were things in the old days that were great, we have to ask if they were so great then why don't they exist now?

[lvmci]

Split rims?

[CrabbyMilton]

Not always. The "DAYTON" wheels I'm talking about had both split rims and one piece. "BUDD" wheels also had multi piece.

[Jim Blackwood]

Loved the guys in the white dresses at the end. 

[CrabbyMilton]

Bruce Jenner's dad HEHE? I caught the one articulated bus belching a puff of smoke as if it were almost on cue for the camera toward the beginning. Those dirty brown one's with the dual axles in the trailer section.