a few quick BB questions

[Tom Warner]

Jon sometime in the middle 1970's the GMC motorhome set the worlds
land speed record for motorhome and it still stands for Class A
motorhomes. My understanding is that the motorhome had to be fully
equipped just like it did when it was sold. I believe someone was
sitting on the toilet when it approached 99MPH. Could be that the
Bluebird engineers in all of their genius and wanting a really safe
motorhome wanted to communicate with the person in the "loo" when
they tried to crack that barrier. Could that be possible?

tom warner
Vernon Center,NY
1982 FC35
1985 PT40 with a phone in the "loo"

At 08:49 PM 4/2/2006, you wrote:
>--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "George Witt"
><mrdonut12@...> wrote:
> >
> > --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "birdshill123"
> > wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Bruce,
> > You just really don't understand overkill, do you? :o)
> > I swear, some of the Blue Bird Engineers must have worked on
>the
> > space shuttle, they have so many backup systems.
> > If you have 3 and lose one, it's not a trip-interrupting event.
> > You also get to have separate temperature controls for
>different
> > areas.
> > Mine has the motor driven generator, I took it out and put in a
> > Xantex invertor/charger. The motor driven unit was the best
> > technology available at the time. Many owners update things with
>that
> > in mind on the updates, going to the best available when the update
>is
> > done.
> > Blue Bird's engineering motto was: If some is good, more is
> > better. ;o)
> > My '81 is still an engineering marvel 25 years later and has
>many
> > features even new "other brands" don't have.
> > We had a little get-together here and had 5 Birds show up. We
> > all gave tours of our coaches and wowed the group with the cool
> > features each one had. It's just amazing to see what they put in
> > these things.
> > The one thing that stands out to me from a design standpoint is
> > that it all makes sense and whoever designed these things must have
> > used them a lot to come up with the neat ideas they had.
> > One of my favorites is the ladder to the roof. The top bars go
> > over 5 feet onto the roof. This lets you get horizontal safely
>before
> > you hang one leg down searching for that first step on the ladder.
> > Every other ladder I've seen makes you try to find that step
> > while precariously perched almost upright with little to hang onto.
> > The more Birds you look at, the more awed you'll be by the
>design.
> >
> > George Witt
> > 81 FC 35
> > Lincoln, Nebraska
> >
> >
> > > Why do the older FC's have a 12.5 KW generator? Our Bounder DP
>has a
> > > 7.5 and it sure seems adequate. Why do they use the powerline
>gen. as
> > > well? Did all the FC's use the motor driven gen. or was it an
>option?
> > > Why do many BB's have 3 A/C's? Most coaches use 2 and I have
>never
> > > needed more. I just know that BB had a good reason for more.
> > >
> > > Thanks: Bruce
> > >
>
>Question? why did they install a telephone in the bathroom? Was it in
>case the door got jamed and you couldn't open it from the inside?
>
>
>Jon Lechich
>1978 Wanderlodge
> >
>
>
>
>
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