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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2007 9:47:24 GMT
So there I am sitting on the westbound side of East Acton station waiting for a train when an unusually clean eastbound rolls in and I see Kawasaki stickers all along the running gear. As I own a Kawasaki with considerably less wheels, I wonder if somebody out there can enlighten me as to which bits of these trains are manufactured by the same company as made my bike. Cheers.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2007 10:50:12 GMT
As far as I'm aware just the bogies are made by Kawasaki. Kawasaki make quite a lot of trains in the Far East, for example the Singapore MRT has a large fleet of Kawasaki built trains.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2007 16:45:03 GMT
Hong Kong has some Kawasaki light rail trains the size of "supertrams".
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2007 20:30:34 GMT
Kawasaki also made NY City Subway cars for the IRT line in the 1980s. They also made fighter planes in WWII, and they still make ships and lawnmower engines, among other things.
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Post by tubeprune on Jan 4, 2007 20:35:19 GMT
Personally, I am not impressed with the Kawasaki bogies. They were not up to the job. The design of the traction motor fixings were poor - although, to be fair, the gearboxes were worse.
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Post by District Dave on Jan 4, 2007 20:52:41 GMT
(light hearted reply)....
The last Kawasaki I rode was 750 cc and I saw 183 mph on the clock coming down off the mountain on the Isle of Man in 1989.
The underwear never recovered!
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Post by Oracle on Jan 4, 2007 21:01:41 GMT
Kwackerzappi still make helicopters. I never did get to ride a Kwacker bike...I was a Honda man, with Ariel and Yamaha as well. I regret that although I have flown a Cessna 182 turbo at 183 over the English Channel, I have never been anywhere near that fast on the road. 125 up the Bournemouth Spur Road in a Porsche 911 Turbo was my fastest.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2007 21:12:57 GMT
183mph on a 750cc bike?!  Well, it's one way to scare yourself I suppose!! Sam |
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Post by Tubeboy on Jan 5, 2007 17:57:49 GMT
Once rode round a warehouse on a pallet truck, someone came out of nowhere, I fell over, couldn't catch my breath for a while! I must have been doing  ?? 15Mph ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2007 22:35:37 GMT
I hope you held the correct licensing and had completed the Mandatory Training Programme to operate that piece of equipment!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2007 3:31:30 GMT
is it like siemens the electrical company and rolling stock manufacturer or bombardier who seem to make pretty much anything that goes from a to b. p.s never had a kwak, only a yamaha and a suzi
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2007 7:37:08 GMT
Kawasaki is one of those companies that seem to make everything, often through aquisitions of other businesses.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2007 15:15:44 GMT
Once rode round a warehouse on a pallet truck, someone came out of nowhere, I fell over, couldn't catch my breath for a while! I must have been doing ?? 15Mph ;D 15 mph in a warehouse is actually quite a quick speed. I used to fly around on my reach truck in my previous job....that was good fun. I miss the trucks sometimes...we had 12 old style Lansing R20 trucks (2000 kg capibility) and 10 (when I worked there) brand spanking new Lansing R16 trucks (1600 kg capibility)....those new ones flew!!! I reckon some (no lie) could go around the 20mph mark, which in a warehouse (despite the fact where I worked, when built was the biggest warehouse in Western Europe ) is pretty scary!!!!!!! |
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