Oversized external doors

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Oversized external doors Apr 3, 2007 21:35:05 GMT

Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2007 21:35:05 GMT

I've always wondered, why are the doors on the 92/95/96TS which are external ones far larger than the actual size of the doorway? You can see the amount of "excess" by looking at the dirt streaks on the inside of the doors when they open!

The best comparision I could make is Hong Kong's M-stock made by the same old Metro-Cammell which the external doors are around the same width as the doorways itself.

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Oversized external doors Apr 15, 2007 10:00:12 GMT

Post by 100andthirty on Apr 15, 2007 10:00:12 GMT

The operating mechanism is under the seat and operates the door via an arm that's connected to a shaft that goes through the bodyside. As there's a pillar either side of the doorway to restore the strength lost by cutting a ruddy great hole in it (the doorway!), the shaft has to be some way back from the edge of the doorway. When the design was first developed we decided to cover the external arm. This design had been used elswhere (eg Boston) and the arm had not been covered. It was seeing that design that persuaded us that it needed to be covered!

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