After the ending of the WW2 in 1945
more Danish bus companies purchased many coaches with half automatically Wilson gearboxes.
The Wilson-gearboxes was constructed in two different versions; electrically controlled
and pneumatically controlled. Many Danish Leyland-buses was equipped with pneumatically
controlled Wilson-gear boxes also known as Leyland Pneumocyclic. Many Volvo-buses was
equipped with electrically controlled Wilson-gearboxes. After 1975 could the bus companies
only purchase buses with the electrically Wilson-gearboxes.
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Other buses with half automatically
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The Tramways of Copenhagen (Københavns
Sporveje (KS)) purchased 531 pieces of Leyland-buses between 1954 and 1967 with a Leyland
Pneumocyclic half automatically gearboxes. The first buses with under floor engines to the
Tramways of Copenhagen was some AEC-buses and Büssing-buses build by the Danish
coachbuilder DAB in Silkeborg in 1951 and 1952. These AEC-buses and Büssing-buses was
equipped with a half automatically gearboxes. AEC has a 3-step gearbox and Büssing has an
18-step gearbox. The Tramway of Copenhagen purchased 253 more Leyland-busses until 1970
but they was equipped with a full automatically Voith-gearboxes, known as the second
series of Leyland. The first series of Leyland was 300 buses purchased by the Tramway of
Copenhagen between 1964 and 1967, KS no. 960 – 999, 1 - 210 and 212 – 260. The
second series of Leyland-buses of KS has no. 211 and 261 – 510.
Other Danish bus companies purchased
many second series of Leyland-buses until the middle of the 1970´s, most of them equipped
with Leyland Pneumocyclic gearboxes, but few of them was equipped with a electrically
Wilson-gearboxes. The bus company of Randers (Randers Byomnibusser) and the bus owner in
Svendborg Mr. Ernst Hansen purchased these Leyland-buses with an electrically gearboxes.
In the town of Hans Christian Andersen,
Odense, the local bus company, Odense Bytrafik purchased 42 Volvo-buses with half
automatically Wilson-gearboxes between 1952 and 1961. Other bus companies like the
Tramways of Århus (Århus Sporveje) and the bus company of Aalborg (Aalborg Omnibus
Selskab) purchased some Volvo-buses with Wilson gearboxes. All buses from these three
companies were made on Volvo-Chassis types B655, 656 and 657 by Danish coachbuilders like
Aabenraa and Svendborg (SMH until 1955 and NK after 1956).
The Electrically controlled
Wilson-gearboxes were to be very popular by the bus drivers of the Aalborg Omnibus Selskab
were all buses until 1978 has this gearbox-system. Until the middle of the 1980´s was all
buses by the Vejle Bustrafik equipped with Wilson-gearboxes. Between 1973 and 1977 almost
all new buses to the Danish State Railways was equipped with Wilson-gearboxes