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    Bus Shite

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    6 hours ago, cms206 said:

    This is the latest of the "show" buses - 12345 is the (third) Selkent Ambassador, 10301 is the MacMillan Cancer Support bus, 11377 is the (current) Spirit of London and now 12400 is the East London Ambassador. It's also Barking's first refurbishment, thankfully without the horrific grey leatherette seating which has been creeping across the fleet. 12400 was painted at Leyton and debuted at Barking 100 on March 23rd.

     

    The 102 is indeed a running number; this is still a London thing, which helps with radio identification also - for example my MDT unit identified me as 102/145 rather than fleet number 12400.

    I am old school and prefer the running numbers on the sides in metal plates. Which to be honest thought they would have been stolen far more than they were.

    The RT in the video is unfortunately a U boat.  It did not have a running number. That was Upon Park garage.

    eBay tat volume 3.

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    Mercedes - Estate - 200 TE Location Belgium.

    With 15 hours to go bids stand at €3800 plus fees of 18% no VAT to pay.

    There is no written discription of the km but the image of the dash says there are 311788kms on the clock.

    https://www.troostwijkauctions.com/en/l/mercedes-estate-200-te-oldtimer-A1-20708-21

    It looks a nice place to be.

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    What gets me the A1 description.

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    Registered in Belgium as a classic car. The standards for station wagons of the W124 model still apply to the current models. A milestone in the automotive industry, model W124 was so innovative in technical, motor, safety, aesthetic and practical terms that many technical gadgets from that time can still be found in the modern car. The Model T certainly did, due to its enormous load capacity and good accessibility, this was pre-eminently the family car and mile-eater of the better representative. Stylish, rock-solid and indestructible. With some minor signs of use and normal wear and tear outside, this 32-year-old beauty is still in top condition, inside the leather interior, the many options such as electric windows, automatic transmission, stereo... etc work perfectly. We'll see you on the viewing days.... and for the Belgian buyer, inspection before sale included

    Changed it back to Dutch which the native language for the website. Still the same old puke coming out of A1's mouth

    Bus Shite

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    Did not know that was a thing. So I went looking. It seems like there is only one bus is that correct? I found videos of it mainly working 238 and one terrible  one on the 145. Shot in portrait, thus making for me, unwatchable.

    It does look smart.

     

    Question, is the 102 in the front window the running number? Do you even have them these days?

    Bus Shite

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    Immaculate elegance - 75 year-old RT2177

    https://youtu.be/lJiXvzdKcc8

    Will not embed.

    This run is to celebrate 100 years of Barking Bus garage.

    from 0:00 to 1:39 I think is along the A12. It is a dual carriageway.

    From 1:40 the video is along Green Lane, Ilford Then at 5:06 right turn into South Park Terrace.

    In "my day" the 145 carried on along Green Lane. The 291 run with RF along South Park Drive. For many years LT wanted to use double deckers, but  the residence of this road objected saying passengers could see into bedroom windows.  That obviously did change.

    https://londonbuses.co.uk/_routes/withdrawn/291-1.html

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/42632508@N02/albums/72157628944144331/with/6727356643

    The end of the video ends when the bus reaches Barking Garage.

    Although there is a lad that does not stop talking and I find irritating I do like that you can see just how hard it was to drive these buses. With no power steering.

    What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

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    9 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

    There used to be something called acting. You pretended to be someone you weren’t. Maybe you were white and portrayed someone who wasn’t , just the same as you pretended to be a doctor or policeman etc when you weren’t.

    Now only black peoples can play black characters and increasingly anyone with a disability can’t be played by someone who doesn’t have that particular illness. OK fair enough but it had to work both ways and there’s too much shoehorning people into historical dramas  where they would never  have been.

    Cue…call me a racist .

    I do not think you understood my post. I said that the colour issue that some countries have  is not an issue.  The colour issue is not limited to the UK  either, there are other European counties with the same thinking.

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