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[LightBulbFun]

50 minutes ago, Yoss said:

Funnily enough I'd thought about doing that to my Triumph. Mainly because I have mismatching seats in mine and I thought it would look nice with RM moquette in it. You can buy the moquette new again now and I figured if I found somebody having their bus retrimmed there might enough left over to do a car, you wouldnt need much for a car. Then I thought I might as well do the door trims and seat edging in maroon and from there it spiralled out of control into painting it red with a white stripe. Luckily it's all in my head and very likely to stay there. 

hah funnily enough I was wondering the other day how it would look and how much it would cost to have REV's seat (or well a Model 70 seat base and cushion, as id probably try and keep REV's original set to one side) retrimmed in Routemaster seat moquette/fabric  

(I have always wanted one of those Routemaster seat moquette trimmed bits of furniture, like an arm chair that the London Transport museum sell, but holy hell are they expensive!)

and I was thinking it would be a fun way to not only add a bit of a personal touch to REV without radically changing the physical layout of things, and a way to have a bit of Routemaster in my car  

22 minutes ago, quicksilver said:

Check out www.ltsv.com for plenty more on London Transport (and other operators') service vehicles but make sure you set aside a few hours to explore all the weird and wonderful stuff there. There's an explanation for all the non-London registrations - those vehicles were leased and seemed to be registered all over the country.

ah cool  ill be sure to check that out in a bit!

[Yoss]

30 minutes ago, quicksilver said:

Check out www.ltsv.com for plenty more on London Transport (and other operators') service vehicles but make sure you set aside a few hours to explore all the weird and wonderful stuff there. There's an explanation for all the non-London registrations - those vehicles were leased and seemed to be registered all over the country.

Okay, that was fun. I was only there five minutes and found these. 

 

And this Chevette has the roof roundel. How much do I want one of those? I bet they just binned them all. 

 

[cms206]

Backshift tonight, 2230ish finish.

DAZ 1522 was new to Stansted Transit as KX08 HLU.

[cms206]

6 hours ago, ETCHY said:

Yep the  citybus recovery truck is a "block of flats" Leyland Marathon. Basically a cash strapped Leyland lash up to try & compete with foreign competition.

I have always really liked the Marathon, it's somehow cool.

I saved a screenshot of this from facebook ages ago which made me giggle somewhat...

[ETCHY]

10 minutes ago, cms206 said:

I saved a screenshot of this from facebook ages ago which made me giggle somewhat...

Ta for that interesting to read & the 26 mile thing is quality ! Yeah I'd heard they could be either good or bad (Leyland products were often like that). 

I do like the rather odd ball looks though.

[Eyersey1234]

26 minutes ago, cms206 said:

Backshift tonight, 2230ish finish.

DAZ 1522 was new to Stansted Transit as KX08 HLU.

Chodtastic coach, which chassis is it? 

[cms206]

2 hours ago, Eyersey1234 said:

Chodtastic coach, which chassis is it? 

Volvo B12B with i-Shift 'box. Only 400k miles on this one, my shift bus is the same spec but two years older and it's on 980k miles.

[Zelandeth]

29 minutes ago, cms206 said:

Volvo B12B with i-Shift 'box. Only 400k miles on this one, my shift bus is the same spec but two years older and it's on 980k miles.

B12B, nice.  i-Shift.  Nope, nope, nope, nope...Made an absolute arse of myself the first time I drove a bus with that gearbox.  Made the assumption of "nice shiny new coach, that gap is plenty big enough..." - yet discovered that it actually got off the mark slower than the Bedford Y series I've probably spent the most hours in!  Think I was in fourth gear by the time I had actually "fully left" the station!

[Eyersey1234]

1 hour ago, cms206 said:

Volvo B12B with i-Shift 'box. Only 400k miles on this one, my shift bus is the same spec but two years older and it's on 980k miles.

We used to have B12Bs with Panther bodywork and i-Shift gearbox. 

[LightBulbFun]

7 hours ago, quicksilver said:

Check out www.ltsv.com for plenty more on London Transport (and other operators') service vehicles but make sure you set aside a few hours to explore all the weird and wonderful stuff there. There's an explanation for all the non-London registrations - those vehicles were leased and seemed to be registered all over the country.

10PM: "alright got a nice cup of hot chocolate lets check scope out this website, Oh Look its 1:30AM"

and I have just been looking at all the cars on there not even touched the other vehicles yet*, particular highlight for me so far has been all the surprising amount of FX4's dressed up in various bus liveries, used as crew shuttles  

http://www.ltsv.com/sv2/pic_view.php?selpic=1428

 

*well I did just run across this which shares a registration close to the Prototype Routemasters

http://www.ltsv.com/sv2/pic_view.php?selpic=2885

[martc]

10 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

10PM: "alright got a nice cup of hot chocolate lets check scope out this website, Oh Look its 1:30AM"

and I have just been looking at all the cars on there not even touched the other vehicles yet*, particular highlight for me so far has been all the surprising amount of FX4's dressed up in various bus liveries, used as crew shuttles  

http://www.ltsv.com/sv2/pic_view.php?selpic=1428

 

*well I did just run across this which shares a registration close to the Prototype Routemasters

http://www.ltsv.com/sv2/pic_view.php?selpic=2885

Barclays Doctor Brown Ale can be enjoyed accompanied by a Dentist Fag...

[Inspector Morose]

Over the past months I've been doing a bit of scanning of my old prints. Sadly the majority have been damaged beyond repair by the conditions I'm now having to keep them so I've been rescuing what I can.

Let's start with a trip to Wrexham at some point in the last 25 years (No, I never dated my photos - what do you want, me to be organised?)

 

The Wrights National was later sold on to Chase where I drove and repaired it on many occasion.

 

[Inspector Morose]

How about a trip to one of the Winkleigh open days of the past?

 

[Inspector Morose]

Many spare days were spent in Sheffield soaking up Northern Bus with their heady mix of REs plus the other oddities running around (Warning this is a big post).

 

[LightBulbFun]

5 minutes ago, Inspector Morose said:

 

5 minutes ago, Inspector Morose said:

nice pair of GEC Z8128 Clearmain Difractor lanterns in view there  very much would love to get one for the collection some day!

 

[Inspector Morose]

Yeah, you get it, I like Nationals too. So much so that when I had an operation, we operated a good number of them. Occasionally we bought the odd interloper and operated the occasional demo but mainly it was Nationals all the way down. The end came when I went on holiday and one of the partners in the operation (I was still but a spotty youth then) sold to WMT and fucked off with the cash. Ah, happy times they were, we only burned down once!

 

[LightBulbFun]

13 minutes ago, Inspector Morose said:

Yeah, you get it, I like Nationals too. So much so that when I had an operation, we operated a good number of them. Occasionally we bought the odd interloper and operated the occasional demo but mainly it was Nationals all the way down. The end came when I went on holiday and one of the partners in the operation (I was still but a spotty youth then) sold to WMT and fucked off with the cash. Ah, happy times they were, we only burned down once!

 

Like for the Nationals (especially the one being driven so hard its doing a 2CV impression) and not the Burning down or money fucking off bits!

 

[Out Run]

I always wanted a Repowered by Volvo badge for my Volvo 360 when it was converted from 2.0 carb to 2.3i turbo. I remember them from Leyland Atlantean’s etc in the 90s.

Anyone got a pic?

[LightBulbFun]

30 minutes ago, Out Run said:

I always wanted a Repowered by Volvo badge for my Volvo 360 when it was converted from 2.0 carb to 2.3i turbo. I remember them from Leyland Atlantean’s etc in the 90s.

Anyone got a pic?

at 1:27 in you can get a good view of one in @dollywobbler's video on a Leyland national  

 

[busmansholiday]

It's around 50 years ago I started photographing buses, must start scanning some and putting them on here (and I remember seeing a piano front ex Reading (I think) Regent in a Barnsley scrapyard and being told it's yours for £50. My parents wouldn't give me the money for some reason!).

[cms206]

Turkish Delight tonight - one of the issues with being the last bus out is you can and do get hit with whatever's in.

For those of a non-bus disposition, this is a Euro 6 Temsa Safari HD12.

[Out Run]

1 hour ago, LightBulbFun said:

at 1:27 in you can get a good view of one in @dollywobbler's video on a Leyland national  

 

That’s the one! Awesome badge.

[martc]

2 hours ago, Inspector Morose said:

 

'C'mon ladies, scream if you wanna go faster'

[Inspector Morose]

More pictures? Well, why the hell not.

This time it is down to Salisbury for the end of the Series 2 Bristol VRT running day. (Catchy title, huh?). As a series 2 VRT owner at the time, I thought it was a good idea to go and make myself known just in case there were any spares going cheap. Oh yes, and take some photos.

 

[Inspector Morose]

Oh yes, I had a VRT.

Say hello to my NOB. It was the earliest WMPTE VRT left intact and so on selling my shortened Ford, I partnered up and bought this from an operator in Anglesea. The day before picking it up he managed to reverse it into his single deck sized garage and reshape the rear so he generously knocked £100 off the bill. We bought it back and rallied it for a while as it was before pulling it apart for rear end treatment and getting it back to WMPTE spec. Sadly over exuberance with my later purchase of other vehicles and the cost of their storage and restoration caused me to become totally brassic and forced to sell the lot to satisfy numerous bills. Lovely people bus preservationists were, I still to this day receive threats and slander for having the temerity to put my life before buses and bail. I don't do preservation any more.

 

[Inspector Morose]

I'll end tonight with some random buses in Manchester (and Bury).

 

[clayts450]

I am just loving all these photo compilations - keep em coming folks.

[busmansholiday]

1 hour ago, Inspector Morose said:

Lovely people bus preservationists were, I still to this day receive threats and slander for having the temerity to put my life before buses and bail. I don't do preservation any more

Been there, got the T shirt, had it autographed, know what you mean.

[jon.k]

What a great lot of photos. What is the weird dart thing with a leyland badge one from the bottom, please?

[jon.k]

Or the one above that for that matter!