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Great going along for the ride alan . Thanks for sharing ❤

That engine sounds strong and healthy! Fired up straight away and didn't miss a beat!

That’s a great restoration job , silly question but are you going to clean up and restore the dashboard and control side ?

As soon as i heard that engine idle, it brought back to my school days in the 60s. The 177 from Abbey Wood to my school at Charlton. Mother was a clippie at Abbey Wood, on the 161a, then the 180, and on to the 177 all the way to Blackfriars Embankment. LOVE IT.

"Errrgh, didn't like that. Felt horrible 🤢". Loved that bit 😅😅😅👍!

Anything like this is right up my street. Fantastic! Great stuff!😊

What a good old girl this bus is great in looks you can't beat a this old girl she's the best

Great video but...select gear then release hand brake. Likewise, hand brake then in to neutral. RM's in the original configuration can be driven as auto or semi auto, like the BL class and a few others. From a gear in to neutral then in to the next gear is the correct way.

Come on Alan! let's see more Routemaster action, hope your ok.

Climbing out of the cab forwards. No! No! No! You never saw a service driver do that, nor any professional trick driver today.

Lovely video bought back many happy memories , I wish you all the best in keeping her on the road 👍🇬🇧

With practice you could quickly flick up through the gears,going down you paused in neutral and gave it a rev. Driving in automatic was boring and was more Jerry and was not appreciated by your conductor or "clippy".

Rip

i love these old buses, up north i remember traveling to school on a bristol lodeka, (also painted red) which are very simlar to the routemaster, esp the lodeka,s with the rear entry that had a manual folding door in two halfs that was rairly ever closed even in winter, there were single bristol lodekas aswell, but we mainly allways had the double deckers on for school, another differance i remember was a long bench seat behind the driver that faced the oppisate way, both styles to me are lovely in design & as far as i,m concerned they look like a bus should look, where as today, i dont know what they look like, esp todays single decker buses that look as though they.ve came out of a sausage making machine, cos they have no shape or form & you can hardly tell the differance from front to back, god knows whos designed them.. enjoyed all your videos btw.

I drove the RM and RML late seventies and eighties out of Tottenham bus garage AR they were nice machines we then had to go on the Metro bus much easier to drive but just wasn’t the same

What a lovely old bus, built to last forever, engine runs on just above tickover through all the gears, you can keep all your modern eco boom plastic engines that will be lucky to do 90,000 miles

Handbrake neutral, not neutral handbrake

Check water level with the engine running.

much too quick

Thank you. My late father drove these in the 60s in london out of kilburn and battersea garages. His view from the cab would have been different though.

Hello Alan, been a while since you posted a video, I am sure we are all concerned and hope all is well, I live in Wisbech and came through your village a week ago and saw your RM parked at home , hope you are well. Dave.

Do you know Pete and his bus?

on these busses how do you change the destination blinds

Lovely!!!

And to think I sold my one :-/

Is this semi automatic manual transmission with automatic clutch ? We never had this in mass production in Germany, only manual transmission, oder Automatic Transmission with TorqueConverter.

I now realise that it could be worse, my neighbours only have works vans and a motorhome.... Jealous of your reversing ability as I struggle to reverse my Viva into my (wide) driveway and have given up even attempting to reverse it into the garage 😓

Hello Alan I've been checking out the bus and what a great idea running fish and chips, when are gonna load up a new video 👍

Lovely gear changes there. May have been mentioned before. Maybe work on the downward changes. Same as upward changes but with a blip on the accelerator in neutral. Rather like double de clutching with a manual gearbox. Keep the videos coming. Thoroughly enjoyed. 😊

Just love that video thanks for sharing

Alan mate! What you been up to? Hope this message finds you well. Hope to hear from you soon. Enjoyed your videos! Danny in america

Great video 😊

I didn't see you complete a daily walk round check

I had my first drive of a Routmaster the other day. Loved it, So much more fun then the moden things we have to drive these days. I want one. Sadly i can't aford one and i've no where to park one.

Will you be making anymore videos?

Very good alan,👍🇬🇧

Wonderful 👍

That was great. reversing perfect no shunts

Your gear changes are so much better

I used drive these in service. We were taught to just leave the bus in 4th position let it change gear 2 3 4 by itself.

Greetings from Germany from Aleksandar, Is it for sale? Or do you know where I could buy such a bus?

Wonderful.... Thank you.

Lovely, beautiful ❤

RIP Alan, thanks for all the videos

That's what you call PROPER bus driving

reminds me of the on the buses film, (for a year 27 year old chap) love the videos mate

I don't know what I'd do with it but I'd love a Routemaster or even an Atlantean!

R.I.P Alan

As someone who's in their late 50's,that sound is so nostalgic,that lazy diesel engine,the gearbox whine,what i'd give to own one (sad bastard)

Hi Guy's my name is Mr Cannadine T. Boxill-Harris I was wondering, why couldn't you Rebuild a nice fresh shiny Leyland TL11 Volvo TD102KF Cummins L10 Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 6LX 4 Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Alexander RH’s and Repaint them to a Grey Green Colour's just like the original Scania Grey Green's which were in the East London bus route's such as 24, 168, 125, 173, 179, 167, 313 and also the bus route 103, if you guys would like to Rebuild about 91 Leyland TL11 Volvo TD102KF Cummins L10 Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 6LX 4 Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Alexander RH’s please could you Repaint them in the Exact Grey Green Bus Colour's and put them on the London Bus Routes witch are the 341, N41, 34, 123, N29, 149, 221, N73, 121, 86, 30, 262, 147, 396, 41 and N26 for us because it would be a Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Interesting Buses to see them Repainted to a Grey Green Colour's and I'am a Big Fan of all of those Leyland TL11 Volvo TD102KF Cummins L10 Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 6LX 4 Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Alexander RH’s Please?