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I had one of those on Poynters in the early 2000s

I do like the unusual Nationals. For a standard bus there were lots of non-standard vehicles. At different ends of the scale, I’ve owned the Greenway and B21 versions, for instance.

Nationals are like ABBA, there are those who like it and those who do but won't admit it. Both are 1970s icons.

Lovely ,the good old LS built like a tank ,wonder if the lynx was the mk3 national if things had not changed with deregulation etc 😊I was lucky in west London we had the LT and greenline /london country ones if you ventured near Staines ,all the best Enjoy your day off Mark 😊😊

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Hi Jake lovely video of beautifully restored buses and vehicles. Dad was interested in knowing the fleet number on the RMA. We've had look on the net, but not been able to find out. Dad thinks it maybe one of RMA's that were used as staff buses at Aldenham and based at the nearby LCBS and LT garages.

What a great place, I could spend days in there!

Never heard of this museum and i am from hudderfield so this will be on my to do list thanks for bringing this to my attention

Great video as always., Jake. Nice to meet your Dad also!

The Arndale Centre in Headingley is indeed still here and there is still a KFC too!

I think we need a full National Bus Museum, that displays vehicles and holds archives for all operators (we have one for Trolleybuses) obviously a lot of local museums also have some "out of area" vehicles - LT RTs in St Helens for example. In London we have two/three (plus Ensign covering South Essex too and North Weald/Epping Ongar Railway) - LT Museum, LT Depot and London Bus Museum - which is co-located out at Brooklands and not easily accessible by bus.

nice tour Jake

Great video, nicely filmed and presented.

My two fav hobbies in one place nice to see dad with you my son have gone to many and it’s a great way to be just you and your son ,as for my dad well (censored) ,you know I didn’t realise WYPTE had metros that one looked great ,I remember the BEA RMs flying over Hammersmith flyover down the A4 my nan said when I was little the kept roast potato’s in the trailer 😂well I was 3 ,all the best mate Mark 😊😊 PS anyone restored a ROE bodied British airways ex BOAC Atlantean they looked impressive too

What a collection of real buses. Appreciated them displaying works in progress as well as the patina jobs awaiting attention.

About badge theft. Get 3D printed repros of the bus badges. Painted in authentic colours, they would look the part, but would be financially worthless.

Hi i'm viatron from Sheffield once again, I remember back in 1982 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, there were a railway sidings at the Ureaka site via the Mersey & Calder Bus Preservation Group who use to own many old vintage buses & coaches at the time. But one night some very bad arsonists had broken into the private railway sidings to torch them via badly destroyed a Park Royal bodied A.E.C. REGENT MK.III [9613A] half cab double deck bus from hasham corporation into a very recked steel skeleton shell via it's beyond repair & that vintage bus were sadly lost forever, plus it had made front page headline news. Thank you for your co-operation on this very sad lost to a vintage half cab double deck bus in Halifax subject from David Viatron Esquire of crookes in Sheffield.

That bad girl cleaned up well. Very tidy unit and that exhaust is on point. Highway diff?

Sometimes it's members of museums who leave a lot to be desired. Cliquey behaviour among themselves between tribes who favour a marque over others and who have differing ideas on what constitutes preserving a bus. Example some insist upon hubcaps even if they ran without them in service, or someone likes period advertisements for that authentic look and others want clean skin and concourse condition. Some are just plain rude towards visitors like they resent them coming. It sounds like your group is none of those problems and has a pleasant and encouraging atmosphere. That needs to be fostered.

Gotta love a luscious Leopard. My last experience was with a 680 engined example on Supreme IV body, unusually with a 4 speed ZF box (a rare option) and 2 speed rear axle. A most pleasant motor.

I’m not a bus expert…but that seems remarkably smooth. I was expecting far worse…wondered about these gearboxes…same kind of thing fitted to the ones I remember in the 1990s…but they were never as smooth as that….possibly not being driven correctly.

Very good, thanks! Well, being American, over here we don't have a very big bus preservation movement, unfortunately. But, the New York City Transit Authority has, thankfully, kept many examples of old, retired buses as part of their museum fleet. Once a year, they have the Brooklyn Bus Festival, the next one is in exactly one week. But it's just not the same after they changed the location - now somewhat difficult to get to and in a smaller, confined area. But it really is great no matter where it is - many young people see buses they have never ridden on - even older people like myself get to sample some GM Old Looks that were before my time.

Intolerant and rude photographers are a big problem and I can't condone them under any circumstances, but I have experienced frustration from behind the lens. On more than one occasion, a thoughtless parent has parked an empty pushchair in front of a bus that I have clearly been trying to photograph, so the absent child could run around some distance away. There needs to be consideration and tolerance of and by all parties.

Routemaster 50 at Finsbury Park RM2 just had its front restored to original me and my son was looking around he was a child then and we got sworn at by these so called enthusiasts clicking away ,cobham 1998 we took a freshly repainted M1048 in London United livery I have some photos if you can tell me how to send them to you ,but even in service I secured my metro up at Camden safeways terminus to have a PNR came back and some passengers got onboard bring me and I was coming off at Hammersmith finished I just said don’t forget to pay 😂,then we had cash fares so my cash tray was in my module bag I took with me ,all the best mate Mark 😊😊

With fuel prices going up, year on year, running days will eventually come to an end.

there used to be lots of these when i first moved to corby in the early 2000s

such a pity this happens Jake

The first six L1s were for Sheffield JOC with Weymann Fanfare bodywork. They hit the road in August 1959, three months before the "official" introduction at the Scottish Motor Show. They were registered as Tiger Cub Specials - as were the next few Sheffield examples. By 1961, they had been reassigned and registered as L1.

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My recollection is that of the beautiful FLF variants, Crosville had a number of black and cream dd coaches. At least as smart as the Eastern National sisters. Who said that Nationalised Companies, when properly run, couldn't outclass the Capitalost firms? Bristol and ECW certainly did!

When I started on the buses, it was the timtronic, but I used a setright on Citylink.

When I started on the buses I used an almex. Brilliant machines.

I drove several marks of the Lodekka, starting with a stick box and then the luxury of a semi-auto with overdrive! The fleet belonged to a hospitality catering company, BUS FARE, based in Cranleigh, Surrey. The vehicles were beautifully converted to suit various clients and were fitted with an 3/4 awning system that effectively formed a pavillion for exhibition space or bar and table seating. One of their clients sponsored formular 1 racing and the buses were often seen at most of the European Grand Prix circuits to provide catering for their guests. The distances we covered were bonkers as we travelled accross Europe. Rain and snow running into the cab on your right leg and first degree burns on the left from the engine housing. Brake fade was always in our minds during several hours of mountain descent. Lower gears of little help either as it would just spin up the transmission until it sounded like a Stukka bomber! Scary too, looking over the edge of some of the mountain bends ( think, Italian Job film) There were often the burned-out remains of artics in the ravines to keep us focussed. Having gone to school on these in Bristol when little, I could never have imagined driving one over/under the Alps when old enough to know better. I do miss it though. Thanks for the informative history. Keep up the good work.

Do we think, engine design has gone backward with buses? I would say so. These powered the MCW coupled to that musical Voith Gearbox proper noise imho and before the low emission stuff. But mechanically miles better than the engines today

Ironically the rectangle headlights age them as do the BMAC 759 tails. Interesting to see the same Scania cone shaped hubs used all the way back then. A nightmare to fit hubodometers to. A New Zealand company makes a four legged hubodometer bracket for them to counter their tendency to be knocked off centre. Even the brake noise emits the same note as 1990s Scanias such as the L113 series. They make an odd whine as they take off from a standing start.

I like the way you present. Been a fan ever since. Keep up the great work!

I remember Birmingham ct had a batch of Ford R192’s with Strachan bodies. The fastest yet uncomfortably noisy bus I have ever been on