A ride on a Midland Red S12

This is a short ride from Wythall to the Maypole on BMMO S12 3744, NHA744. Midland Red were pioneers in using underfloor engines, and S12 is an early design - it's hard to see on the video, but the hinged entrance door isn't at the edge of the bus at the bottom of the steps but behind the driver as one enters the saloon.
3744 has a tricky crash gearbox - I omitted the part where the driver lost all gears and had to come to a standstill! And apologies for the chatty people just to my right.

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Hi i'm viatron from Sheffield, well this is the one & only home made underfloor engined single deck bus built by Midland Red or B.M.M.O. via being the second type of it's kind & known as the B.M.M.O. S12 version which has a David Brown 4-speed helical gearbox via being based on a German built Z.F. APHON type of the late-1930s, plus being used in the 1938 S.O.S. SALOON ONWARD SON-II half cab version via it were unusually mounted slightly offset to the nearside of the home made bus chassis what there is only two still in existence including one from Midland Red & the other one from Trent Motor Traction both in very good condition via having a S.O.S./B.M.M.O. K-TYPE 8 litre 6-cylinder diesel engines. Thank you for your co-operation on this very special vintage home made Midland Red buses subject from David Viatron Esquire of crookes in Sheffield.

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At last a video on board a Midland Red S model. It's taken a long time and what a joy to travel on a true Midland Red for so many people living outside double-decker operations. Apart from Shrewsbury and Kidderminster most of my bus travel was on S6 and S10,12s. Thank you for this video and many more, please. Note how little rattling in the inside is a lesson for modern bus engineers as they rattle and bang like an old galvanised bucket full of nails.....bloody disgraceful considering the unit costs.☺☺☺☺