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Is this bus powered by Leyland Six Cylinder Naturally Aspirated Diesel Engine?

I used to catch the 120 from Hounslow Heath to Southall and get off at Heston where my grandparents lived…. I was about 10 years old and would sit behind the driver on the outward journey and upstairs at the front on the way back so I could marvel at how the driver took a tight turn at a pub called The Rising Sun and couldn’t believe he didn’t hit the building. Just loved the RT with its pre-select gears and that never to be forgotten sound and smell, if only I could do it one more time I’d be happy.

Congratulation for this top restauration. For me the RT is the non-plus-ultra in buses, and this is an excellent example.

Love the olympian nice bus

Lovely! Thank-you! Please, does anyone know her Garage, and possibly, route, allocation?

Passed my test in one of these

You didn't start the bus before filming making sure it would start to avoid embarrasment did you. Of course you didn't!

M1441 is a Very Rare Metrobus being a Mark 2 also M1441 did have Arriva Livery it was The Cream "Cow Horn" version

Is she still around?

Great job well done

looking good buses

well done for doing it remmber mum rip giving you five pound buy it for hundred 75 pounds mum tina be prowed see her done

love buses love see you still doing it good on yer mick

see you kept 1440 then and now got1441 nice

looking good

Nice tickover 😊

Beautiful to see. Thank you for sharing 😊

I would love to buy a bus but no where to store it!

What happened about the number 38 bus parked in the corner

Have u still got them

vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/VehicleFound?locale=en UK gov thinks this bus was built in 1969!!🤣

I remember the RTs on the 119 bus route to school.

My family emigrated to Cape Town from London in 1958 when I was a toddler. But when I went to school I used to catch an RT to and from school every day as Cape Town's "Golden Arrow" Bus Service used to run them. I remember the smells, the sounds, the feel of the window winders, the wood blocks on the platform, the white tape on the poles, the sound of the conductor's ticket punch as he hit it against the poles calling "fares please", the huge leather money pouch and ticket machine on his waist, so many things. I remember hiding in the suitcase compartment under the stairs when I had lost my huge one penny bus fare. RT's, red phone boxes, Big Ben and black London taxis are global symbols of London. You only realise how important they are in one's life when you have spent a big chunk of it away. I came home to London in 2000 and one of the first things I did was ride the number 10 which, at least then, was still an RT.

I,like your green line bus she looks good

That unmistakeable rhythmic whine when in neutral.

Nice to see the engines Mike.👍🏻👍🏻

Didn’t we have something “unique” in the world. Buses like the RT and the RM fully overhauled every four years at ALDENHAM bus overhaul works. Built by AEC and PARK ROYAL VEHICLES. Something to be Proud of❤️

Do still have MCW in UK for bus services now?

Back in 1980 I used to visit the Woolwich Bus Preservation Group. Loved the ambience of the place, a bit like yours. It was in a quite location, the smell of grease, oil, paint and diesel fumes. There were RTs and RF's old LT vehicles, some in good shape others needing a lot of attention. In the quiet summer sun, there were birds whistling and a peace about the place with all this London Transport history around me. It was a very exciting, captivating sort of place. They acquired RM 58, I remember and I took some photos of it, which I still have. Thanks for showing us your buses.

Long time no see Mike 👍🏻

Which is first RTL? Confusing. Is it RTL 501 (JXC 20) or RTL 1 (JXN 313)? It's supposed to be RTL 501 but why?

Looks like the mk2 could have been on the Ensign Bus fleet. It has the exact livery.

I'm pleased to see M1441 exists, I drove her several times whilst she was at Bath Bus Co; working the Glastonbury festival shuttles. Have loads of memories of it being a good bus to drive.

RT's, a head above RM's, I loved them and RF's, hated the RM gearbox, you never knew when it would change, power steering was good but the gearbox let it down, passed PSV in Chiswick March 1971. Whatever happened to LUC 1 registration RT, I always used to look out for it on the route between Shepherd's Bush and Staines 117. That number must be worth a fortune.

I took the 65 between kingston and Richmond many a time through the 60s and 70s

Michael l can't hear you very well , can you clip the microphone on your shirt or can you include Subtitles ,many thanks from Melbourne, Australia 😂

Leylnad O600 sounds stronger than AEC AV590

Hi Guy's my name is Mr Cannadine T. Boxill-Harris I was wondering, why couldn't you Rebuild a nice fresh shiny Gardner 6LXCT Gardner 6LXC and Volvo TD102KF 3 speed Voith DIWA Northern Counties Palatine 1’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 168, 125, 173, 179, 167, 313 and also the bus route 103, if you guys would like to Rebuild about 93 Gardner 6LXCT Gardner 6LXC and Volvo TD102KF 3 speed Voith DIWA Northern Counties Palatine 1’s please could you Repaint them in the Exact Grey Green Bus Colour’s and put them on those 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 Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very 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 Gardner 6LXCT Gardner 6LXC and Volvo TD102KF 3 speed Voith DIWA Northern Counties Palatine 1’s Please.

Hi Guy's my name is Mr Cannadine T. Boxill-Harris I was wondering, why couldn't you Rebuild a nice fresh shiny Volvo D10A Cummins L10 Scania N230UD and Gardner 6LX 4 Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Enviro 400 MMC’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 77 Volvo D10A Cummins L10 Scania N230UD and Gardner 6LX 4 Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Enviro 400 MMC’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 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 Volvo D10A Cummins L10 Scania N230UD and Gardner 6LX 4 Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Enviro 400 MMC’s Please?

Hi Guy's my name is Mr C. T. Boxill-Harris I was wondering, why couldn't you find a nice fresh shiny Leyland Titan B15'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, 125, 167, 168, 298, 173, 179, 313 and also the bus route 103, if you guys would like to find about 13 Leyland Titan B15's, please could you Repaint them in the Exact Grey Green Bus Colour's for us because it would be a 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 the Leyland Titan B15's Please?

I always adores the rt like the rm they always are amazing to see than the bridge master tho its a shame nobody cares oldies anymore

Remember when we build beautiful solid well made stuff like these with skill and craftmanship? Your plastic crap these days certainly wouldn't last 40 years like this.

I used to drive RMs in service but they had Scania engines by then.

I've just come across your channel Michael and the restoration of the RT is absolutely superb. SO many memories of travelling on an RT when they were sadly on the way out in the 70s, I adored the gearbox whine and the sound of the RT AEC engine ticking over, even the sound when they approached a bus stop! I have nothing but admiration for your expertise! Thank you for preserving your collection of RTs and RTLs, not to mention the Routemasters!

Hope your well Micheal.

Nice

Great video. Fantastic bus. What kind of light is the one low-moubted headlight on the front passenger side near the bottom of the radiator grille? Is it a fog light, a curve light, or something else?

love that leyland olympian you've got, when i was at school back in the 1980's arriva or northumbria as they were back then got some F reg of these & they were lovely buses & the cummings engine was lovely, such a sweet sounding machine compared to all other buses they'd been previously using & it had some power as well, they were a fantastic bus to ride in

nice

And there is a LT there they have got RF classic buses they got a couple of RM and a load of RML route master buses and they have got a RMC two of them okay So if you’d like to check them out feel free to go down