Ep7: AEC Routemaster London Bus Restoration - Replacing Window Rubbers & TV Work.
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- We own a fleet of vintage red London buses, each one the iconic AEC Routemaster London bus. Built in the 1960's they all need constant attention, so if you want to find out what it takes to keep a London bus on the road then make sure you check out our maintenance videos...
In this episode the Routemaster 4 Hire team find the window rubbers are leaking and they get a bus ready for some TV work!
Here is the seventh in a series of videos following the restoration and repair of an AEC Routemaster London double decker bus. RM1214 is the latest AEC Routemaster to join the Routemaster4Hire fleet, but before she can carry passengers again we need to undertake some long overdue work on this iconic double-decker bus.
Please subscribe to our channel @Routemaster 4 Hire to follow our progress as we get this 58 year old bus fit to carry passengers again.
Also don't forget to check out our other videos of AEC Routemaster RM1214's restoration on this playlist...
• London Bus Restoration...
As promised here is the link to the membership page of The Routemaster Association should you wish to join...
routemaster.org.uk/users/memb...
About Us:
Website: www.routemaster4hire.co.uk
Based in Wrexham, North Wales and Serving Cheshire, the North West, North Wales and North Shropshire we are an independent family run business; we are proud to have the privilege of owning one of London’s most recognisable sights - the iconic London Routemaster Double Decker Bus!
Our beautifully restored red London double-decker buses are available for Weddings and Special Events, they add some nostalgic novelty and a touch of class to any occasion.
All our buses are the iconic Routemaster London Double-Decker bus; each vehicle has been beautifully restored back to the original 1960's condition. With immaculate paint and bodywork, they are real head-turners. Inside they are equally pleasing with comfortable re-upholstered seats and authentic 1960s colour scheme; the interior paintwork is complemented by varnished wooden floors and tungsten lighting which create a warm homely glow inside the bus.
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Good tip about the WD40!
Leave them on, thy look spot on 👍
I'm watching your videos as I'm a retired bus driver after 30 years in the business.
Hi David, Just enjoyed watching episode 7. I would recommend leaving the adverts on if the film company has no further need for them. It adds additional character to the bus.
Certainly keep the side adverts ... but I must pick you up on the destination blinds ... I do not recall ever seeing 'VICTORIA STN' on a Routemaster and I think you will find that if your film makers wish to remain authentic they ought to revert to 'VICTORIA'. Just a thought but worth researching I think.
You are correct Rowley, unfortunately we had no say on the design/wording as these were done by the TV production company.
Just found this site. Great. I drove these things and the RT out of Catford garage (TL) when I left the army. I love them. Ref your question. Yes, leave the adverts on, it’s not a London Routemaster without adverts.
When I think of a double decker bus, I imagine it with adverts on the side. I love the look with them on
I so understand the smell thing and the look thing. What you need tho' is some internal adverts, period or up to date. Hell even sell advertising space on /in the bus.
Definitely keep the ads !!.... I'd love to see you with a Greenline RCL for your longer trips, with your love and care it would be amazing !
Hi ( roly ) the adds look good in place ,it’s the finishing touch👍
Thanks for doing this Videos!
Glad you like them!
I love the decals on a bus, If I do ever own one I will defo be putting adverts on it.
Definitely keep the adverts & add the corner ones at front and rear too!
I like the way You said "It's MY bus! I'll do what I like!" I must admit, I like the way you put the rexine on that advert panel. Keep up the excellent work!
I have just come accrossed your video regarding RM1214 what a treat to watch your videos. I will watch all other videos you have made. Long live AEC.
Thanks Iain. Welcome aboard!
Watneys! What a hangover with that stuff LOL! Keep them, they are cool and look authentic!
Hah! Watneys is certainly NOT what I want! Personally, I do not like advertisements on buses. Operators should have more pride than to turn their buses into mobile hoardings.
@@allenwilliams1306 ways of making money... that's business.
@@theflyingfool By the same token, why don't we all flog off the spaces for ads on our cars, then? It could be done, easily. Wrap our cars in ads for Nike trainers, or airlines, like black cabs do. We don't because it looks tacky, and identifies us as money-grubbers. Same with bus operators. Are they such, or do they take a pride in their function, to serve the public?
@@allenwilliams1306 I think you're missing the point here. This is an example of something a bus operator did. It's got nothing to do with Joe Public & his car. It was, & still is, a way for a business to have more than one income stream, nothing more & nothing less. If a business chooses to do it then the fact that you don't like it is completely irrelevant.
@@theflyingfool I am talking about the aesthetics of advertising in and on vehicles in general. In that, my opinion is as valid as anybody else's, and I don't like it. Any owner of vehicles, private, revenue-earning or preserved, has every right to disagree with me, and to do whatever the hell they want with their vehicles. All I am saying is that if they have pride in the appearance of those vehicles, per se, they will not besmirch them with advertisements, which are invariably a detriment in this respect.
Hi Dave you've done a fantastic job on that rexine I know the smell that you mean I always say if you're going to do a job do it properly. It looks fantastic with the seats against it and the yellow sunset roof. Can't wait till the next video. Keep the adverts on the side it looks great. 👌
Keep the ads, They make them stand out,that makes the bus look really good.
leave them on they look very well .
Joubert busses at that time were old Daimlers with Gardner engines, nice new AECs, Guys with RR engines and some old single- deck Leylands. The sound of your engines brings back memories!
First time I ever saw a Routemaster bus was in 1962, they were London Transport Green Kine RMC’s from Romford London Road Garage, then I saw them in 1967, again at Brentwood on the Country Area Green 339’s from London Transport Harlow Garage to Warley Fords, must be showing you age.
Yes leave them on mate . 🇨🇦
Yes, keep the adverts
Makes the bus look more realistic
ps i forgot 2 say if you turned back the clock they would be laughing the dogs off at that that is not meant in any way offensive to you i mean they did that job day in day out. but your dedication and skill is still alive in the 21st century all the best with this and hope 2021 gets better for us all especially as i am a truck coach and minibus driver
Thank you Chris.
Keep the ad’s but as you said “it’s my bus and I’ll do what I like” love the comment about upsetting the routemaster bus people with the coverage of the holes 😂 couldn’t you fill them tho? What’s it made of wood or metal? I don’t even like busses like I said before but I’m loving the channel 👍
Thanks Austin, the panel is metal.
Excellent lovely bus certainly the advertisement boards enhance the bus. Very interesting.
Yes, thank you
Clean the windows properly before putting the rubber on the window.
It’s a shame that your other Routemaster did not have it’s original registration. However still a great looking Bus. Paul Davis. Ex London Transport driver 1967-1972.
Hi Paul, yes unfortunately it was sold when the bus was transferred to Scotland. Last we heard it was on a Nissan! Hopefully one day we can get it back.
Awesome attention to detail 👍
Thanks 👍
Keep the ads! They certainly add to the period authenticity.
Authentically dreadful.
Hi new family member here from Scotland
Welcome!!
This rm needs your tlc
Hi thank you once again for another excellent video guys you’re all doing such a wonderful job. I would keep advertisements on bus. Thank you for the information about route master Association I was under the impression that you could only be member if you were a route master owner so I’ll be definitely joining the Association as well thank you for that. I’ll look forward to your next video.
Such a shame you can't pick up a roll of the genuine Rexine, but you should keep the adverts it looks so bland without them, thanks for updating.
I say keep them on the bus it suits it
In the matter of the smell: The 409 was one of my local routes to school, and in early October 1965 it got brand new RMLs to replace the RTs. So I was a very early rider of those buses. The smell was horrendous! Acrid and pungent it took literally months to dissipate to an inoffensive level. My guess is that this was not just the Rexine, but the adhesive that was used as well. I can still remember that smell, and it was not pleasant. Free glue-sniffing on trips to and from school, anybody?
Hi Allen, where did you catch the 409? I used to occasionally catch the 409 to School. I went to Purly High School for Boys in Old Couldson.
@@Routemaster4Hire I lived in Coulsdon in The Grove 1955-68 and in Starrock Road 1968-71. I went to Whitgift School 1963-70, so I was travelling the other way to you to school. To 1968 I could either get the bus at the bottom of The Avenue, or the bottom of The Drive. The Avenue was a shorter walk, but The Drive offered the 409 and 411 which The Avenue option did not. I remember the Routemasters for the 409/10/11 being delivered because from the back windows at home you could see, across the valley, buses ascending Coulsdon Road up to Old Coulsdon. I spotted one red Routemaster and though it odd, but dismissed it as a trial run or something, but then another one, green this time, and another one a bit later. This went on all afternoon, on and off, so it became obvious what was going on.
I was going to ask you why you have 190 blinds for your Routemasters, even though the main subject of your video couldn't have been allocated to the route. Also why one has a 190 offside blind, although offside blinds had been discontinued long before RMs appeared on the 190. I had my suspicions, but you have now confirmed them. 190 was also my favourite Central Area route, though favourite route overall was 414.
Incidentally, I have ridden on the star of your show, when it was in Halifax in Tony Blackman's fleet. I thought Tony must have had his hands on it when you revealed it had the big engine in it. The whole Blackman family and their friends had a penchant for putting these in any AEC in which they would fit.
Best Wishes
What a small world! I grew up in Howard Road, we moved there when I was 5 in 1971 and my parents lived there until 1995 when they moved to Kingswood.
I have the 190 blinds in all my buses as it was the route I took to School and back everyday, plus after leaving School I took the same route (albeit in the opposite direction) to Croydon - my first job was in a Jewellers shop in the Whitgift Centre. Although I did have a choice of routes travelling from Coulsdon to Croydon (166, 409, 411) my preference was the 190 as it was the only route still operating Routemasters.
My first Routemaster RM765 was based at South Croydon garage at the time when I was travelling on the 190 to School, so there is every chance I travelled on that bus as a teenager. I have since had the 190 blinds reproduced for all my Routemasters even though as you say RM1214 would have never served that route.
David
@@Routemaster4Hire Ah, yes, Howard Road is at the top of the alleyway leading from The Grove to Woodcote Grove Road. I remember taking a photo of a Routemaster on the 190 when they were first introduced (on Saturdays only), but 1971 was my last year in Coulsdon before moving north, so, to me, the 190 is associated with the RT, though I did go back to see how the Southend PD3s coped (quite well, I thought). The 166 was replaced by SMSs. Everybody hated them, and there was a large public campaign to have them replaced by RTs again. While this was not successful, LT did take them away, and put on DMSs instead. Not popular, but at least the burghers of Coulsdon could get a seat. The SMSs were called “cattle trucks”. Prior to the DMSs, people in Coulsdon would shun them, and wait for a 190, 405, or 414.
Love following these videos, you're doing a great job. Definitely favour keeping the advertisements. If the film crew are basing this in 1962, the blinds are not right. As someone else says, the destination should read VICTORIA, and the via points are incorrect. In any case, I don't recall ever seeing an RM on the 38's as early as 1962. Ah well!
leave them on too right
Leave the ads! They look period correct.
I prefer the 60s style music. And Christ yes leave the ads on.
Thanks Nick, we have!!
Keep the ads. To me it always looks like there's something missing when there's no ads.
You sure you ain’t high on the spray glue near the end? 🤣😂🤣😂
Leave the adverts on
I own an RM. It came fitted with the fluorescent tube lighting both down and upstairs. Upstairs the previous lighting holes were covered over with a plate, but down stairs we cannot work out where the original lighting went. We will have to drill new holes for the lighting. Approx where in the panels downstairs are the bulbs located?
Hi Chris, they will be located in the middle of each coving section in the lower salon. If they are not there it suggests someone has replaced the panels so you will will need to drill new holes. I can send you photos if needed? Also, have you got the build holders and brackets? If not let me know as I can give you details of a company that had some made.
@@Routemaster4Hire Thank you for your reply that will be great if you can.
Who supplies you interior lightning bulb.
Hi David was wondering why have you not fitted a Communication window behind the Driver or are you leaving it as a plane piece of glass for a reason ?.
Probably something ti do with the sousnd system
@@thetrainandbusfinatic4094 that is nothing to do with the Sound system some Routemaster buses have a Communication window behind the Driver and some have a Standard plane of Glass.
Hi David, I probably will end up fitting one as all my other buses have them.
Leave the ads on. Why not put patches of Rexine under the seats.
Hi David, funnily enough someone else suggested this, unfortunately I have thrown away the old rexine.
What is the intro song called please
Hi. Lewis, here is the link to the intro music....
audiojungle.net/item/happy-kit/24447487
Leave them on the bus.
Great work you guys but to be honest i find myself hitting the mute button for "advert" thanks and all that loud noise you call music,perhaps takes up 50% of the vid , its just too much sorry
Buongiorno posso avere il vostro contatto ? Avrei bisogno di alcuni ricambi simile al bus in video
Grazie mille
I think take them off as they are not very detailed so dont add much to it
Kill that bloody crap music! I have to keep adjusting my headphones.
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grotneys red barrel horrible stuff lol