Rather unfortunate shot at 3:10 where the Clydeside bus is so busy chasing the Strathclyde bus that it almost goes straight past a passenger at the stop!
I love it! A maintenance shot of an Ailsa at 06:15, and surprise, suprise, it has its back wheels off! The bus shown is KSD94W, I have many memories of riding on this vehicle in Leeds.
The vehicles that many of these operations had were cascaded, they were acquired after having hard lives elsewhere or inherited as part of the whole deregulation scenario. Any engineer working under these circumstances had their work cut out to ensure the fleet operated and many did by keeping these fleets alive. Strangely, the reliability of what some people may feel was 'scrap' then, is far better than some of the shite that First attempt to keep on the road now. I have no love of First Group, the shambles that they run in Glasgow is a fucking disgrace relative to what previously existed.
By the way, First couldn't run a fucking raffle.........call it sour grapes.....but I got canned by them........as for the Commonwealth Games..........imagine letting First anywhere near that......totally incompetent.
@BiggerThanJesus09 lol.i know what you mean,i seen a manager in my depot getting sacked one day for making the old cleaning ladies paint the wheels on the old busses!! tighter than 2 coats of paint.also we still run old E-reg Volvo olympians...still great to drive but some still have ash-trays in the seat backs!!
Clydeside was never in the black. Neither were any of the 'offshoot' companies, like Kelvin and Lowland. Never worked out why the Bus Group thought Glasgow was rich pickings. Even with the boundary changes, Clydeside was on a hiding to hell, Western couldn't make Glasgow workings effective so Christ knows how Clydeside could. To be honest, the fleet that Clydeside had was reasonably good, and by today's standards would compete. However, deregulation was a cut - throat time and the PTE had that area sown - up...........now First have it and Arriva long moved out of the game.
Rather unfortunate shot at 3:10 where the Clydeside bus is so busy chasing the Strathclyde bus that it almost goes straight past a passenger at the stop!
I love it! A maintenance shot of an Ailsa at 06:15, and surprise, suprise, it has its back wheels off! The bus shown is KSD94W, I have many memories of riding on this vehicle in Leeds.
The vehicles that many of these operations had were cascaded, they were acquired after having hard lives elsewhere or inherited as part of the whole deregulation scenario. Any engineer working under these circumstances had their work cut out to ensure the fleet operated and many did by keeping these fleets alive. Strangely, the reliability of what some people may feel was 'scrap' then, is far better than some of the shite that First attempt to keep on the road now. I have no love of First Group, the shambles that they run in Glasgow is a fucking disgrace relative to what previously existed.
I worked for Clydeside Paisley depot 1972 - 1982, memories indeed
Poor old Sandy. He looks about as comfortable as a lame turkey, sitting on a pile of stuffing with a Xmas carol LP playing.
6.38 is my dad standing at rear door pretending to work!
Allan Archibald?
@@stewartaird3242 aye thats him . He's been retired a good 5 years . Finished up at Alexander Dennis .
George Watson and Jim Lee got things so wrong, sandy brydon was put of his depth the company was doomed to failure.
Clydeside had a funny driver called Big Norrie Macled
And in the end... McGill's swept it all up
By the way, First couldn't run a fucking raffle.........call it sour grapes.....but I got canned by them........as for the Commonwealth Games..........imagine letting First anywhere near that......totally incompetent.
Am sure this guy ended up working for East midlands
he does report with 4 buses standing idle behind him when they would have been making money if they were in service
M O T buses
In clydesides johnstone or inchininn garage my. Grampa was chief mechanic in Johnstone with Brian Smith. The Vauxhall guru
all the suits with clean hands. no clue of the real world.
Lochaber no more, Sutherland no more, Lewis no more, Skye no more...
Clydeside would have done better if they had got rid of Watson a lot sooner.
@BiggerThanJesus09 lol.i know what you mean,i seen a manager in my depot getting sacked one day for
making the old cleaning ladies paint the wheels on the old busses!! tighter than 2 coats of paint.also we still
run old E-reg Volvo olympians...still great to drive but some still have ash-trays in the seat backs!!
Clydeside was never in the black. Neither were any of the 'offshoot' companies, like Kelvin and Lowland. Never worked out why the Bus Group thought Glasgow was rich pickings. Even with the boundary changes, Clydeside was on a hiding to hell, Western couldn't make Glasgow workings effective so Christ knows how Clydeside could. To be honest, the fleet that Clydeside had was reasonably good, and by today's standards would compete. However, deregulation was a cut - throat time and the PTE had that area sown - up...........now First have it and Arriva long moved out of the game.
@BiggerThanJesus09 So sorry.was more interested in the fact that it was my dad 20 years ago,
BTW im a bus mechanic too
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