I drove these (not Cravens) in the 60s and 70s. You learned to read the road. One trick I learned was to coast to a stop in 3rd or 4th, having preselected 2nd. When the bus was almost stopped, dip the operating pedal to change down without a clunk. If you waited until the bus was stopped, changing into 2nd ready to start off again gave a loud clunk and sometimes a jerk. Another lesson learned was cadence braking. Slow down with the brakes, but just before the bus comes to a stop ease off the pedal to avoid that horrid jerk followed by suspension bounce. Thanks for the video. I stepped back in time, most nostalgic.
Exactly right :) what I do on the rare occasions I drive RTs too and established good practice. As you say, just dipping the operating pedal just ahead of the wheels coming to a stop avoid that clunk.
Back in the 1960s I used to travel to and from school on RTs running on routes 59A and 159. Many times they were Craven bodied ones so it's quite possible I travelled on this one more than once.
Absolutely lovely, musical sound of an A.E.C. unit which takes me back to my youth! However, one was always denied this viewpoint at night due to the brown leatherette blind being lowered so that cabin reflections would not distract the driver.
I drive an AEC device with 2 X 9.6 lite straight 6 engines, built in 1940 with 2 Wilson Epicyclic Gearboxes, and have also changed from 2nd to 2nd numerous times, despite driving her for nearly 30 years. I have traveled from the Embankment Tube Station to their Garage, had a quick trip on their Leyland Cub C4, then round the M25 on her to Potters Bar, for the bus running day. Then back into London, and dropped of outside Kings Cross
Ordered because of the fear that body production would not keep pace with chassis roll-out. This did not occur and LT sold them off as soon as possible when, being fairly new, they were eagerly purchased by independent concerns.
It might be less refined than a standard London RT, but I would still imagine that a Cravens RT is far from the word "nasty" that you used to describe the Metec-bodied Guy Arabs in the CMB fleet.
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I drove these (not Cravens) in the 60s and 70s. You learned to read the road. One trick I learned was to coast to a stop in 3rd or 4th, having preselected 2nd. When the bus was almost stopped, dip the operating pedal to change down without a clunk. If you waited until the bus was stopped, changing into 2nd ready to start off again gave a loud clunk and sometimes a jerk.
Another lesson learned was cadence braking. Slow down with the brakes, but just before the bus comes to a stop ease off the pedal to avoid that horrid jerk followed by suspension bounce.
Thanks for the video. I stepped back in time, most nostalgic.
Thank you for sharing your experience!
Exactly right :) what I do on the rare occasions I drive RTs too and established good practice. As you say, just dipping the operating pedal just ahead of the wheels coming to a stop avoid that clunk.
Back in the 1960s I used to travel to and from school on RTs running on routes 59A and 159. Many times they were Craven bodied ones so it's quite possible I travelled on this one more than once.
Beautifull Bus in Night City, with beautifull engine sounds, on nice video.
He was thrashing it through the gears a bit! That sound takes me back to my childhood.
Absolutely lovely, musical sound of an A.E.C. unit which takes me back to my youth! However, one was always denied this viewpoint at night due to the brown leatherette blind being lowered so that cabin reflections would not distract the driver.
Do you know if the 760 was fitted to these?
There is nothing like the sound of an AEC 9.6, except of course a Rolls Royce Merlin
I drive an AEC device with 2 X 9.6 lite straight 6 engines, built in 1940 with 2 Wilson Epicyclic Gearboxes, and have also changed from 2nd to 2nd numerous times, despite driving her for nearly 30 years. I have traveled from the Embankment Tube Station to their Garage, had a quick trip on their Leyland Cub C4, then round the M25 on her to Potters Bar, for the bus running day. Then back into London, and dropped of outside Kings Cross
Ordered because of the fear that body production would not keep pace with chassis roll-out. This did not occur and LT sold them off as soon as possible when, being fairly new, they were eagerly purchased by independent concerns.
So good to see two survive to tell part of the RT story I hadn’t heard of the cravens ones before this video
I just noticed the central green/cream panel behind the driver is flat, like the RTWs were, whereas RT and RTLs were curved.
Yes, I can see that too...after noticing the absence of Beclawat window cranks and the 'crudity' of the drop-down system.
No way to drive a vintage bus
Agree he didn’t treat it with any respect
惡車系列。。
It might be less refined than a standard London RT, but I would still imagine that a Cravens RT is far from the word "nasty" that you used to describe the Metec-bodied Guy Arabs in the CMB fleet.
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