I still remember driving one of these, privately owned, through London's West End during the evening rush hour, and that was the first time I drove one.
Shame not more comments. Nice to see the vehicle in action. My father was a driver at Hemel Hempstead on RT, RF,GS,RM, T As a kid with my brother we would ride with him in front seats LH side downstairs. Many mor heritage days
I drove my Morris Minor round the Haymarket/Traf Square (coming home from work) in the days when Congestion Charge was weekday daytimes only. Got quite a few (Japanese) tourists taking photos of it
@@xd_transportation731 I had the impression that the flow can be improved by using intelligent traffic light management systems. I'm not sure if that's commonly used in the UK/in Londinium, as It's much more expensive... If someone knows..?
Great bus, shame about the driver. As an ex advanced level instructor on all wheeled vehicle groups and ex-LT RT and RM driver I find their steering control abysmal and their need to keep the gear selector lever warm in their hand rather novice and indecisive. It works when you need it, promise. Also, it has a 4 speed gearbox. As a mechanic, using only the top 3 will not do the fluid flywheel any favours. Seems "heritage" drivers need a old foggie to teach them how to do it properly.
Well, I am with you on keeping the selector warm, the steering method...., yes, better to feed the wheel, but I will argue with you about gear use. London Transport advocated starting in second gear, unless on an incline, indeed, the automatic gear lever position on a Routemaster, (4th), started the bus in second gear, the large engine having plenty of torque to pull away and avoid any jerks until about 12mph giving Passengers and Conductor a decent ride. LT also told Drivers to select/operate neutral in traffic delays to help the fluid flywheel from getting hot. In hold ups like bus stops and short phase traffic lights, keep in gear, nothing worse than being in neutral, then whacking into gear to move off, and jerking the poor transmission.
Poor gearbox. Fancy butchering an 83yo bus's gearbox like that. Pause to release the bands please. Little wonder you got false-neutral at 17:23, too. And again at 31:00! And yet again at 47:13! Back to the driving school please.
S a preselect gearbox where you select the next gear you are going to use ie if you are coming to a bus stop you sesct gear one and when yuo ull up and stop you push down the operating peddle like the cluck peddle to get the first gear then why you are waiting to go you put it in the second gear but you don't select it u till you need it then when you do you press down the operating peddle to engage it the select the next gear you think you will nead as conditions on the traffic so you can move the lever anywhere it does not do anything until you operate it hoe this helps you to understand why he moves it about clive
Don,t worry about typing errors, everyone does it. When approaching a bus stop, assess if it is a busy stop, if it is, stop, apply handbrake ,select second operate second, preselect third, ready for the starting bell then pull away, operating third gear at around 12 mph, then preselecting 4th,(top), to operate at about 20 to 25 mph.. When starting on an an incline, first gear will be needed. When approaching a bus stop where there are only a couple of people waiting, or a set of lights that have been red for a while, preselect second, and at around 3 mph, operate second, and a lovely merge between the gears will be heard but not felt and all ready for the lights to change, or the Conductor's starting signal.@@clivelane5482
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I still remember driving one of these, privately owned, through London's West End during the evening rush hour, and that was the first time I drove one.
Wonderful 👍
Shame not more comments. Nice to see the vehicle in action. My father was a driver at Hemel Hempstead on RT, RF,GS,RM, T As a kid with my brother we would ride with him in front seats LH side downstairs. Many mor heritage days
Ahahahaha, Lovely bus ride bro, I love these older buses, watching from Jamaica west Indies !!
I drove my Morris Minor round the Haymarket/Traf Square (coming home from work) in the days when Congestion Charge was weekday daytimes only. Got quite a few (Japanese) tourists taking photos of it
Be interesting to see the reaction running the route with a couple of DMS (maybe one in the Omnibus 150 livery)
should have run it as festival of britain route J
The traffic is unnervingly slow
Typical in Central London during daytime !
@@xd_transportation731 I had the impression that the flow can be improved by using intelligent traffic light management systems. I'm not sure if that's commonly used in the UK/in Londinium, as It's much more expensive...
If someone knows..?
Great bus, shame about the driver. As an ex advanced level instructor on all wheeled vehicle groups and ex-LT RT and RM driver I find their steering control abysmal and their need to keep the gear selector lever warm in their hand rather novice and indecisive. It works when you need it, promise. Also, it has a 4 speed gearbox. As a mechanic, using only the top 3 will not do the fluid flywheel any favours. Seems "heritage" drivers need a old foggie to teach them how to do it properly.
Well, I am with you on keeping the selector warm, the steering method...., yes, better to feed the wheel, but I will argue with you about gear use. London Transport advocated starting in second gear, unless on an incline, indeed, the automatic gear lever position on a Routemaster, (4th), started the bus in second gear, the large engine having plenty of torque to pull away and avoid any jerks until about 12mph giving Passengers and Conductor a decent ride.
LT also told Drivers to select/operate neutral in traffic delays to help the fluid flywheel from getting hot. In hold ups like bus stops and short phase traffic lights, keep in gear, nothing worse than being in neutral, then whacking into gear to move off, and jerking the poor transmission.
Not on RT driver training in the early 70s.
RM gear change from 1st to 2nd was horrendous and not easy to overcome the neck wrenching jerk.
Poor gearbox. Fancy butchering an 83yo bus's gearbox like that. Pause to release the bands please. Little wonder you got false-neutral at 17:23, too. And again at 31:00! And yet again at 47:13! Back to the driving school please.
S a preselect gearbox where you select the next gear you are going to use ie if you are coming to a bus stop you sesct gear one and when yuo ull up and stop you push down the operating peddle like the cluck peddle to get the first gear then why you are waiting to go you put it in the second gear but you don't select it u till you need it then when you do you press down the operating peddle to engage it the select the next gear you think you will nead as conditions on the traffic so you can move the lever anywhere it does not do anything until you operate it hoe this helps you to understand why he moves it about clive
Sorry for the typing mistakes
Don,t worry about typing errors, everyone does it. When approaching a bus stop, assess if it is a busy stop, if it is, stop, apply handbrake ,select second operate second, preselect third, ready for the starting bell then pull away, operating third gear at around 12 mph, then preselecting 4th,(top), to operate at about 20 to 25 mph..
When starting on an an incline, first gear will be needed.
When approaching a bus stop where there are only a couple of people waiting, or a set of lights that have been red for a while, preselect second, and at around 3 mph, operate second, and a lovely merge between the gears will be heard but not felt and all ready for the lights to change, or the Conductor's starting signal.@@clivelane5482