Classic Bus Histories: The Bristol LH Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Hello and welcome to part 2 of the Bristol LH story. In this episode of Classic Bus Histories we conclude our look at this lightweight little bus. We look at the end of production and what killed off the standard Bristol LH, and then we take a look at some slightly off the wall buses including one that thinks it's a train - Ideal for rail replacement maybe?
I hope you've enjoyed this two part video on the last bus to emerge from Bristol Commercial Vehicles carrying the Bristol name.
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Excellent video again thanks jake
@@thedaddie Thank you
I remember Tyne & Wear Omnibus Company had loads of these in the early days of deregulation, the competition in them days was crazy, drivers would regularly fight on in the street with competing companies sometimes going as far as to try and run the other bus off the road before they got to the bus stops! Blue Bus service had a few too that would run to Ponteland x77 and that was a horrendous trip if you happened to be unluckly enough to catch one of the Bristols as the roads were so full of pot holes, you had to hang on to anything you could as it was a fast drive and very bumpy!!
Very interesting video, once again Jake.
I believe that Southern Vectis used an LHS on a service that crossed the Medina via the East Cowes/Cowes floating bridge.
Also South Yorkshire used them on the new ‘Nipper’ services.
Sadly I never travelled on either of these, but did travel on many a Lincolnshire LH.
@@unclenolly3207 Glad you enjoyed it. Yes that service over the floating bridge rings a bell but it was a minibus when I knew it. I remember the last two LHSs in service on the island and how they were painted the same livery as the new UVG bodied Darts.
LHS was on the west Yar link, at a time when Yarmouth bridge had a 7.5 ton weight limit. Southern Vectis Fleet numbers were 201,202,203
@@JakeSCOC In the SVOC 75th Anniversary book I’m sure there’s a picture of an LHS getting on the floating bridge. I might have dreamt that though 😳
As the say a poor mouse has but one hole😂,according to buses magazine it said abd I quote”The BL was an un popular type ,but,it survived repaints into all over red and later white tape ,grey skirt livery ,unto I think early nineties and the training fleet also Hillingdon had theirs until LX and LSs took over so what nearly 20 years not bad for an off the shelf bus in London ,still remember them brand new on the 290 in the to my mind best LT livery white window surrounds and yellow doors ,all the best Jake
Boo no teaser for the next video 😂😂
Mark 😊😊
@@marksinthehouse1968 Hi Mark. 20 years for a bus that was originally envisaged only having a 7 year life is pretty amazing to be honest.
The Leyland National had a small competitor from the Willowbrook Bedford YRQ
@@highpath4776 Yes it did. Bedford (or rather GM) marketed it a lot better than Leyland did the LHS.
My father-in-law bought an LHS to get it into preservation back in the 90s!
I always thought it was an odd choice, he worked for Northern so it wasn't his sort of bus (his sort of bus was Northern Routemasters 2099!) but he bought it anyway (VOD 124K - a Marshall bodied LHS IIRC)
I travelled a lot on LHs when I was a kid and they were MIGHTY bouncy things with the driver always seeming to be working REALLY hard compared to the REs and VRs they shared depot space with...
@@dizzy2020 Hats off to someone preserving a bit that they've had no real contact with. Sometimes that relationship with a vehicle is the reason we buy them in the first place.
Nice one prob have a photo of it in Exeter
@@highpath4776 it was one of a fleet of LH/LHSes run by a company in the North East after privatisation but I like to see a bus going back to where it worked most - in the right colours etc. etc.
@@dizzy2020that may well have been the TWOC LHS I still recall with trepidation.
Fabulous video Jake. Really enjoyed both LH videos. Thanks for these.
I drove the BL on London Transport route 80 in 1977 Fitted with the Self Changing Gears. Which didn't. Hard to get a smooth gear change, but rewarding when you did. And we southern Jessies had power steering too. The RF type it replaced was very refined by comparison.
Great video
Hi i'm viatron from Sheffield once again, the famous legendary Bristol LH, LHS & LHL versions single deck buses & coaches were most common on our British roads & the very strange NOCKING! sounds coming from the Leyland 0.400H 6-cylinder direct-injection horizontal diesel engine through a Turner-Clark 5-speed synchromesh gearbox with a single dry plate friction clutch is a godsend to all bus drivers. But one lowhight double deck bus from Scotland via being built by Albion Motors Ltd using Leyland Titan PD3A parts what includes a Leyland 0.600 9.8 litre 6-cylinder diesel engine via a Leyland 4-speed synchromesh gearbox with a single dry plate friction clutch or with a Leyland-Wilson S.C.G. 4-speed semi-automatic gearbox with fluid flywheel as standard. Introducing the Albion Lowlander LR-series lowhight double deck bus what many bus operators had used in the past such as Western S.M.T., Central S.M.T. & Ribble, South Notts, Yorkshire Woollen, A1 Motor Services & many others. But when you look at an Albion lowlander LR-series lowhight double deck bus in any bus fleet subjecting to the St. Hellens style radiator grille at the front end you will notice it said's ALBION in Scotland, but in England it said's LEYLAND via being a lowhight Leyland Titan PD3A type. But I hope you make a very interesting lowhight double deck bus video on the classic Albion lowlander LR-series on your very legendary Classic Bus Histories video series very soon. Thank you for your co-operation on this very special vintage Albion lowlander lowhight double deck bus subject from David Viatron Esquire of crookes in Sheffield.
Hi Jake, another great video. Dad has inquired if when you have time you may look into tow buses as mentioned. I always remember an RF sitting outside our house with dad in kitchen taking a Bacon sandwich and a cuppa.
Got to ride on several of those in Malta, all part of an amazing bus scene there back then!
Well done on your pronouncing of Mousehole!
Always loved that little Western National between Penzance and Mousehole.
Thanks. French I'm not good with but Cornish I can do!
Thanks Jake, as well as a second home on Malta there was also one in North East England where post deregulation Bob Lewis of Trimdon and Jersey fame set up Tees and District and Tyne and Wear Omnibus : both used huge numbers of former NBC LH and LHS driven in shall we say a spirited manner. I remember getting off a TWOC Marshall bodied LHS and after a breath of smoke free air considered the journey the twitching chain-smoking driver had given. I felt I had won a round of Russian roulette.
The LH also fell foul of the Market Analysis programme, which saw routes either tweaked to use a VRT all day or had them put out to tender.
The last Bristol in Production but only by a Short Margin. (sic)
@@highpath4776 Thanks
NBC sometimes had "Captial Expenditure Limits" thus orders sometimes had to be "adjusted" at head office to bring down - or sometimes spend to budget - and this could determine if certain finished vehicles actually would come into service and so on.
@@highpath4776 Very interesting.
There were also 3 late build LHSs for Southern Vectis, KDL 202-4W
Interesting as we had discussions of something that was a bus but now used for other purposes If (most) seats are removed does the bus be no longer a bus but some kind of goods vehicle (and should its plating change?) I can understand not permitting a A frame bolt on to the "chassis" of another bus but a full system inc braking as needed I am not sure how the "prime mover" aspect of things actually changes , or not
@@highpath4776 As I understand the rules, if it has over 17 seats it can still be classed as a bus and driven on a PVC license. Anything less needs to be tested and taxed as a HGV and you'll need the appropriate license
@@JakeSCOC one of the "tow bus" changes was the removal of using them in "revenue" capacity on trade plates which strictly became an out of service eg delivery to another location not carrying goods for that location or elsewhere so everything had to be tested and taxed appropriately, we lost the ex WD AEC Matadors etc on that rule too
@@highpath4776Lots of recoveries got Q plates then
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@@russb2286 Thanks Russ
First again!
You should try retirement - nothing better to do !!
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Thank you 😀😀
Surely the LH would sip fuel rather than nibble it? If we are talking lightweight buses, the Ford R1014 was so much pleasanter to ride in. (IMHO).
@@timbounds7190 Yes indeed. Sipping. I've not had the pleasure of a Ford but remember travelling and driving Bedfords.