Not only that Jake but having Leo outside probably helped the decision to waterproof anything that could cause Leo to drag her big bum along the road! She is a Beautiful bus and really shines in your care my friend
@@edbridges1164 Thanks for your kind words Ed. Yes that is certainly one good thing, both with Leo and Perkie (PKE809M). I've taken the issue of water ingress very seriously. They could be outside for another few years yet so it has to be sorted out.
Leo the leopard's looking very nice indeed 👍👍👍 Would be good to hear the 0.680 pounding up and down the hills around here like the Western Scottish days...
@@craigsibley8161 Thanks Craig. I've got a video of her pulling out of Ryde filmed last year. ruclips.net/video/HNQ393-EYxw/видео.htmlsi=h0nPwm7deUm38762
@@stevedickson5853 One of my favourite bodies too Steve. East Kent had that bodywork on AEC Swifts. Very stylish and curvaceous. Loved the back window.
@JakeSCOC same here, when I was a small kid with my mother getting off a Y type or indeed one of our Park Royal Swifts and walking around the back to cross the rd i remember looking up at the back window it looked so high up on those buses and the people sat on the back seat lol, me waffling on about memories
Hi i'm viatron from Sheffield once again, but one old classic single deck coach body made by Plaxton is the Panorama of the 1960s was the best selling type with the earlier versions featuring two rear silvered chromium fins & bumper which housed the rear trafficators, tail & brake lights via a very strange three curved wrap round rear windows & also at the front there is a horizontal oval shaped radiator grille with a central silvered chromium double ended tapered wings from the centre round dome. With also a centre entrance version known as the Plaxton Embassy which had been bodied onto A.E.C. RELIANCE underfloor engined single deck passenger chassis plus Leyland Leopard L1 type. But cast your mind back to a classic 1967 Beatles film which features a much later 60s type of Panorama coach body mounted on a Bedford VAL14 front engined twin-steer single deck passenger chassis what had been used on THE MAGIC MYSTERY TOUR at the time. The last type of the Plaxton Panorama known as the Elite which was also mounted on a Leyland Leopard chassis via also having rear four round trafficator, tail, brake & reversing lights by Heller vehicle lighting units & later the large rectangular versions.thanks for your co-operation on this very special vintage history about my favourite coach body of all time, the Plaxton Panorama subject from David Viatron Esquire of crookes in Sheffield. ROLL UP! ROLL UP! FOR THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR! RIGHT THIS WAY!
@@ViatronTumpington Hi David. I remember seeing pictures of Wallace Arnold old panoramas. Certainly was a good looking bodywork. Not sure how many survive? What a great film. Love the music to Magical Mystery Tour. My Dad has the original EP.
I use to get them a fair bit as a teenager as United use to use them quite a lot on their longer runs like Newcastle (Haymarket) to Berwick upon Tweed and Middlesbrough to Scarborough although for time to time you'd get them on short trips too.A lot on National Express runs too.
As the founder and owner of our successful family embroidery and vinyl cut business, in days of yore, not the way or methodology I'd have used, BUT, your results are amazing! I was waiting for a lovely cut of your carpet 😉 Well done 👍
Was it new in NBC duel purpose livery or national express white I liked the Duple bodywork we used foxes of Hayes at my school for trips and a brand new one took us to beaconsfield in 78 it was a T plate and remember thinking it’s got metrobus rear lights 😊,yours is nice Jake you must of watched blue Peter Leslie judd and her sticky backed plastic 😜 All the best Mark 😊😊
@@marksinthehouse1968 Hi Mark. She was new in National Bus Company white. Had lovely alternating blue and red seats too which I'd like to put back in eventually - even if they're not original to the Hastings and District colours. It was Janet Ellis in my day Mark! 😂
@marksinthehouse1968 No way! That's an amazing claim to fame. I grew up with her, Simon Groom, Sarah Green, Peter Duncan, Mark Curry and Caron Keating.
Used To Like The Sound Of Those Quick Release Valves On The Gears Not Every Box Had Them You Had To Wait Till All The Air Exhausted Or It Would Still Be In Gear As You Selected Neutral
I have a memory of Hastings and District Buses looking distinctly scruffier than their M&D Cousins. Did Maidstone decamp all it's older vehicles down to the Coast? Or am I just remembering a pre Privatisation period when they might have been "neglected" a little to spite Stagecoach?
@@PaddyWV Actually, you're not alone in saying that, someone I work with remembers H&D being a bit rough too. I suspect as they were a smaller company, profit wasn't as grand when it was part of the Maidstone and District empire. They sold out fairly quickly to Stagecoach too.
@JakeSCOC In the early Stagecoach days, heading into Hastings, we broke down in a Mk 2 National (about 1993) - the driver was cursing the (new) management, saying he didn't want to take the bus out, but he had to!!
Please ask your driver to pause in neutral during gear change, she's going from a forward gear straight in to reverse, not recommended, all other aspects very well done.
@@carabara3947 It's on the list of jobs to do. I must admit it's not great looking but it's better now with the tape around it than when the covering was flaking off. Was like driving with razor blades!
@@sameyers2670 I could be wrong but is think it was so the boot could be the size that was needed. If the chassis extend beyond the rear axle it would have intruded into that space. Plus probably cost too. Lots of older buses had the same chassis set up. The flat floor Lodekka for example had the bodywork support the rear of the bus.
Not only that Jake but having Leo outside probably helped the decision to waterproof anything that could cause Leo to drag her big bum along the road! She is a Beautiful bus and really shines in your care my friend
@@edbridges1164 Thanks for your kind words Ed. Yes that is certainly one good thing, both with Leo and Perkie (PKE809M). I've taken the issue of water ingress very seriously. They could be outside for another few years yet so it has to be sorted out.
Leo the leopard's looking very nice indeed 👍👍👍
Would be good to hear the 0.680 pounding up and down the hills around here like the Western Scottish days...
@@craigsibley8161 Thanks Craig. I've got a video of her pulling out of Ryde filmed last year.
ruclips.net/video/HNQ393-EYxw/видео.htmlsi=h0nPwm7deUm38762
@@JakeSCOC Thanks, just watched it. That's the one. The soundtrack of my pre and adolescent years 👍👍👍
@craigsibley8161 Glad you enjoyed it Craig. Can't beat that Leopard growl.
My fave Leopards were tucked under an Alexander Y type body, love the shape
@@stevedickson5853 One of my favourite bodies too Steve. East Kent had that bodywork on AEC Swifts. Very stylish and curvaceous. Loved the back window.
@JakeSCOC same here, when I was a small kid with my mother getting off a Y type or indeed one of our Park Royal Swifts and walking around the back to cross the rd i remember looking up at the back window it looked so high up on those buses and the people sat on the back seat lol, me waffling on about memories
@stevedickson5853 Ahh happy memories of the good old days.
I misheard the video. As "While I dont use the boot for carrying passengers"
@@highpath4776 🤣 They tend to complain if I put them in there...
Hi i'm viatron from Sheffield once again, but one old classic single deck coach body made by Plaxton is the Panorama of the 1960s was the best selling type with the earlier versions featuring two rear silvered chromium fins & bumper which housed the rear trafficators, tail & brake lights via a very strange three curved wrap round rear windows & also at the front there is a horizontal oval shaped radiator grille with a central silvered chromium double ended tapered wings from the centre round dome. With also a centre entrance version known as the Plaxton Embassy which had been bodied onto A.E.C. RELIANCE underfloor engined single deck passenger chassis plus Leyland Leopard L1 type. But cast your mind back to a classic 1967 Beatles film which features a much later 60s type of Panorama coach body mounted on a Bedford VAL14 front engined twin-steer single deck passenger chassis what had been used on THE MAGIC MYSTERY TOUR at the time. The last type of the Plaxton Panorama known as the Elite which was also mounted on a Leyland Leopard chassis via also having rear four round trafficator, tail, brake & reversing lights by Heller vehicle lighting units & later the large rectangular versions.thanks for your co-operation on this very special vintage history about my favourite coach body of all time, the Plaxton Panorama subject from David Viatron Esquire of crookes in Sheffield. ROLL UP! ROLL UP! FOR THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR! RIGHT THIS WAY!
@@ViatronTumpington Hi David. I remember seeing pictures of Wallace Arnold old panoramas. Certainly was a good looking bodywork. Not sure how many survive?
What a great film. Love the music to Magical Mystery Tour. My Dad has the original EP.
Brilliant video love the wrap around dash on them dom 2
@@shaunmccauley5129 Thanks. Yes it was quite modern for it's time I suppose.
I use to get them a fair bit as a teenager as United use to use them quite a lot on their longer runs like Newcastle (Haymarket) to Berwick upon Tweed and Middlesbrough to Scarborough although for time to time you'd get them on short trips too.A lot on National Express runs too.
@@kevanhubbard9673 They really did everything didn't they? Stage, express and tours. This one did all from continental tours to the Tesco free bus!
As the founder and owner of our successful family embroidery and vinyl cut business, in days of yore, not the way or methodology I'd have used, BUT, your results are amazing! I was waiting for a lovely cut of your carpet 😉
Well done 👍
@@thisiszaphod Thank you so very much. Let me assure you though that no rugs were harmed in the making of this video 😁
Dad and I think you've done a cracking job.
@@jadeboswell-rz2ly Hi Jade. Thanks ever so much 👍🏼
10 out 10 for effort Jake
@@a11csc Thanks very much
Was it new in NBC duel purpose livery or national express white I liked the Duple bodywork we used foxes of Hayes at my school for trips and a brand new one took us to beaconsfield in 78 it was a T plate and remember thinking it’s got metrobus rear lights 😊,yours is nice Jake you must of watched blue Peter Leslie judd and her sticky backed plastic 😜
All the best
Mark 😊😊
@@marksinthehouse1968 Hi Mark. She was new in National Bus Company white. Had lovely alternating blue and red seats too which I'd like to put back in eventually - even if they're not original to the Hastings and District colours.
It was Janet Ellis in my day Mark! 😂
@@JakeSCOCblimey I’m old ,I was Janet’s postie you know 😊
@marksinthehouse1968 No way! That's an amazing claim to fame. I grew up with her, Simon Groom, Sarah Green, Peter Duncan, Mark Curry and Caron Keating.
Used To Like The Sound Of Those Quick Release Valves On The Gears Not Every Box Had Them You Had To Wait Till All The Air Exhausted Or It Would Still Be In Gear As You Selected Neutral
@@carabara3947 Yes very distinctive noise wasn't it?
I have a memory of Hastings and District Buses looking distinctly scruffier than their M&D Cousins. Did Maidstone decamp all it's older vehicles down to the Coast? Or am I just remembering a pre Privatisation period when they might have been "neglected" a little to spite Stagecoach?
@@PaddyWV Actually, you're not alone in saying that, someone I work with remembers H&D being a bit rough too. I suspect as they were a smaller company, profit wasn't as grand when it was part of the Maidstone and District empire. They sold out fairly quickly to Stagecoach too.
@JakeSCOC In the early Stagecoach days, heading into Hastings, we broke down in a Mk 2 National (about 1993) - the driver was cursing the (new) management, saying he didn't want to take the bus out, but he had to!!
Please ask your driver to pause in neutral during gear change, she's going from a forward gear straight in to reverse, not recommended, all other aspects very well done.
@@preservedirishtransp Yes she's still learning but she's doing very well. Normally pauses are observed 😁
Jake Could You Get That Steering Wheel Refurbished If Possible Abs Hated That Black Tape Over
@@carabara3947 It's on the list of jobs to do. I must admit it's not great looking but it's better now with the tape around it than when the covering was flaking off. Was like driving with razor blades!
Was there any particular reason the Leopard chassis didn't extend to the back of the coach?
@@sameyers2670 I could be wrong but is think it was so the boot could be the size that was needed. If the chassis extend beyond the rear axle it would have intruded into that space. Plus probably cost too. Lots of older buses had the same chassis set up. The flat floor Lodekka for example had the bodywork support the rear of the bus.
@JakeSCOC Thanks, did the Tiger and the B10M also have a chassis that was shorter than the body?
@sameyers2670 Yes I think so.
does anyone own the Hastings and District name/ trade mark ?
@@highpath4776 Yes they most certainly do 😊
Sometimes paying a professional to do something saves you money in the longterm.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 Sometimes. Especially when it comes to gearboxes and engine rebuilding...