RMweb Gold 08221 Posted March 10, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said: Peasant chariots? Take a butchers at these lovelies, there is even one on a bridge, Ford End Road bridge, at the south end of Bedford Midland Road station. The 100 and 101 routes where the ones I use to catch to go to town. Fantastic, proper buses!! I remember the United Counties Lodekkas on the 390 and 391 passing our house in Bletchley where I grew up. We never had a car so went everywhere on the bus and train! Happy memories!! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 10, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) Come on who was brought up in a shoebox? It doesn't matter where you were brought up (or in my case dragged up), what matters is how you treat other people no matter where they come from. I have a theory known as the Throne of Equality. Some people live in small homes, some people live in big homes, small homes have less rooms, big homes have more rooms. Normally small houses have less toilets than big homes. You can only sit your bottom on one at a time, and when you do so I bet you look as daft as me with your pants around your ankles. See we are all equal. Edited March 10, 2021 by Clive Mortimore 4 12 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 41 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: Come on who was brought up in a shoebox? A shoebox - Luxury......I had to make do with the outer sleeve of a box of matches with the wind howling through 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted March 10, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2021 6 hours ago, Gibbo675 said: we had to dodge both the Ladies of the Night and the St Johns Ambulance drug support workers to get into the place. Wot about getting out? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted March 10, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2021 5 hours ago, 08221 said: Fantastic, proper buses!! Well, up to a point, Lord Copper. "Proper" proper buses didn't have doors on the back so you could jump on and off whenever you felt like it. 3 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 14 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: Wot about getting out? Hi Enodoc, After a few gills we didn't seem to notice or care quite so much ! Gibbo. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 10, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 10, 2021 22 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: Well, up to a point, Lord Copper. "Proper" proper buses didn't have doors on the back so you could jump on and off whenever you felt like it. Wot like the Borismasters were intended for, but normally have the rear doors shut. Not that the bendy buses were any better. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Proper busses you say? Only because you didn't have to drive them. When I started we still had Denis dominators in Sheffield, the oldest was a w reg. Let the revs drop and no power steering. There was a traffic light that for at least 10 years was pointing in the wrong direction at the end of West Street due to this, but honest, it wasn't me lol 3 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 11, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2021 8 hours ago, cheesysmith said: Proper busses you say? Only because you didn't have to drive them. When I started we still had Denis dominators in Sheffield, the oldest was a w reg. Let the revs drop and no power steering. There was a traffic light that for at least 10 years was pointing in the wrong direction at the end of West Street due to this, but honest, it wasn't me lol Proper buses, pah, we had Regent III's in my day! Mike. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 11, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2021 14 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: Come on who was brought up in a shoebox? It doesn't matter where you were brought up (or in my case dragged up), what matters is how you treat other people no matter where they come from. I have a theory known as the Throne of Equality. Some people live in small homes, some people live in big homes, small homes have less rooms, big homes have more rooms. Normally small houses have less toilets than big homes. You can only sit your bottom on one at a time, and when you do so I bet you look as daft as me with your pants around your ankles. See we are all equal. Pants?, luxury. Mike. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 11, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2021 3 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Proper buses, pah, we had Regent III's in my day! Mike. Bristol KSWs with low bridge bodies are real buses. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 19 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: You can only sit your bottom on one at a time, and when you do so I bet you look as daft as me with your pants around your ankles. See we are all equal. Except that the folks in the Big Houses can tell the folks in the Small Houses when they can sit, and tell the Small House folk to wipe the Big House folks ar$e$ and apply toothpaste to the brush So not that equal really. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Question, how does these compare? We have from L-R a NNK cab then i think craftsman, then a DC kits with home made destination box. The NNK has a slight curved top, the CM curved top and sloping to the front, mine is flat topped. Wanting to do a 108 with box, and also a 115, so which to use? PS-surprised how well my home made bodge comes out in this photo. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 I wish I could make destination boxes that square. Go for your own front , it’s much better. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 22 hours ago, 08221 said: Fantastic, proper buses!! I remember the United Counties Lodekkas on the 390 and 391 passing our house in Bletchley where I grew up. We never had a car so went everywhere on the bus and train! Happy memories!! Nah, these are proper buses. None of this polluting diesel nonsense, and they didnt have stick to 30MPH neither. As a special treat check out the Stratford North Woolwich route at 1.05. . At 1-16 the round building on th eright is the stairway into the foot tunnel under the Thames . At 1-35 you are looking towards dock st ( I think thats what its called) and towering above the houses you can see the funnel of a ship in the King George V Dock . Then at 2.06 a fleeting glimpse of North Woolwich station Three platforms and a large goods yard back in the day, and finally from the footbridge outside the station, and N7 and Quintart set starting out on its 5 mile trip to all stations to Stratford , first stop Slivertown a mile down the line East End Trolleys - Bing video If this doesnt paste properly can find it on youtube under East End Trolleys as I think Bing might have blocked copying it 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinofLoxley Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 13 minutes ago, jazzer said: Nah, these are proper buses. None of this polluting diesel nonsense, and they didnt have stick to 30MPH neither. As a special treat check out the Stratford North Woolwich route at 1.05. . At 1-16 the round building on th eright is the stairway into the foot tunnel under the Thames . At 1-35 you are looking towards dock st ( I think thats what its called) and towering above the houses you can see the funnel of a ship in the King George V Dock . Then at 2.06 a fleeting glimpse of North Woolwich station Three platforms and a large goods yard back in the day, and finally from the footbridge outside the station, and N7 and Quintart set starting out on its 5 mile trip to all stations to Stratford , first stop Slivertown a mile down the line East End Trolleys - Bing video If this doesnt paste properly can find it on youtube under East End Trolleys as I think Bing might have blocked copying it Where I grew up in North London or should I say when I grew up there were TRolleybuses. Ran up the old A1 from Finchley to High Barnet. Funny how these environmentally sound things disappear isnt it 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 11, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, RobinofLoxley said: Where I grew up in North London or should I say when I grew up there were TRolleybuses. Ran up the old A1 from Finchley to High Barnet. Funny how these environmentally sound things disappear isnt it Unless you lived in sight of a coal fired power station as I did where I grew up.............can't complain I worked there after leaving school. Edited March 11, 2021 by Clive Mortimore 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 11, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2021 6 hours ago, cheesysmith said: Question, how does these compare? We have from L-R a NNK cab then i think craftsman, then a DC kits with home made destination box. The NNK has a slight curved top, the CM curved top and sloping to the front, mine is flat topped. Wanting to do a 108 with box, and also a 115, so which to use? PS-surprised how well my home made bodge comes out in this photo. Hi Cheesy Which do you think is the best? It is your model. There is another choice, make your own. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 20 hours ago, RobinofLoxley said: Where I grew up in North London or should I say when I grew up there were TRolleybuses. Ran up the old A1 from Finchley to High Barnet. Funny how these environmentally sound things disappear isnt it Not only individually sound as units , they carried 70 people compared to 56 on the AEC RT series that replaced them so they needed 20% more diesel buses to replace them. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 18 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said: Unless you lived in sight of a coal fired power station as I did where I grew up.............can't complain I worked there after leaving school. I grew up in a coal fired house. I used to pretend that the fireplace was the firebox of a Collet 0-4-2. One day before my parents came home I left the poker ( which I pretended was the pricker ) in the fire. When I went to get it out it was so hot I dropped it on the carpet . I was horrified at the thrashing I thought I was going to get as a load of smoke came up as it burnt the carpet , but to my good fortune it fell exactly on a black line on the carpet and and the burn mark went undetected until we moved away several years later. One of my luckier escapes ! 3 1 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 12, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2021 We had a coal fire when I was a kid. It wasn't until I grew up that I found out the ritual of the incantation containing many non RMweb words my father did each morning wasn't necessary for the fire gods to get the thing going. 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 34 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said: We had a coal fire when I was a kid. It wasn't until I grew up that I found out the ritual of the incantation containing many non RMweb words my father did each morning wasn't necessary for the fire gods to get the thing going. My grandad had a coal fire, we had gas - however I do remember helping him get the fire going with wood offcuts and paper, plus putting the shovel up against the fire with a sheet of paper to create an updraft to get it roaring - I was only 4 or 5 at best. Cannot imagine letting a child that age be allowed to play with fire now. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 13, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 13, 2021 Sorta done some trains fings tonight. Got some coach bits out and some drawings planing to where the cutting will take place. Oh how we giggled at "we can have a wee wee, We can have a wet on the wall" 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Feeling like a mad scientist , want to shot "it`s alive" in my best DR Frankenstein impression. Will show photos tomorrow. Muuuh Haaa Haa Haaa. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 1 hour ago, cheesysmith said: Feeling like a mad scientist , want to shot "it`s alive" in my best DR Frankenstein impression. Will show photos tomorrow. Muuuh Haaa Haa Haaa. How's it going to be alive if you've shot it 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now