100 YRS SOUTHDOWN BUSES

!00 years of Southdown Buses, Marine parade, Worthing West Sussex
Sunday 5th July 2015. Lots of action including clearing up windscreen glass from KUF 199F after having a mirror hit by a passing bus and listen to the glass falling when moving KUF 199F into the Stagecoach Bus Depot
10 minutes of Nostalgia

[@taxidude]

Lovely to see restored and maintained vintage vehicles still doing what they were designed to do and not just static exhibits in a museum. Well done everybody involved!

[@mervynluckvideosetc]

it was a great effort by everyone involved

[@humayunkabir9279]

Great, . I use to commute on these busses in-between 1975 and 1979 from old stean to shohram by sea while I was studying insussex . Good old days and good old memories. Thanks for the vedio

[@mervynluckvideosetc]

Thanks for sharing

[@searleflesher6689]

I was born and raised in Southdown territory seeing these buses bring back many childhood memories of days in Brighton and visiting my grand parents

[@DrivermanO]

I was born and brought up in Worthing. I remember these buses when they were brand new - even been on them, particularly 412 DCD ! And I've still got my Ian Allan bus spotters book from mid 1960s! Sad, I know, but buses and trains were the rage then! And I wandered round that garage many times!

[@mervynluckvideosetc]

It's not sad to keep a memory - thank you for your comments

[@steveluckhurst2350]

Not a bus afficionado, but born and raised on the south coast which is what drew me to this video. Am I alone in thinking that the "T plate" single decker still looks modern? Hard to believe that it's over 40 years old!

[@mervynluckvideosetc]

They are all great buses

[@robertgaudry2826]

Beautiful buses

[@tattyshoesshigure5731]

Some beautiful buses there, immaculately turned out! I particularly like the single deck ‘Worthing’ bus… reminds me of the TD’s that used to run in North London during the 1950’s - early ‘60’s!

[@mervynluckvideosetc]

It was a great bus rally

[@carlnapp4412]

I'm always impressed how easy the old british Diesels sound. By the way, when it comes to colours on a bus or a lorry the British are in class of their own.

[@ampersand.]

Wonderful - thanks for sharing these lovely vehicles` day out :)

[@mervynluckvideosetc]

It was one of the best Bus Rallies held in Worthing West Sussex

[@thomasarmstrong3804]

Always well presented Fleet of Vehicles

[@mervynluckvideosetc]

This was a great bus rally

[@threegoldmartlets]

I do miss the unique Southdown green and cream colour scheme. 🥲

[@mervynluckvideosetc]

Great buses and a fantastic bus rally

[@anth5122]

I just wonder if any of these Buses are Northern Counties, I work there from 1978 until it’s closure in 2005

[@mervynluckvideosetc]

Hello again , I really do not know! My interest in vintage buses is in the blood - An uncle of mine (long gone) worked for Eastern Coachworks Lowestoft

[@dancedecker]

Yes, the "Queen Mary's", the Leyland PD3's were bodied by Northern Counties and a lovely job they made of them too in my humble opinion. They were the full fronted ,green and cream double deckers with forward entrance doors and registrations such as 410 DCD, 415 DCD etc. Cheers

[@larryduncan6756]

AS A BRIGHTON BORN AND ONE OF MY MUMS BROTHERS WAS A CONDUCTOR ON SOUTHDOWN FROM DEMOB TO RETIERMENT THE FILM BROUGHT B ACK MEMS FOR ME AS A NOW(ON 4TH OCT) A 74 YR OLD EX CARPENTER....FOR AN UNKOWN REASON HE WAS CALLED 'SANDO'...ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW HIM FROM THEN OR HOW HE GOT HIS NAME?????

[@jamesfrench7299]

Is the National ex LT? Non of the other Southdown vehicles are dual door. Speaking of, it would have been good to hear it going. Only certain buses got the lion's share of coverage I noticed.

[@dancedecker]

No, I'm fairly certain that if you mean YCD75T, that was new to Southdown because CD is a Brighton registration. It's sometimes the case that a bus company will cancel an order and they then get sold on to another operator instead, but I've rarely, if ever, heard of LT cancelling an order, so I'm as certain as I can be, without checking in depth, that the National was new to Southdown and was almost certainly ordered by them too I understand why you ask that, as LT are rare amongst operators in having mostly dual doored vehicles, but quite a few NBC companies had them, through overall, there were not as many as the single doored versions. Hope this helps.

[@jamesfrench7299]

@@dancedecker humongous help. I have a model of a Northern General dual door 11.3m length Leyland National with the NBC logo so that indicates to me they ordered dual doors in some of their fleets, but my impression from observing videos and photos from Australia was that the bulk of buses outside London tend to be single door, including NBC. Australia's 200 odd 10.3m, 10.9m intermediate length Nationals and our sole 11.3m demonstrator from 1972 were all dual door. I saw a pic of one that got converted to single door with a private country operator.

[@dancedecker]

@@jamesfrench7299 Glad that my mutterings were of some value to you. Yes, my local NBC operator was Ribble and they had both versions. What seemed to happen was that certainly in Ribble's case, is that they bought twin doored ones early on, but then perhaps realised that they didn't always need them and subsequent orders would be single door examples. Plus where the second door would have been, on a single door one, you could put extra bums on a seat, which of course is a consideration. That said, a T regd one like the Southdown one in the video, was quite a late order in the great scheme of things, so maybe it was used on a heavily trafficked route that needed good passenger flow? Anyway, that's my pennyworth for what it is. Cheers.

[@jamesfrench7299]

@@dancedecker That would explain why my yellow Northern General model has the long pod! I appreciate learning that Southdown original was ordered late with dual doors. Obviously deemed an operational requIrement with such an uncommon spec outside London at that time. PS, I repainted it into a fictitious KFC all over advertising treatment years ago.

[@dancedecker]

@@jamesfrench7299 indeed. And yes, it was unusual by then outside of LT or Lothian, who also usually required twin doors on just about everything.

[@stevebarbier5602]

Proper buses........................

[@awtistiaeth4699]

I know we have to change the way we live and I accept that and try my best to play 'y part' in that, but surely we have to find a way of preserving just a little of the days of ICE. Heritage oil? Convert to recycled veggie oil, clean as can get it and accept it isn't a perfect world? I don't know but I want grandkids kids, to experience the excitement and the almost sentient nature of ICE (I know, I know). It has to go, but just as we have done with external-combustion engines, we need to keep a few going and even working. And no, I'm not an omnibus enthusiast.

[@malcolmmarshall4371]

I grew in the BATS area