How To Drive A Bus With Fuzz Townshend | Driving a 1960s Fleetline Classic Bus

[@BigBrother1993]

Amazing video Fuzz!

[@pizzaboy12345]

Big Brother is always watching.

[@SimplyLuke]

@@pizzaboy12345Can’t wait for your next video Pizza boy, please review Pizza Hut next

[@Cargirl99]

@@pizzaboy12345are you at vimto?

[@pizzaboy12345]

​@@SimplyLuke Thanks buddy, maybe we can do a collab if you want a slice of the action?

[@gwizz1474]

I really enjoyed that, thank you.

[@PeterSalter-u3f]

Top class video, top class man, keep rockin'. With your personality Fuzz, you deserve your own TV series. Us anoraks await!

[@ichosethishandle]

Lovely video! Pure Fuzz

[@Phil-oj5nr]

Have just clocked up just under 600,000km driving buses since 1981. That is a bit under 14,000 km per annum on average. Should get to that figure by March 2025. Started on Minibuses, then 22 seaters, and for the last seven years 34 to 51 seaters, all MAN’s with auto gear boxes. My 51 seater MAN has a Voith three stage auto, which is very smooth changing. It is a dual door SLF 3-axle model and can have 26 standees, but we use it for short metro charters and cruise ship shuttles, so only seated passengers. Really enjoy your bus videos, keep up the good work.

[@fenflyer]

Fuzz needs to make a TV series ....... restoration & driving classic British buses ...... could be more successful than bangers and cash 🇬🇧👍

[@Andrewstolarski]

I don’t think its sad your lucky to be able to own your a bus keep doing what you like doing Fuzz😊😊😊😊

[@Lighting_Desk]

I do love a vintage bus! And she isn no exception.

[@michaelkeen5010]

Thanks for the ride Fuzz.👍

[@larrybyrne111]

Just to say I enjoyed that!

[@McLoom1]

Excellent Fuzz …… I’m sure we all agree with you on wanting a bus …. I’ve driven the Irizar7 all fully comfort reliant driver equipment….. that clip shows though that you’ve gotta drive an oldie …. And You’d certainly know it’s the end of the day ….. great vid thank you Sssirrr🫡🫵👏👏🤩

[@allenhughes867]

Hello Fuzz as an ex-bus driver I drove Leyland Atlanteans (Charles Roe) every day, we then drove MCWs and Later Scanias, comfort and safety of passengers at all times.

[@Ash-gtr32]

The MCW Metrobus was my favourite bus when I was a kid, especially the "TimeSaver" limited stop service with the comfy coach seats.

[@David-uu3wq]

My grandad used to work for Brighton busses in Lewis road. I can remember going with him as a small child to the depot and taking a single decker through the bus wash. After that we went into the canteen for lunch and a chat with the other drivers. Precious memories ❤.

[@markpritchard]

I drove an ex London transport Routemaster for the first time the other day. Loved it.

[@barbarabartos1390]

Lovely video Fuzz - my dad (God bless him) drove for Stratford Blue in the late 40's, 50's and sixties. He was an excellent driver and was able to negotiate snowy roads in the winter with aplomb. Lots of fond memories, and your lovely video brought back memories of him - thanks.

[@Jones-xx2gc]

That bus reminds me of the ones that used to run out of Digbeth bus station in Birmingham before we moved to Lancaster in the 70's when you had Lancaster city buses and Ribble buses. Nice one.

[@getawayhs2856]

Brilliant film. I think Fuzz has that personality that can engage people with anything. More of Fuzz's fleet please...

[@Barry65_UK]

I truly envy you, I'm 64 and have loved Buses all my life. I have a large collection of model buses', however my dream has always been to drive one. That's a grand old lady you have there. Best wishes.

[@SimplyLuke]

Another great video Fuzz, watch out for those trees!!

[@baz9438]

Most bus drivers chuck their passengers all over the bus in my very limited experience on the things. However I came across a lady bus driver driving an open top bus in Scarborough and she proved to me it can be done nicely 👌. Great little film,cheers 👍

[@robinjohnhill7556]

What a great combination - one of my favourite presenters driving a bus.

[@Bevoin1970]

During the 1970s I would ride one of those exact same buses, Livery too, to school and back every day in Walsall. Takes me right back. 🙂

[@markevans2280]

Yes it’s the wmpte colours, I used to travel to school in Walsall in one of these, always fascinated me how such a small lever changed gears

[@robertmatthews8302]

Takes me back to my bus mechanic days, 1970's,80's and 90's and the many road tests, breakdowns etc. I attended during that time. 😊

[@Cargirl99]

Wow great driving skills fuzz!

[@markwinters1216]

Great ride Fuzz. As a kid I always liked to sit upstairs at the front above the driver.

[@nicholasbuttery511]

West Milands Travel apart from Midland Red were the only buses seen around Birmingham which were the same Home and Away kit of Birmingham City Football Club. As a teenager Ticket Tugging running upstairs with a continuous streamer of ticket and then opening the emergency rear door with silver foil wrapped around card from old cigarette packets to stop the alarm being engaged . I Loved The 1980`s !

[@johnmontgomery9149]

Excellent drive and video Fuzz. Most of my 35 years driving career in Fleetlines. Thanks for the memories.

[@GrahamWP58]

High Bridge Decker 14'6" then Fuzz not a Low Bridge Decker 13'8". Started driving Bristol VR deckers RE dual purpose no power steering wth both electronic shift and air shift. Passed my test on a Leyland PD2 crash box. I retired in January and what a change in bus design in the last 36 years. Great to watch you drive the old girl

[@metalman4141]

Landsail Tyres are fabulous and extremely good quality and value for money.

[@mickmiller9936]

Until your on a wet road and you literally land sail into a hedge 😂😂

[@ChloeSandiford]

Another great video Fuzz! Love the bus. And the funky hat. Ha ha 😂

[@johncatesby3994]

Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional. Keep on playing whatever takes your fancy (cars, buses, lorries, boats, planes, trains, full size or model)

[@coocoo9591]

you can take me to work anytime Fuzz 😃

[@andyniner9247]

Hey Fuzz, I love the old Fleetline, I passed my test in one of those over 30 years ago at Perry Parr garage. We never drove them so gently in service on the Bristol Road though! I hope you and the family are all well.

[@orlandostead8703]

Thats what we like to see Fuzz, feed the wheel son feed the wheel.

[@martianmusic1]

Happy days! I started out in my blue overalls at Miller Street Birmingham. Just after I started, they tore off the lovely Birminham city coat of arms and stuck on, WMPTE. We had a mix of fleetlines and old half-cab Daimlers and Guys with Wilson pre-select gearboxes. One lesson that hurt was when helping the fitter adjust brake bands. I was in the cab on the pedal while he shouted which gear to select. I didn't press the pedal hard enough and it shot right out of the floor trapping my little leg under the steering wheel. The fitter had to climb on me in the cab and push the pedal back down. Owwww😢

[@martinhudson2552]

Great video and great driving there 👍🙂

[@raymills8298]

hi fuzz a great introduction to driving a double decker bus

[@kevinwoodruff8994]

Enjoy the ride fuzz what a beautiful old bus I'm a bus enthusiast myself I call them big boys toys.

[@matttaylor1372]

Beautiful bus. Enjoyed the video Fuzz 👍

[@stephenplatt2078]

Now Fuzz, get that Bus out, Stephen.

[@d220219b]

Great videos Fuzz. I knew exactly where you were on that trip, about 10 miles from my front door.

[@fenpikey]

Same here.....used to live 10 miles a bit further up. Also used to go to a farm just off the roundabout.

[@jamesmatthew9404]

Brilliant Fuzz, spot on..

[@jackbeam56]

Love to see Fuzz again 🙂

[@jessehalper]

Imagine that's your gran walking down the aisle my instructor used to say. I never forgot that.

[@ptonpc]

Thank you for taking us with you. Why have a bus? Why not?

[@rossmcgarrie9787]

Really enjoyed your bus 🚍 run Fuzz. Keep up the good work as I love your work Pal. 👍

[@thomasrose7713]

Love Fuzz and Fuzzes Busses more !

[@mattlevin2205]

They were using these as our schools buses at one time.

[@SimplyLuke]

Did they?

[@ChloeSandiford]

Mine too 😂😂😂

[@siwynjones]

They used one as ours too, in Wales but still in WMPTE colours.

[@martinshepherd6756]

When a student in Birmingham we had the Fleetlines and Metroboxes. We always preferred the Fleetline, especially if it was running empty to Hockley garage It was a guaranteed fast ride!

[@sambee8982]

6:21 I have a number of bus models mainly in RoadCar livery, so I still like playing buses too! lol😂 I've got an East Lancs Vyking in the RoadCar Connect 6 livery from 2001, an MCW Metrobus in standard RoadCar livery, a Wright Axcess Scania in the RoadCar Connect 6 livery from 1999, a Leyland Leopard, again in standard RoadCar livery and a Leyland National in the similar looking Yorkshire Terrier livery, which is RoadCar's sister company as it was another Yorkshire Traction Group owned company, but a number of RoadCar's Leyland Nationals did bear the Yorkshire Terrier livery when they got transferred to them though.

[@doctortinkle3834]

Great video Fuzz, more please!

[@raymondgawthorne6570]

Absolutely brilliant video Fuzz! Enjoyed my little trip aboard your classic bus. Would love to have a go sometime.👍

[@kathrynwhitby9799]

used to ride them a lot when visiting the rele's in Brum.

[@valentapaxman]

Nothing sad about enjoying your bus, as long as it makes you happy.

[@Francis292]

I remember buses like that in Coventry, but they didn't have the middle door.

[@Sdnk45]

Great fuzz ua star

[@anthonyhawkins9432]

Hi Fuzz mate,i loved your video on your bus,it was great seeing it in action,i recently watched that episode of Shed and buried where you bought that Blue Coach,that was also very smart,i'am lucky i get to play buses everyday as i drive them for a living in london,have driven RMs aswell,MCW,Volvos,Dennis,Wrights,Daf the lot,but my all time favourite is the MCW.keep up the good work mate cheers.

[@andrewdavidhill4601]

Brings back memories the travel WM buses in the 70 s 80s in Walsall, Wolverhampton, Birmingham & West Bromwich. I remember catching the 341 from Walsall to Willenhall

[@keithingram44]

Thanks fuzz I was a bus driver for 34 years when I first started we VR Bristol ps you couldn’t fix me beloved focus up could you 😁👍

[@JoanneWallace-o4y]

I’d love to ride that bus(z)

Still a nice looking vehicle 👍

[@tomcat7525]

Fuzz, you're the classic.😄You have some amazing vehicles. Life is too short to drive anything boring. 👍

[@oxfamshop]

Really liking the video. Great stuff Fuzz. Why do you have a bus ? Why not ? 😀😀

[@melissanewton7462]

Brilliant Fuzz! Have been allowed to drive Fleetlines, an Atlantean, Bristol VRT and even a Dennis Dart all of road. Rally sites and our local bus depot. Also a crash gearbox Bristol KSW with a little help!

[@greenberlina]

Not sad at all Fuzz. Nostalgic 😎

[@mikemulrooney4824]

Good vid

[@stevedoubleu99B]

You need a Leyland Leopard with semi auto in your fleet Fuzz, I'm sure you are aware of the fantastic sound they made. I used to drive them at Grey Green in London.

[@MegaBreadvan]

Excellent video. I'm a non driver, but I remember we had some similar ex WMPTE Fleetlines at my ex employers at Midland Fox. In the local area GK Kinch and British Shoe Corporation had some too around that time. Greetings from over here in France!

[@davidcoleman5246]

Never understood why i would suffer with travel sickness on the corporation buses, but never on Midland Red. If i was travelling on that bus, i'd be standing next to Fuzz with the door open. Great video, regardless of the memories, thanks Fuzz.

[@kathrynwhitby9799]

i think they leaked a bit of the diesel fumes into the passenger cabin.

[@6panel300]

If my knowledge is correct you are a week younger than me, which means you have reached a milestone birthday in the last few days. I'm glad to see you haven't grown up. That bus takes me back to my school days. I remember th school bus fare shot up from 5p to 15p in one week and all the school kids protested so much the bus drivers went on strike. Happy days. 1 question, is that power steering or armstrong steering.

[@russellmalone3532]

Great stuff Fuzz. Next time I see you drumming I will have to pop over to say hi. ps if you and Tim are bored I have a XK 140 fhc that needs a total restoration

[@peteredwards338]

Imagine driving that bus for a full shift ! Exhausting !

[@stoatrepublic]

I have a 1975 Daimler(Leyland) Fleetline with flat windscreen which was a real pane because of the headlights of oncoming cars got reflected back, they then went to a curved windscreen.

[@mistermoptser]

I remember going into town on buses like that in the 70s-80s. When I heard the sound it took me right back. I can still picture the square tickets with the half circle cut out at the top strewn over the floor and fag ends upstairs. Oh, and if you sat at the front upstairs, when the bus went around a corner there would be a ball bearing run through the hollow handrail.

[@stephenplatt2078]

Hi Fuzz, you can teach me to Drive a Bus, cheers Stephen.

[@waichow5887]

Does the bus have power steering. Also, can you talk about how the semi automatic gear box with its short gear stick.? My father was a bus driver in Hong Kong in 1950 to 1990s. We have Leyland fleetline double decker buses then Thank you so much.

[@robertp.wainman4094]

A good driver (which I'm sure your father was!) can make the smoothest changes possible with the pneumocyclic semi-automatic gearchange......but a bad driver can make the bus - and the passengers literally jump up and down!

[@shaunbarrett5599]

Never drove an atlantian but we had titans and bristol vr's when i drove in Swindon many years ago

[@remjet2512]

Nothing wrong with being a bit childish. Your enthusiasm really comes through. Nice to see the bus being driven properly. Not many drivers did when in service.

[@klockwood3441]

I drove one of these buses after passing my PSV license for East Yorkshire Motors around Hull. I notice that there is a fare box for the passengers money. These buses would skid in the wet on a banana skin. Good old days.

[@ckck7916]

My dad was a bus Driver for the western national Totnes thank you so much if I had abus it the Bristol su s or the Bristol FLF

[@Mike_5]

Imagine buying a Dayrider ticket and then Fuzz takes you off route on a random journey! wild

[@6panel300]

Sounds good to me.

[@Mike_5]

@@6panel300 Same 🙃

[@UhtredRagnarsson1949]

Hiya! Fuzz, I drove heavy goods for 25 years; so I know just what a pain in the ass overhanging trees are, lol. 🌳🌳🌳

[@keithhooper6123]

A friend owns seven buses(was nine). Only one in the road,1961 Atlantean "Earl Howe",ex Devon General. Took thirty five from near Yeovil to Weymouth,last week.

[@adjo82]

What an effort to drive that bus, fair play to the drivers of old.

[@ATVHOLICS]

Great video! I was a bus & coach driver too. BTW did SOS eventually turn into Top Gear? Looked like it was headed in that direction. Shame if it did, SOS was my all time favourite car prog.

[@iancrompton2597]

I passed my test, on a parking's diesel double clutch. Nobody ever started a bus in first gear. Only exceptions were steep hills.

[@samcattell1150]

I've never had any involvement in buses but I too want a double decker as a toy, preferable a TWM MCW metrobus. Loved them as a child. Think it is the unique sounds they make 😂

[@davesouthall3834]

Sad git. I love it. Where can I get one. 😂

[@Joe-ug1vu]

I just about remember them buses with the middle door

[@bozz1954]

Had to smile when Fuzz said that the important thing is the comfort of the passengers. Try telling that to nxbus drivers, I've almost been on the floor or through the front window more than once and at 70 years old and with arthritis that's no fun. Great vid though

[@craiglaw9470]

Thanks for the ride John, takes me right back to my days at DY and WB when we were still keeping those superb machines on the road 👍🏻❤️

[@davepearson3992]

An empty bus is a happy bus

[@kevinbushell2746]

My favourite destination Not in Service

[@ablestringer9063]

I wish you could have explained the gear shift mechanism. I remember the same gear selector on Bristols and that was a pre-selector so you could just whack through the gears and each time you lifted off it would engage the next gear. Similarly on the Leyland Nationals I remember drivers just keeping their foot flat to the floor while shifiting and you would get a rev-out while it passed through neutral. So I am not sure what sort of gear set up this is where you have to match revs on the shifting in what appears to be a semi-auto.

[@kristinajendesen7111]

Get someone to let you have a good, long drive of the best bus ever Fuzz, a Routemaster. We used to start in auto 2nd (which is the same position as 4th), push the gear lever to 3rd when it changed up, get the most out of that then pull it back to 4th. Leaving it in auto only it would change into top too early. Of course with the wheels up front, point them around the corner and the rest would follow without having to worry about the overhang.

[@SabotsLibres]

I remember being in a WMPTE Fleetline hitting the trees going down Wake Green Road - but I think it was probably only the tips of the branches; nevertheless, they didn’t half make a noise…

[@Grid56]

Great drive, nice bus. Pretty busy with the steering wheel is that due to the wind or is the steering really vague and unsteady ?

[@AnthonyBennison]

Pleased to see you don't slam the gears through. I'm convinced that why a lot of my former colleagues have bad backs. A little rev between downward changes as well. It was quicker as well as no gear slip. I also loved the air box leopards & atlanteans that we had on Trent

[@mickkingston1450]

Hi Fuzz, I'm a ex hgv driver, but always wanted a bus , a classic bus. Do I need a psv licence to just drive it to bus shows and such like

[@LeeAllen-lq7ml]

I remember when i passed my PSV 35 years ago..i was told to remember that i am carrying the most Precious load in the world ..other peoples kids and Parents etc . I've retired now due to Ill Health

[@RSCOZZY]

Wish you all the very best with your health. Fascinating story 👍👍

[@evelynsutton4411]

Lovely bus Fuzz. Why is the steering wheel so flat? l would have thought it would make it harder to drive? Specially if you had a bad back!

[@petemoring67]

In 1970'ish Reading Borough Council bought what they called a fleet of JUMBO Buses - They were quite scary as they LOOMED down on you after seeing the old 'normal' buses all the time ... I'm pretty sure Your Bus was the model they bought ... Do You happen to know if it was - Or is there an even BIGGER bus from that era? - Because it seemed like a Really BIG Bugger at the time 🤠

[@kevinbushell2746]

Jump on a jumbo was the advert only Bristol VR s I past my test on Fleet no 65