Great video. Enjoyed the small clip aboard the Bristol RE. The Bristol VR pulling away at 7:25 sounds superb with its gurgling exhaust.
@buckholdboy9672 жыл бұрын
Thank you,some good memories here.
@borderlands66065 жыл бұрын
I remember it well. New bus stops springing up everywhere, and corporation liveries replaced by rattle can and stencil paint jobs on life expired heaps. So much for competition.
@4681302 жыл бұрын
Thatcher had a lot to answer for.
@jacksugden81903 жыл бұрын
Remember the Bristol RE’s at Brentwood in 1983 with Eastern National.
@johnmills7716 Жыл бұрын
Interested mix of buses. Loved the first bus, so much character. Cheapskate operator using coaches as buses. Fortunately here in London bus deregulation didn't happen, TfL have control and routes a tendered to strict retirements, including using corporate London red livery.
@martinda744610 жыл бұрын
You've made my day you áve Butler....Get that bus out!
@نجاحعزيز-ه6ب4 жыл бұрын
AEC buses used in London and Baghdad
@isaywhatilikeandilikewhati11177 жыл бұрын
lol...I was driving Routemasters in London in the 80s and managed to avoid all this nonsense! Public Transport is subsidised either through local government ownership or through companies tendering + agreed subsidy for each route! These two ways are the only ways if one wants regular and reliable safe buses. I bet a load of the buses in this video would have failed inspections that day! lol
@johnpiper34165 жыл бұрын
Not a bad video but the copyright banner top left spoils it.
@GuitarstringMan8 жыл бұрын
God don't U just love those squeaky brakes
@Steve14ps4 жыл бұрын
A sad time for our buses. We seem to have gone from regulated services to de-regulation to self-regulation as every operator realised the futility of a bus war
@kelvinbremont13415 жыл бұрын
Ah Back when buses in the uk had awesome designs that were loved by all. Especially the Aec RT’s and Routemaster’s. The red double decker arriva buses are no problem tho I have a bit of a problem with the new routemaster’s simply because they look nothing like a routemaster bus.
@johngordon15765 жыл бұрын
Wasn't Margaret Thatcher's 'Transport Policy' wonderful ?
@YoloMenace0014 жыл бұрын
Yes it was and without it we wouldnt still have the bus war in Nottingham now
@johnmills7716 Жыл бұрын
Fortunately here in London we escaped the deregulation of bus services.
@YoloMenace0014 жыл бұрын
Btw the bus war still exists in Nottingham today
@joebutlersnr70173 жыл бұрын
People tend to think the minors got a bad deal from that hag Thatcher but so did bus driver's , I took a £40 cut in wages in 86 and another £30 in 93, it was an absolute horrible time .
@rlarchive11 жыл бұрын
UK Buses 1986-1987 - Bus wars. DVD out now
@The-Wanderer747 жыл бұрын
Richard Lomas Archive great nostalgia trip,does the dvd contain anymore Camms footage?
@mufc105298 жыл бұрын
Funny nobody is on these buses
@nigeldunwell812 жыл бұрын
Bloody hell!
@كلاسيك-ت9ك4 жыл бұрын
احلى واجمل باص بالعالم
@dommidavros22116 жыл бұрын
Ok I'm half way through this and still waiting for the "Bus War" that you promised in the title!
@maxineroberts409510 жыл бұрын
Buttler
@dave10015 жыл бұрын
Stevo's had the crappest buses ever
@alandigweed87132 жыл бұрын
I remember sitting in a meeting of one of the national operators trying to figure out how to stop a local operator from gaining more customers. The decision was taken to lower the fares and increasing the frequency, driving the local operator off the route and eventually out of business. A common practice at the time. So much for free market competition as the brain washed Tories used to talk about
@hrxy19 жыл бұрын
boring
@trainrover5 жыл бұрын
I hear you..me, I usually praise archival footage yet most of this here filming was godawful..oh well.