Public and Commercial Transport

[mickthemaverick]

Could you post the original version of the tanker please Neil, I'm curious!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Could you post the unmolested original version of the tanker please Neil, I'm curious!!

Here it is...bit out of focus but nice enough

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Thanks Neil, my curiosity is satisfied with the 'Hot Food'. I couldn't make out what the black rectangle was!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Thanks Neil, my curiosity is satisfied with the 'Hot Food'. I couldn't make out what the black rectangle was!!

Just above the cab in the background on the original you may just make out the name Hardy.

More your trout and salmon and fly fishing traditional name and long established firm, but they would be mad not to make other gear now. er...their website looks like they are still paddling round exclusively in their traditional market

https://www.hardyfishing.com/

Neil

[Gibbo2286]

Borrowed from the Birmingham history forum, I travelled on this a few times as a lad, a bus adapted to run on gas during the war.

[NewcastleFalcon]

On a bit of a trivia link from Ilford a recent subject on the Remember these all our yesterdays thread, on geograph put Ilford in the browser search, and if you do nothing it defaults to within 2km.

This pulled up these images of the Barking Bus Garage from David Kemp and co-incidentally old favourite Alan Murray-Rust who supplied wiki commons with the photograph of the last mainline steam hauled journey before steam was officially axed in 1968, reproduced on the One for the train buffs thread...

...and yes another landmark end of an era event to record, the last journey of the iconic London RT bus, route 62 ending up at the afore-mentioned Barking Bus Garage (and a mere stonesthrow from Ilford!), with a parade following on to mark the occasion.

Here's Alan's end of an era pictures, click on the thumbnails for larger images.

The end of an era – 1979

© Copyright Alan Murray-Rust and
licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

London's last RT buses on parade

© Copyright Alan Murray-Rust and
licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

and one of David's from a 40th year anniversary event in 2019

Line-up of RT buses inside Barking bus garage

© Copyright David Kemp and
licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

The Series 1 episode 1 of Retro Electro Workshop just keeps giving.

The Bryan Double Decker machine

Its a sort of tipping point penny falls game with two "decks" and the added animation of a matchbox double decker bus whizzing from side to side on a rocker arrangement for each of the decks. The game featured briefly in the episode

This is a short example of its operation



For the chapter and verse this links to quite an engaging more detailed longer presentation, down to the wheels of the standard matchbox double decker being changed by "Bryan" to brass to run on the rockers.

https://youtu.be/TW-VeFnA_iA

Neil