Bus Sales at the former AEC factory site
Appropriate to today`s date, it was thirty eight years ago today that one of the biggest and most complex schedule adjustments took place on London Transport. 4 September 1982 was a landmark date on which the streets of London suddenly had over two hundred fewer Routemasters in service as the first significant withdrawals of fully serviceable RM`s began. Prior to this, only a few had been taken out of use through damage or wear and tear.
RM 1424 was withdrawn on that date and as one of the earlier arrivals at the Bus Sales site it got a place undercover. That caused it to become boxed in by later arrivals and it then spent nearly a year and a half below a pigeon roost before being extricated as a suitable bus for sale. When pictured here on 9 February 1984 it was being prepared to go for a chassis clean prior to sale to Piccadilly Bus Tours in Canada to whom it departed on 19 April.
Bus Sales at the former AEC factory site
Appropriate to today`s date, it was thirty eight years ago today that one of the biggest and most complex schedule adjustments took place on London Transport. 4 September 1982 was a landmark date on which the streets of London suddenly had over two hundred fewer Routemasters in service as the first significant withdrawals of fully serviceable RM`s began. Prior to this, only a few had been taken out of use through damage or wear and tear.
RM 1424 was withdrawn on that date and as one of the earlier arrivals at the Bus Sales site it got a place undercover. That caused it to become boxed in by later arrivals and it then spent nearly a year and a half below a pigeon roost before being extricated as a suitable bus for sale. When pictured here on 9 February 1984 it was being prepared to go for a chassis clean prior to sale to Piccadilly Bus Tours in Canada to whom it departed on 19 April.