LT/LCBS Bus Garages
Cannibalised RM 1343 at Bexleyheath Garage on 26 August 1982. If the bodywork looks reasonably tidy (especially for a New Cross bus) it`s because it only worked in service for a year following overhaul in 1974. Remarkably it languished in various locations thereafter and whilst other long term out of use RM`s in the 1970`s were eventually rebuilt, this one wasn`t.
It finally left LT in late 1983 having been one of the longest delicensed RM in stock.
I remember working on it as a conductor at Tottenham in 1975 when it had been left there overnight following a mechanical issue. We worked it back to New Cross and swapped it for the Tottenham bus that the New Cross crew had used to get home. I had never seen an RM interior so filthy as RM 1343 even though it was a fairly recent overhaul but it was typical of most NX buses.
LT/LCBS Bus Garages
Cannibalised RM 1343 at Bexleyheath Garage on 26 August 1982. If the bodywork looks reasonably tidy (especially for a New Cross bus) it`s because it only worked in service for a year following overhaul in 1974. Remarkably it languished in various locations thereafter and whilst other long term out of use RM`s in the 1970`s were eventually rebuilt, this one wasn`t.
It finally left LT in late 1983 having been one of the longest delicensed RM in stock.
I remember working on it as a conductor at Tottenham in 1975 when it had been left there overnight following a mechanical issue. We worked it back to New Cross and swapped it for the Tottenham bus that the New Cross crew had used to get home. I had never seen an RM interior so filthy as RM 1343 even though it was a fairly recent overhaul but it was typical of most NX buses.