Remember when you could rebuild things? Good times. Now days the body control modual would flip shit if you tried any of that, the seat structure wouldn't hold up long enough to warrent rebuilding, and the motor would have to have a rod hanging out the side before theyd even consider pulling it from service
I don't miss pavements carpeted with dog poo, fag smoke everywhere, smelly old people, grey streets, truly awful food, black and white publications but I miss the concept of public service and a state that enabled working people to live decent lives, live in safe homes and raise families. Thatcher depleted humanity in the U.K.
when we called the uk England & long before the dinghy invasion which by the way is costing the uk taxpayer £10 million each day thanx Tony blair hope you are enjoying youre gold pension ? youre alright jack!
And that's why everybody loved those old buses, they had a soul as they were not just throwaway objects. Treated that way with pride and TLC they could be used and re-used indefinitely.
This was at a time when it was realised that state enterprises could in many cases be tun more efficiently than fractionated private ones and without siphoning away tax funds in profit to tax havens. Such state enterprises were good for our economy and society and for the people that worked in them.
Unfortunately American Bankers(because it hasn't been British leadership in this role for yrs)bought up all the Engineering companies, I know I worked at Perkins Diesel Engines, when bought out 1500, people lost a job, me included , I just went back on the spanners in the local garages, but the pay was shite
What a fantastic little doc. Thanks for posting. ❤ Funny watching this. They said the RT's were replacing the trolley busses. Interesting how they were replacing a less locally polluting vehicle with a diesel powered one. Now we have electric ones but at what cost? I think we should have kept trolley busses longer until we figured out a better one for the local and wider environment. We should have kept trams too. Now it costs countless millions to re-establish them. Crazy.