30,000 SUBSCRIBERS! So I drove a Leyland National bus! On the road! 

Congratulations Ian, I’m proud to be a member of the HubNut 30K club. You have handsomely rewarded us 👍🏻

Brilliant video I wonder what the next mile stone holds in store. I reckon a bin lorry you could clean your garage out 😂😃😆😁👍👏

My name is Robert Dunn, and I approve this bus. Also, congrats on the milestone!

"Get em buses out" Butler! 😂 We've had holiday and mutiny on the buses! Now we have "Hubnut on the buses"

Congratulations ian! You deserve the subs and more with all the effort you put in. Keep it up

I was Apprenticed as a coachbuilder at Wadham Stringers in Waterlooville Hampshire in the late seventies,I remember the staff drivers driving the bare chassis back from Dennis in Guildford with trade plates on,in an exposed drivers seat,and wearing a warm jacket and motorcycle crash helmet,what a sight,I moved one in the yard once and it wheel spinned,oh shit!

There's no RU-vidr out there who deserves 30k subs more than you Ian. Absolute joy to watch, keep up the good work!

You were celebrating 30k subscribers. Watching this video 3 years after and you have 107k now. What an achievement Ian.

I travelled often on this exact Pennine bus , many moons ago. Mainly Settle to Skipton (North Yorks). great vid! Well done for 30k....well deserved.

Driving a bus is an art form, driver sitting ahead of the front wheels is a strange sensation. Great vid 👍

That was a trip down memory lane! I must have driven many, many 10s of thousands of miles in Nationals - some good, some bad.

If Ian was going to drive a bus, was it ever going to be anything else other than a Leyland National? What a superbly appropriate video to celebrate this amazing milestone, many congratulations!

CONGRATS ON 30,000 SUBSCRIBERS!! Perfect way to celebrate i love that you do old buses too im a major fan of them loving your content as always here's to plenty of more subscribers!!

Well done on 30,000 subscribers Ian , thanks for the great content - And thanks for this great Leyland National video - more of these in future please !

Love to drive a Leyland National, always loved the sound of those engines and the way the body leans over when cornering!!!

Wonderful! I remember the smoke that used to belt out the back of the Nationals around south Bristol back in the 90’s. The operator was called “Sky Blue” but the sky was black behind the bus. Irony!

.A well deserved milestone. I hope Hubnut lives for many years. My favourite RU-vid channel.

Congrats at Wow! 30,000! Your gimbal is always nodding in agreement. I made a strange movement with my head when hearing Michelotti designed it. I love buses. I've had three Michelotti designed cars.

Leyland Nationals still in service on the railway. LEV1. LEV2 and R3 were experimental single car Leyland National rail buses on motorised wagon chassis tested in the late 70's and early 80's. These led to production versions as Pacers and Skippers and a bogied version that became Class 153. Many were exported to see service in countries such as USA, Ireland and Iran. Class 153 and Class 142 are still in service on Britains Railways.

I used to live 2 miles from the factory where they were made near Workington . Often used to see them on test drives as well as going to school on them in the 1970s . Brought back memories : happy days !

Pennine Motor Service of Gargrave and Skipton, sadly ceased trading in May 2014.

Great videi. I remember driving the Leyland National mk1. It was nippy but really heavy on fuel. Inching along in traffic would soon see you run out of air pressure. I would still rather have one today than the Enviro 400's we use.

I drove one of the first Leyland National buses for the Northern bus Company based at Winlaton Depot. They were a breath of fresh air after driving the old style buses with crash boxes. They were great to drive, light controls and easy to handle. Great buses. The happiest days of my life.

Anyone else notice, this is the first time HubNut has got behind a vehicles WHEEL and it hasn't broken down Within 20 minutes ;) Bravo Bravo Ian ...................................

Wahey! Congrats on the 30k. The sounds of that National took me right back to my school days. Especially the crashing, clattering over bumps and the slow gearchanges.

Congrats on the 30,000 subs. Only recently discovered your channel & I'm so glad that I did. Keep up the great work

Great video for celebrating 30,000 subscribers! Thought the roads looked familiar - Selby by pass, then A19 and past our old pub 'The Wheatsheaf!' I agree with you, bus suspension's got no more comfortable!

Mr HubNut was so much concentrated on driving the old bus that he did not even noticed those wonderful pantograph wipers !

Congratulations. Glad I found this channel, so educating and unlike anything anyone else does here on the Tube. Truly unique, keep doing what you're doing. Until the next milestone.

Nice work Hubnut - thoroughly deserved.

I can understand why HubNut is popular. He is comes across as good bloke, and that is nice to see whether your interested in old cars, or not.

STAY ABOVE 50!!!!!! Listening to the noises...sound of the engine and the rattle of the windows... Brings back memories of my youth Brilliant video Ian

Congrats on 30,000 subscribers. You deserve all of them since you sacrificed so much to produce the best possible videos for us despite having so many other prior commitments. Hubnut has been my favorite RU-vid channel for sometime now and I've bought merchandise and donated cash whenever I could to help the channel. I work in IT so I'm not a huge fan of Patreon due to their previous lack of security on their data handling but will continue to give through PayPal. Once again, thank you for all you do and im excited for this channel's future. Pschouuuuu!

So well deserved Ian, Best motoring channel on You Tube 👍

So many memories of a mischievous childhood spent traveling on those fantastic buses.

I was a truck mechanic at a Leyland dealer in the 70's, the 510 engine was a disaster as you know, a funny story here. I was traveling from my home town to work one morning, my car was broken down so I caught the bus as you do! It was a Leyland national that was rattling like f--k & smoking like a bonfire, I said to the driver "it's going to break down" as the 510 had a real problem with (amongst many others} the injection pump couplings that broke up. After the journey had started the driver stopped at the town center, picked up more passengers & pulled away again, just as he changed gear a massive series of bangs & rattles, the pump coupling got scared of the dark & came out from under the bus which stopped straight away, it rolled across the pavement straight through the plate glass window of the local Woolworth's door, shattering it completely, glass everywhere, it was funny! (no one injured} I was late for work! That's it, the National was a good looking bus with some great concepts but suffered from the lack of development like many British products of the era.

Congratulations! Trent Barton in Derby used these buses right up to the 00s

Congratulations on 30k subs, roll on 40k......Lovely bus 🚌 real character.

The MCW Metropolitan buses were something I grew up with in Reading. These buses were awesome, but the Leyland Nationals were good too.

Yes fond memories of the Leyland National in Crosville colours. Great stuff

Well done Ian,always look forward to watching your content,when it pops up,,its nice to watch a channel(is that what we call it)..that relates to past vehicles, that we can all relate too,good or bad,, once again well done.

The national along with the fleatline were the mainstay of travel west midlands brings back memories

I used to maintain these as an apprentice with WMPTE one of my favourite buses. Very light front ends, many of these buses were involved in front end accidents having failed to turn corners in the wet, with so little weight up front. The 510 produced some ear shattering noise with the engine covers open on road test 😁 ... ahhh the memories.

Hi, my child hood memories of this bus growing up in the 70's is very vivid. I went to Bogner Reigis back in the seventies . Coach down to London then train down to Bogner. On way back the National Express coach wasn't able to leave Brent Cross because the front door wouldn't close. So we sat for Two hrs waiting for a back up bus. And when it arrived it was a Leyland National. We stupidly sat at the back window and my mum was cursing the noise of this engine clang away. It sounded worse than normal. Bristol Re was my fouvorite. Great vid

congrats you deserve it, I wish I had your energy and enthusiasm but alas I am getting on a bit lol

Just remembered the British rail class 142 "pacer" train 🚉 was built with a few bodies of this bus 🚍

That moment you put your hand up to the other bus and a wave of acceptance flushed through your body, you could hear the creak of the trousers getting tighter 😂😂 cracking video

Glorious. It sounds so different to the Leyland unit. I remember riding on them in 1972 - the very bollocks of the dog.

Marvellous. You seem to be right at home there; if you’re ever in North Essex you can come and have a go in some of ours. Oh, and can you cover a school run next week?!

Relatively new to the channel, but Congratulations on 30k!

I was born in 1984 and Thamesway used these and the following generations for years. Took me back to riding to school. Well done Hub Nut on 30k. Very much deserved. I know how you like older, rarer vehicles but if you ever wanted to see inside a modern DAF CF I've done a small tour about the one I was in yesterday, only if you want to have a look of course.

Hub Nut on my home patch! I drive those roads nearly every day. Fun fact, the power station he refers to as Drax is actually Eggborough. Drax can be seen in the distance towards the start of the video. Great to see him in my neck of the woods though.

I am a current coach and bus driver and even our newest Volvos don"t change as nice as that does thats computers for you lol.

Congrats on 30k keep on going being yourself with original content. Your vids are really factual and I can imagine are inspiring more people to jump on the hub nut way of life and get their own projects top work

Yay it was the bus I said about, cool. Sounded great as a kid. Congratulations on the big 30.

Ah the single decker of my childhood. There were loads of these in Sheffield in the 70's & 80's. Congrats on 30k! Allboard the Hub Nut Bus!!

Congrats on the 30k mate! Proper gearchanges there Ian, you should be proud, 2 second delay is needed due to the gearbox having bands in it which became brittle with fast changes. I own several preserved buses including a Volvo B10L which has the same engine in as JIL, scarily fast and you would've taken a while to get put of that layby if it still had a 510 in and the noise would've been horrendous as all 510 Nationals were...

Congrats on the 30K subs. I've yet to hit 1K. Giovanni Michelotti designed most of the post-war Triumph cars with the exception of the TR6 (Karmann), TR7 (Harris Mann who also did the Allegro and Princess) and the Acclaim (a Honda design). I remember the Leyland National busses. They were on every street corner back then.

I love this! My dad was a bus driver and used to drive Leyland Lynx Mark 1's and 2's, Optare Metroriders and my favourite, the Volvo Ailsa B55-10 which would rumble and rattle at idle on cold mornings. Loved the sheer noise of the things too and was really saddened when they were removed from service. The bus company (Cardiff Bus) does hold a rather enormous heritage fleet with all of these (and many more) in there which is awesome as there are still some in absolutely amazing shape!

I Remember "nipping into town" on these as a kid of a Saturday morning.....Well done on 30K !!!

Great video Ian!! Congrats on your subs thoroughly deserved. Ah!!! The B10M engine you cant beat it the noise and the speed!!! My school bus was a 1980 Leyland Leopard was a brilliant and fast coach with the 0.680 engine in. Sounded awesome too. But the best bus has to be the Bristol VR with the might 6LXB engine

I’ve driven plenty of these in service, both leyland and Volvo powered. The Volvo ones are quite quick,BUT the gearbox was never intended to handle that much power, so careful gearchanges are needed. In winter, the heat comes from vents in the ceiling...but heat doesn’t sink, it rises so your feet freeze!

I have just connected with my childhood. What I would do to travel back to the 70's and go for a ride on that on a sunny day on the IOW looking at the people and traffic. :-)

I bet when that bus driver waved you felt like one of the brotherhood that is bus drivers 😂

Here's to the next 30k! Keep on t(r)ucking Ian.

Congrats. I signed up this week ... Great content Mr Hubnut :) These national buses were also used as a base for British rail class 141 trains too.... Virtually the same to look at !

How did I miss this.....got to love a Leyland National 👍🇮🇲

Very cool. All those rattles an bangs bring back memories. Very cool to have reached 30,000. Brilliant work.

10:40 better than VW solution isn't it? Besides scientifically there is a direct relationship between diesel mpg power and emissions. Want less emissions then without filters you have to reduce power. Nice bus.

most bus drivers will tell you it's a great job if you didn't have to pick up passengers try a leyland leopard much better drive

Having driven buses for over 20 years i have never driven a National on the road. I can imagine that lovely volvo engine makes for easier work over the original Leyland lump. Great video once again 👏👏👏

"C'mon little Mini...or little big Mini" Ha so true! That looked like an R50, the R54 was bigger and the current F56 bigger still. The F55 is so big it now has 4 doors (5 door hatch)! But you already knew that I'm sure.

Remember getting on these Leyland Nationals to go to school back in the day, but I always prefered the Bristol VR with the Gardner engine.

Ah shame it doesn’t have the original engine but interesting vid.

I have so many fond memories of LN5 in service for Pennine Motor Services. My Dad was a driver for Pennine for many years. Great video!

Mid-70s, 'Eastern Counties' red with the original clattery engine, the pod on the roof.. and I'm a teenager again. Until then, all the buses were Bristols - mostly Lodekkas and REs. Bristol remained the double-decker bus of choice, but these were about for a long time - outlasting Eastern Counties certainly. And congrats on reaching 30,000 subscribers but in all fairness, it's no surprise. This is a very interesting channel full of diverse interest, served up in a relaxing and unpretentious style. It has become a 'go-to' for me on a daily basis.

*cough* A body of a Class 144 "Pacer" *cough loudly*

Served my time with Crossville fixing these. Happy memories , used to be able to change the gear box in about 2hrs putting a frame inside to lower it down .

Wonderful. I went to school everyday on a Leyland National. I do miss the sound of the original engine on those buses, and seem to remember the plumbs of diesel smoke which kids of my era were subjected to breathing in for many hours a week at bus stops all around the UK!

17:25 ...thanks for the Salute...😂👍

Good lord, we still had these as our school buses in the late 90s/early 2000s!

That's wild. Congrats HubNut👏👏👏

That lump sounds great!!! The old coach engines had the same assuring sound.Raw ,proper diesels.Don't start me on the old RR eagle diesels as used by Leyland in their tractor units back then! Your channel is nostalgic heaven to men of a certain age that like oily hands! Brilliant.Len.

my step brother used to drive the farmers busses. so would come home with a buss. was good fun playing in the bus in the evening. when I was about 10.

Back in the day I drove a National in service around Halifax, it still had the original Leyland engine & performed well up the Halifax hills. Being a bus enthusiast I would prebook it with the output dispatcher it when on early turns as there was only this one in our fleet.The engine & gearbox made great sounds & it had the same bangs & rattles as this example you were lucky enough to drive. It was great fun getting paid to drive one for a shift !! That wood would have been the ticket machine mount.

I was always happy to discover the next bus I was due to drive had a Volvo B10 engine fitted. They made the job so much easier compared to anything Cummins offered Dennis for their buses.

HubNutBus! Reminds me of the National a local firm (Koncept Travel) had only about 10 years ago, which still had a Leyland 510 engine. Oddly, the owner said school kids actually preferred it to his modern coaches.

WOW! Brings back so many Memories. I used to drive the Nationals for Chase Bus Services back in the day. Our whole fleet ‘bar 3’ were Mark 1 Nationals. To be honest I didn’t really like driving them particularly. All day clattering, banging, loud, Smokey to name a few. And as for that Semi Automatic GearBox! Let’s not go there! But they did the Job. And I needed a job at the time. So didn’t really care what it was. But after Chase Bus Services closed down Arriva Cannock Kept the Nationals for a short time but what happened to them after they couldn’t use them anymore lord only knows. I suspect they may have gone to private collections of worse possibly scrapped. Brilliant video as Always Mr 👌👌👌

Congratulations Mr Hubnut, much deserved and I hope the next 30K comes quickly!

In my days driving these in service, we found that resting the palm of the hand on the top of the handbrake made it easier to locate the various gear positions. It was good to see nicely timed pauses when changing gear.

over the moon at 30k here's to 30k more and beyond, proud to be HubNutter

Congratulations Ian!

You know what tight is when you have literally a thumbs width between either side of your bus and the mirrors of parked cars in a narrow street. Wellington (NZ) has many narrow winding streets and driving long buses along them is a lot of fun.

Orange colour makes it look like an Italian bus.. appropriate ! Michelotti did great work...

Well I never knew that Mr Michelotti the unsung genius that also designed the wonderful AEC/Leyland/Albion Ergo cab and the beautiful Scammell Highwayman/Tradesman cab as well as countless Triumphs too! What a cracking bus remember seeing one in East Finchley back it the seventies, thinking how it made the AEC Merlin (one of my favourite buses, even though they were rubbish compared to the Routemaster) look so old fashioned. You lucky thing.

The beauty of these old buses can drive them on a car licence which is pretty cool.

...Oh yeah, and congratulations on 30,000 subs!

My secondary school bus was one of these, green and white, it was very loud and rattled like a washing machine full of ball bearings. Thanks for taking me back and congratulations.

I most certainly am one of your 30,000 subscribers, and was most certainly blown away by this video. The Leyland National is such a throwback to my childhood too, along with the Bristol VR. Keep up the excellent work. I absolutely love your channel....!!

why, on Earth, am I watching a video of a man talking about a BUS on a Sunday morning? I have no idea, but I am loving it.