Bristol FS cab-ride - Southern Vectis Bristol 570 (YDL 315)

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A short ride aboard showing 'the driver's eye view' aboard preserved Southern Vectis 1962 Bristol FS6G/ECW 570 (YDL 315) making a rare visit to 'Lodekka route 25' in Southend-on-Sea.
The video shows a 16-minute section of journey from Thames Drive in Leigh-on-Sea to Leigh town centre and from there to Chalkwell Schools, before heading back along the main London Road A13 to Highlands.
Thanks to Alex Harris for kindly filming this for me - as I was rather busy driving at the time!
With grateful thanks to Nigel and Alex Harris, and owner Derek Priddle for the great pleasure of being able to sample this Lodekka, a delight to drive. This was the first Bristol FS I've ever driven - and the first time I've driven a Lodekka like this since 1980.

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27 май 2015

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Комментарии : 18

@robertmatthews8302 9 лет назад

Thanks John, Another good video. Brings back some old memories when I was test driving my repairs at CMS Whitehaven Depot.(in early to mid 1970's)

@johng.lidstone2236 4 года назад

Thank you, Alex kindly filmed it as it was me driving!

@thisiszaphod 9 лет назад

Thoroughly enjoyed that. Kudos to the driver, and all involved.

@johng.lidstone2236 9 лет назад

thisiszaphodbeeblebr How nice of you to say, thank you! As I mentioned below, I last drove Lodekkas in 1979/80 and I had no 'practice run' before this and the other video posted with it. Best wishes.

@johng.lidstone2236 4 года назад

thank you, the driver was me (filmed by a lady for me). Very nice of Nigel and Alex from IoW and Derek Priddle, who owns the bus, to make it possible.

@289chevimpala 5 лет назад

Nicely driven old son! I thought the route was vaguely familiar. I used to drive these out of Basildon garage in the early 1970's. You know you'd done a days work after driving these brutes for a day! Stick shift and no power steering!

@johng.lidstone2236 4 года назад

thank you most kindly. Stick shift and crash gearbox.

@leighnassau1158 4 года назад

Double de clutch ?

@289chevimpala 4 года назад

@@leighnassau1158 Every gear change! and 5th gear on the "wrong" side of neutral. You had to go through 4th gear to get to neutral!

@busdrivernick 4 года назад

Great video thoroughly enjoyed the ride 🚍👍🏻

@2780john 9 лет назад

Top class driver. Unusually quick upchanges, too. On sister SV 573 they are MUCH slower! Maybe 570 is a very rare example of a Lodekka with a functioning clutch stop!

@johng.lidstone2236 9 лет назад

***** Thank you John, very kind of you to say, especially as I last drove Lodekkas in the summers of 1979 and 1980 and that's a year or two ago now. Yes 570 has a functioning clutch stop, something Eastern National Bristols I drove didn't have. Best wishes!

@johng.lidstone2236 4 года назад

Thank you kindly - I was the driver! Yes, working clutch stop which was sweet. I hadn't driven a Lodekka since 1979, so as this was 2015, I don't think I did too badly.

@IrishvintageTVRadio Год назад

@John G. Lidstone Finding someone who knows what a clutch stop is hard these days. The TD4 in our museums' clutch stop is wore out threw lack of understanding.....

@davidrobinson6204 6 лет назад

Remember the great sound of going to & from school on a Bristol Lodekka (Lincolnshire Roadcar)Who is the driver? Very professional

@johng.lidstone2236 6 лет назад

That's a kind comment. I am the driver in the video - I first drove Lodekkas in 1978 and I hadn't driven one for many years before the kind opportunity to drive this one.

@kevvywevvywoo 5 лет назад

you got the double declutching right first time, I could hear the squeaky clutch pedal!

@michaelgoulding6609 3 года назад

to me,these look like a bus,& it was a pleasure to be on one,the new buses that are out now,well they do the job,but thats about it,they don,t even look like a bus,just horrible,i would leave the car at home if they still used these.