Hi all

While on the M3 just before junction 3 i saw an RM with French plates and towing a trailer. A big hole had bben cut out the back and a tow bar placed through it! There where no numbers on her but she did not look to bad apart from the nasty tow bar at the back.
Looked like it was being used as a camper!

Cheers

hpenn

If they own it and payed good money for it, they are entitled to do as whatever they like with the bus. If they hadn't a love for the bus, then they wouldn't own it as 13MPG if ya lucky, you don't buy one for it's economical MPG!!!
An even bigger crime is the abuse of buses by film crews and production companies! with their big budgets and a don't give a FCUK attitude.
Is anybody planning a RM/RML 'naturally' go slow fuel protest?
I'd love to know as the press and publicity officer, I think we should do something, to make our point. We know these MP's and PM don't listen, but it would get publicity from the press no problemo..
JayDay.

"If they own it and payed good money for it, they are entitled to do as whatever they like with the bus"

"An even bigger crime is the abuse of buses by film crews and production companies! with their big budgets and a don't give a FCUK attitude."


The above statements appear to cancel each other out, so I'm confused as to where you stand on the subject.


Kevin

I think a more appropriate question to ask would be, "How considerately have the changes been made?"

I (and I'm fully expecting to be branded a heretic for this) intend at some point in the future to convert my bus into a motor home. However, I have put a lot of thought into how I can accomplish this without damaging the fabric of the bus in a material manner. Inevitably, I will end up punching some holes in the exterior panels, but the intention is to keep these to a minimum. Hopefully, if whoever owns it after me decides that they want to turn it back into a bus "proper", then it won't be much more than replacing a couple of panels and reinstalling the seats (which I fully intend to keep in a safe place).

If the French modification is just a hole in the back and some mounting holes to attach the towbar to the the B-Frame, then it shouldn't require a lot of effort to revert it to the point where externally it looks reasonably correct.

The problem with production companies is that they tend to write off vehicles by crashing them, to the point of real structural damage to the frames at which point the cost of repairs becomes prohibitive. On a fleet of several thousand, having a couple written off isn't too bad, but once you start getting down into the hundreds a lot more is required to justify such damage to items of historic importance.

Hi Brian,
Good to hear you're still about , have you moved your bus as I noticed she's not at her normal home ? If you do convert her don't throw anything away !
Mark

> Good to hear you're still about , have you moved your bus as I noticed she's not at her normal home ?

The MOT took longer than expected, but she's back again now. Unfortunately I'm on holiday for the weekend of the Peterborough bus rally, so can't make that, but if any other meetings are occuring in the Northamptonshire area let me know and I'll try to make it along.

> If you do convert her don't throw anything away !

Wouldn't dream of it, I'd keep everything safe. At some point someone is going to need spares, even of the parts put in at refurb.

Anyhow, nothings likely to change in the short term, with me in London and the bus in Peterborough.

was the fact that private owners do what they like, with a large consideration to keeping in harmony and preserving the bus and it's aiesthetic looks in regards to their budget.
Film producton companies buy a bus because it is iconic and enhances the 'credability' of the film with their budgets and the bus is a material object and are an expendable as an expense.
Just look at walkers crisps attitude towards the bus, aswel as the production company that wrecked the RM in 'Jumper'
A bus is a bus is a bus and at the end of the day it's a bus, no matter how iconic it is.
JayDay