LONDON TRANSPORT RT3183 Restoration

RT3183 shares many of the problems seen in our other RT restoration videos but it should come as no great surprise when you consider these buses are over 60 years old! In 1980 this RT was heavily modified and spent approximately 10 years in use as 'the Harlow Playbus' and during this time repairs were carried out to rebuild the platform riser and platform supports, although we found some of these repairs to be far from perfect there can be no doubt that without this complicated and expensive work this RT would have ended up in a scrap yard many years ago. After we removed the lower rear paneling and remains of the timber it became clear that the whole lower rear structure had no physical connection to the new platform supports and was simply hanging from the upper deck, this would also account for the springy feel of the platform floor. The repairs follow original drawing plans and the parts are reproduced from original patterns.