Plenty going on at our depot over the past couple of months despite the lack of events to attend. Royal Tiger saloon 377 continues to make good progress with much of the interior now complete. The cab area is still being worked on and there [...]
In addition to 1467 work has continues on Royal Tiger 377 and lowbridge PD2 1349. 377's back end had to be totally rebuilt and the final stage of the work has been completed with the fitting of the emergency door handle. Most windows are now [...]
More progress with our Burlingham bodied PD2 1467. We now have an auto electrician completing all the wiring in the cab and one of our volunteers who is a bus engineer has had the engine running in situ for the first time. The fuel pipe [...]
Like most groups who usually operate vintage bus events including running free services we have had to cancel our plans this year. While it isn't practical to plan an event where we carry passengers we have decided it would be a good idea to take [...]
More progress with Royal Tiger 377. All lino has now been laid apart from the area near the entrance. Work is now underway to fit the floor strips. Most of the nearside windows are in place and the offside ones will be fitted in the [...]
Work has resumed on Royal Tiger 377 with lino being laid in the rear half of the saloon. Another piece has been cut and dry fitted to the front section; it will be 'glued in' next week. The rear emergency door mechanism has been away [...]
RVPT's depot has been closed down apart from security checks for several weeks but work has now resumed in a carefully controlled low key manner which complies with guidelines. Limited work has resumed on Royal Tiger 377 and PD2 1349 and there has been a [...]
The bleak reality Another look back at RVPT's earlier years. Now that we have two modern, well equipped buildings it's hard to recall the 1980s when one section of what was then RVPG had to keep its buses outdoors on the windswept car [...]