Wrightbus have built a mainly plywood mockup at their factory in
Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to test the design of the new "Son of
Routemaster":

http://preview.tinyurl.com/34kgwg3
or:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/h...00/9002737.stm

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:54:15 +0100
Bruce wrote:
Wrightbus have built a mainly plywood mockup at their factory in

Plywood? Are you sure its a mockup and not a pre-production model?

B2003

On 16/09/10 09:59, d wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:54:15 +0100
wrote:
Wrightbus have built a mainly plywood mockup at their factory in

Plywood? Are you sure its a mockup and not a pre-production model?

B2003



Just a mockup, the prototypes aren't due until next year. See the
accompanying article he

http://tinyurl.com/2vt4ezs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/mindthega...a_look_at.html

"This mock-up is fully to scale. It's made of plastic, steel and wood
but it lets the designers work out problems."

-roy

On Sep 16, 10:57*am, Roy Badami wrote:

On 16/09/10 09:59, wrote:

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:54:15 +0100
*wrote:

Wrightbus have built a mainly plywood mockup at their factory in

Plywood? Are you sure its a mockup and not a pre-production model?

Just a mockup, the prototypes aren't due until next year. *See the
accompanying article he

http://tinyurl.com/2vt4ezs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/mindthega...nboard_for_a_l...

"This mock-up is fully to scale. It's made of plastic, steel and wood
but it lets the designers work out problems."

To do that, surely they need the gaggle of confused punters at the bus
stop, wondering which door they're supposed to use... or the TfL
accountant, head in hands, trying to work out which budget to purloin
the cash from in order to pay for the conductors... or the stressed
police commander, struggling to rota enough PCSOs to staff the rear
platforms...

Bruce gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

Wrightbus have built a mainly plywood mockup at their factory in
Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to test the design of the new "Son of
Routemaster":

That's some very metallic looking plywood.

On 16/09/10 09:54, Bruce wrote:
Wrightbus have built a mainly plywood mockup at their factory in
Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to test the design of the new "Son of
Routemaster":

http://preview.tinyurl.com/34kgwg3
or:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/h...00/9002737.stm

Just spotted this:

"The final design of the New Bus for London, based on the much-loved
Routemaster was unveiled today by Mayor of London, Boris Johnson and
London's Transport Commissioner, Peter Hendy."

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/proj...mes/15493.aspx

So, out with the BendyBus and in with the HendyBus? ;-)

-roy

On Sep 16, 10:51*am, Roy Badami wrote:

On 16/09/10 09:54, Bruce wrote:

Wrightbus have built a mainly plywood mockup at their factory in
Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to test the design of the new "Son of
Routemaster":

http://preview.tinyurl.com/34kgwg3
or:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/h...00/9002737.stm

Just spotted this:

"The final design of the New Bus for London, based on the much-loved
Routemaster was unveiled today by Mayor of London, Boris Johnson and
London's Transport Commissioner, Peter Hendy."

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/proj...mes/15493.aspx

So, out with the BendyBus and in with the HendyBus? ;-)

Hendy was rather more associated with the bringing in of the bendy bus
- some called them 'Hendy bendys' etc. (Worth bearing in mind Hendy
came from a bus background.)

It remains hard to see how this expensive project might proceed given
the lack of money and coming cuts, though now Boris had made up his
mind to try and stick around for another term I guess he might feel
the need to commit to it more firmly. If existing bus services get cut
to pay for this, well...

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:02:23 -0700 (PDT)
Mizter T wrote:
It remains hard to see how this expensive project might proceed given
the lack of money and coming cuts, though now Boris had made up his
mind to try and stick around for another term I guess he might feel
the need to commit to it more firmly. If existing bus services get cut
to pay for this, well...

Though Boris has never knowlingly admitted to being wrong, perhaps the
cuts might make him reevaluate the logic of leaving a couple of million
quids worth of bendy bus lying around idle and spending money on resurrecting
a bus that wasn't actually as much loved as a lot of people seem to think.

They were cold in the winter and not very comfortable.

B2003

On Sep 16, 11:08*am, wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:02:23 -0700 (PDT)

Mizter T wrote:
It remains hard to see how this expensive project might proceed given
the lack of money and coming cuts, though now Boris had made up his
mind to try and stick around for another term I guess he might feel
the need to commit to it more firmly. If existing bus services get cut
to pay for this, well...

Though Boris has never knowlingly admitted to being wrong, perhaps the
cuts might make him reevaluate the logic of leaving a couple of million
quids worth of bendy bus lying around idle and spending money on resurrecting
a bus that wasn't actually as much loved as a lot of people seem to think..

They were cold in the winter and not very comfortable.

Putting aside questions of the comfort and loveability of the old
Routemasters to one side for a moment...

I suppose that if one was feeling (exceptionally) generous to Boris,
one could perhaps argue that the whole 'new Routemaster' idea was born
of a slightly different era, i.e. before the financial meltdown really
began in earnest. Though like much of Boris's manifesto it also seemed
to be born of vague ideas scribbled on wine stained napkins conceived
during blahdy good lunches what ho.

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 04:05:33 -0700 (PDT)
Mizter T wrote:
began in earnest. Though like much of Boris's manifesto it also seemed
to be born of vague ideas scribbled on wine stained napkins conceived
during blahdy good lunches what ho.

Wouldn't surprise me. I never understood why Boris seemed to think that
anyone outside a few militant foaming at the mouth cyclists was actually
bothered about bendy buses in the first place. Or buses in general. So long
as there are enough of the things and they work , who cares? If anything
I suspect most bus users much prefered just hopping onto a nice spacious
bendy bus rather than squeezing through the front door of a double decker
and up some stairs that no sane granny would ever want to climb.

B2003