A London Bus Journey
A film produced in 1950 by the ‘Colonial Film Unit’. The language appears quaint and…
A London Bus Journey
A film produced in 1950 by the ‘Colonial Film Unit’. The language appears quaint and outdated by today’s standards and speaks to a time when London was the biggest city in the world, a world long past. After the end of the second world war, Britain was in need of workers to rebuild the war…
Wrightbus
In December 2009, ‘Transport for London’ (TfL) announced that Wrightbus had been chosen to design and build the ‘New Bus for London’. Wrightbus based in Ballymena was originally called ‘Robert Wright & Son Coachbuilders’ before eventually morphing into Wrightbus. Established in 1946, the company had a long history of working with lorries and buses and…
Mariposa Supplements
Routemaster Buses is happy to announce its partnership with Mariposa Supplements. Folic acid is a type of B vitamin. It is important for proper brain function and the production of red blood cells. It is commonly used as a supplement during pregnancy to help prevent birth defects in the baby’s brain and spine. It can…
Classic Television with ‘On The Buses’
‘On The Buses’ was a British television sitcom that originally ran between 1969 and 1973 on the ITV network. The Olive character played by Anna Karen originally appeared in the television series ‘The Rag Trade’ that ran on the BBC between 1961 and 1963. She is thought to be the first ever British television character…
AI Generated Images of Routemaster Buses
The modern age allows us to see what Artifical Intelligence makes of the search term ‘Routemaster Buses’ with some surprising results. The following image was returned when the search term ‘Red London Bus’ was used, which suggests that the AI models were shown Routemaster buses as an example. The following image was returned when the…
Harry Potter and the ‘Knight Bus’
It’s a common misconception that the bus featured in the 2004 film ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ is a Routemaster bus, it is understandable though as the the Routemaster’s design owed much to its predecessors. The bus used in the film is in actual fact a RT-class AEC Regent III bus, or to…
The Classic British Red Letter Box
The story of the post box in Britain owes much thanks to Rowland Hill who introduced many innovations and reforms to the British postal delivery service. Before Hill’s reforms of 1840, the postal system was expensive and complicated with postage charged by distance. Collection of post was by way of a man walking the streets…
The Red Telephone Box… a British Icon
When people think about London, many images permeate their minds. Images of the British bulldog, Red buses, telephone boxes and post office boxes that are as iconic as yellow new York taxis, the Eiffel Tower or the Taj Mahal. Another iconic structure famous around the world is Battersea power station and along with Liverpool Cathedral,…
London Bus Routes
You used to be able to catch an old style Routemaster on the number 15 Heritage Route and you can catch the new style Routemaster buses on the following routes: The number 03 – Crystal Palace to Conduit StreetThe number 08 – Oxford Circus to Bow ChurchThe number 09 – Hammersmith to AldwychThe number 10…
Cliff Richard In ‘Summer Holiday’
Think of the film ‘Summer Holiday’ starring Cliff Richard and you hear that song and you think of holidaying in sunny foreign climbs in a Route master bus…wrong! In actual fact the bus used in the film ‘Summer Holiday’ was an AEC Regent III RT double-decker bus. But such is the popularity of the Routemaster…
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