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…
‘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…
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…
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 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…
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,…
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…
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…
There are believed to be some 1280 old Routemaster buses still in existence. Some of them still are still in use in London on the number 15 Heritage route and many of them around the United Kingdom are used for weddings, parties and functions. There are however a number of them that are used rather…
It was in 2010, some 2 years after winning the London mayoral election, Boris Johnson unveiled the new design for the Routemaster bus. The commission for the design was awarded to Thomas Heatherwick and the bus was to be manufactured in Antrim, Northern Ireland by Wrightbus. The design owed much to its predecessor with the…
