(digital:works documentary, 2016)

Fascinating documentary viewable on YouTube. Produced with financial support from Unite the Union and the Heritage Lottery Fund, this is an oral history of London bus workers put together with input from two London primary schools. Many LT buses appear:
The show begins with footage of LT's Stockwell garage, and AEC Routemaster RM403 (WLT403):

AEC RT1763 (KYY601):

Lots of Routemasters, and an anonymous cab:

RM1163 (163CLT):

An unidentifiable RT, LYRxxx:

RT917 (JXN295) on route 146:

Interior:

RTL738 (KXW88) passes London Zoo on route 74:

RM2195 and RM1989, and in the same sequence, a Strachan-bodied Red Arrow MBA-class AEC Merlin:

Massed RTs and STLs:

A trolleybus at speed:

RT1486 (KGK745), a rare Cravens-bodied example:

The first woman to drive a London Transport bus, Jill Viner, in front of DMS1626 (THM626M), a MCW-bodied Daimler Fleetline new in 1974:

STL815 (CJJ77) heels over. This 1935-built Regent was new with a non-roofbox body, which was destroyed in an air raid in 1944. The replacement body had a roofbox, and STL815 later became the skid pan bus at Chiswick works, as you can see, although in this view the buildings are still under construction:

An aerial view of London Transport's Chiswick works, with RTs, RMs,an RF and an MBA:

RTL776 (KYY746) on route 2A, while RT2309 (KGU338) takes on passengers on route 13 and RT2126 (KGK935) draws up on route 74:

Unidentified (LLUxxx) on route 74, and RTL950 (LLU940) on route 2A:

RT4657 (NXP910):

Two Red Arrow AEC Merlins, Strachan-bodied XMS9 alongside a later Metro-Cammell example, surrounded by Routemasters at Victoria Bus Station. As the camera pulls back we also see two RTs and another XMS:

An RTW on the Chiswick skidpan, the registration is unclear, but I believe it's RTW42 (KGK542):

A Routemaster on 73, RM1225 (225CLT):

More of Victoria Bus Station, this time with RTs:

RT3286 (LYR505) at night on route 188:

These RTs are anonymous:


RT2295 (KGU324) on route 247; RT948 (KGK919) on route 231; RT2681 (LYR665) on route 119; RT4721 (OLD507) on route 72:


A woman boards Stevenage-based Country Area RT4787 (OLD824), one of the last built:

An RML from the NMLxxxE batch on route 74B, and an RM from the xxxDYE batch newly returned to garage from route 11:

RT4787 again, going through the wash, also RM1726 (726DYE)

RM under overhaul, and bonnet views of RML2588 ( JJD588D ) and RT4825 (OLD589), numerically the last RT built, both later preserved:

RT2001 (LUC227) on route 119; RT3328 (LYR547) on route 145; RT2665 (LYR649) on route 191:

RT2776 (LYR827) on route 77C: RT2316 (KGU345) leaving the garage on route 242A; RT2664 (LYR648) on route 273:

RT2683 (LYR667) on route 77; RML2303 (CUV303C) on night route N92; RM557 on route 11:

RM505 (WLT505) on route 17; RM527 (WLT527) on route 27; RM555 (WLT555) on route 53:

RM890 (WLT890) on route 37; RM795 (WLT795) on route 253; RM811 (WLT811) on route 256:

RML2609 on route 74B; RM1201 on route 113:

D2634 (THX634S), a shiny and new-looking DMS-class Leyland B20 Fleetline on route 104:

Blurred footage follows of a number of DMS-class Fleetlines in service:


A blurred Country Area RT:

Another Country Area RT follows an RF operating route 390; another RF arrives to take on passengers on route 384, and RT4161 (LYF220) arrives at the same stop on 384A :

RTL297 (KGU255):

A brief look at privatisation includes this view of MCW Metrobus M847 (OJD847Y):

Lastly there's a view of preserved London Transport service vehicle 738J (AGX520). This was new in 1933 to London General as STL169. The original bus body was wrecked in 1944 by enemy action, and a new body fitted, but it was converted to a breakdown tender in 1950. The pale blue vehicle behind appears to be an RT, but I've not identified it yet: