August 31 Update

Well I was hoping to get back onto regular updates at the end of the month and lo and behold my second child came along a few days earlier and delayed it!! Quite ironic as when the first baby came along it was on th very day we started the strip down on RT8 back in August 2006!
So as you can see we have started now fitting out the interior. The sides walls are going on in Gaboon Ply as they were originally and then the original cappings are being put back on to check the sizes and also allow for the window pans to be fitted. We also had all the seat frames in and checked they all aligned as they should and what a difference it made to the look, but alas at the end of the month they had been removed again. As you can see the very first of the ceiling panels are in and by the end of the month the remaining ones will all be in. So all in all a good deal of change and with the first of these panels going in she is starting to look less skeletal and more like a bus. I will endeavour next month to actually publish on time around September 30, until then for Cheers for now.

Only one seat frame has remained in which is a rather convenient store for some of the drawings being used.


Finally the 'toast rack' look is departing and a sense of a real bus is prevailing

The original coving panels are all now back in upstairs having been stripped and prepared. The first ceiling panel has gone in along with the original front internal dome and blind box.