October update

Well the latest update has not shown as much visual progress had I had hoped but that is purely down to us discussing how we were going to tackle the top deck and changing how we are doing it. We have a lot more detailed drawing for upstairs and of course we now have a lower deck that we know is correct to build up from. As such we have just completed cutting, preserving, shaping and restoring all the framework required to get the project above the upstairs windows and they will start going on at the end of this week. In the meantime as can be seen, the staircase was completed as was the conductors area and staircase bulkhead. The between decks aluminium has gone in as have the upper deck floorboards, which have now been sanded, treated and varnished. As can be seen RT8 has a friend visiting in the shape of RT113, the only other 2RT2 that is fully preserved and roadworthy. Interestingly the two buses entered service on the same day, at the same garage in 1940. Do pop by next month when hopefully a large step forward will have been taken and will be posted up here the first week in December.