Sunday 21 March 2010

Great progress on upper deck

The basic re-assembly of the timber and steel stress panels on the upper deck of RTW335 has made great progress this week as seen in the accompanying photograph. The next stages for the upper deck would be refitting mouldings and window cappings - but it is more likely that we will now start stripping the lower deck to get it to the same stage before the detailed finishing work commences.

Because RTW335 was devoid of much original interior detail when it arrived at the Busworks, we really need another RTW to refer to. Sister vehicle RTW467 is earmarked to make the journey north to Blackpool during the Spring allowing us to extensively photograph the bus and apply this to the restoration of RTW335.