Our events page has been updated with more information about our Morecambe Running Day on May 19th plus other events we plan to attend. You get access the events page directly from the home page. Below is a reminder of our visit to Skipton last [...]
We have to begin with an apology. We had intended to take our two oldest buses, 1931 Lion and 1936 Cheetah, to the event at the Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester, over the weekend of April 20-21. Unfortunately it has taken longer than expected to [...]
Apart from the ongoing restoration of National 382 our recent work has been concentrated on Leyland Cheetah 1568 and PD3 1775. The former has been 'rested' for the past few years but is now being worked on in the hope we can take it to [...]
Plenty of activity at present. Restoration work continues on Leyland National 382 and Leyland bodied PD2 1349. Very soon work will start on PD3 1775 to prepare it for an external repaint. Trident 18139 has been given a full MoT preparation and will shortly be [...]
Even in the depths of winter work continues at our depot. Leyland National 382 has featured here several times and continues to be our main project. However, work has recently restarted on 1950 lowbridge PD2 1349 which had much of its body structure renewed a [...]
Work continues on our Mark 1 Leyland National 382. Over the past few weeks the refurbished original engine has been refitted. Major components were overhauled before the fitting and it now has the radiator attached. An initial test of the engine showed it maintained good [...]
The restoration of our early National 382 continues with good progress recently with the power train. The engine from 382 was stripped down and found to be in good condition so that will be refitted. All major components have been professionally overhauled and refitted. Ditto [...]
Reminder that RVPT will be attending the Aire Valley Transport Group's running day in Skipton on Sunday, October 8th. In addition to a display there will be free bus services on several routes formally operated by Ribble and West Yorkshire. We plan to take two [...]
On Sunday September 24th RVPT with the Fishwick group and the British Commercial Vehicle Museum held a display adjacent to the Museum. From there are number of free services were provided to a variety of destinations, principally Chorley and Preston. There was a good turn [...]
We had a busy weekend supporting two events on both days. We took buses to the Great Harwood Transport Festival and Vintage by the Sea in Morecambe. The weather was superb for both events and certainly brought out the crowds. Lancaster Council estimated Morecambe had [...]