Summer Routemaster Magazine

The latest Routemaster Magazine, is number 122 the Summer 2020 issue, has now been sent out to all current members.

Don’t forget that the digital copy is available to all Routemaster Association members in the member’s area of the website: just click on the online magazine button at the top of the page and then click on the latest magazine, Summer 2020 (issue no. 122).

As well as the usual Routemaster Roundup, this magazine includes the following:-
- Association News, with news of events for 2020 and engine mounts from London Bus Museum.
- Changes to Membership subscriptions and the introduction of Direct Debit.
- News from the FBHVC.
- DVLA during the Covid 19 crisis.
- RCL enter service 55 years ago on 2nd June 1965.
- The News in Brief from around the world, with details of notable Routemaster news and operations from the last few months, including news from overseas.
- Routemasters Abroad: Double Deck Tours.
- RMA52 – NMY637E has a new owner.
- RM1’s engine is being rebuilt at London Transport Museum’s Acton Depot.
- Re-Birth of RM1977 – part one.
- Meet the Committee – Andrew Morgan.
- 50 Years ago this quarter – April to June 1970.
- Looking back to Western Greyhound.
- AEC Engines and their nemesis, their cooling system (part 3).
- Brake Drums – size standards and correct brake shoe rollers.
- RML Vehicles undergoing refurbishment at South Yorkshire Transport Rotherham in 1993.
- Reverse Refurbishment of RM1174.
- Poor Maintenance – brakes.
- Post AGM visit to Acton Depot of the London Transport Museum’s.
- And finally, the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting.

The next Association Magazine will be available in August 2020, so please send in your articles, photographs or other items for inclusion as soon as possible to our Magazine Editor by clicking here or sending it directly to editor@routemaster.org.uk

Remember, if you can help with any Routemaster news, articles, features and photographs, please let us know.

Some back numbers of the Routemaster Magazine are available from the shop page on this website – click here for details.

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