Slightly off-topic, but no doubt some film buffs out there can answer this question from a friend in Finland:


I just received a DVD "London's Pride" that has five LT films. The ones I wanted, and got, were "Moving London" and "London on the Move". I've had them both as (illegal!) Betamax tape copies long time ago and was happy to locate a DVD release that had them both.

What bothers me is that I distinctly recall seeing a few scenes of LT that I thought had to be on either of these films but they were not. The scenes I'm missing are:

- a passenger seat cushions cleaning machine (mechanical brushes)
- a scene where an experienced conductor demonstrated how to tear a ticket from ticket holder
- a shot where a member of the staff glances himself in full uniform at a full size mirror with notes printed to the mirror pointing to the things one should check
- at the end of the film there was a scene of special buses going to Epsom Downs.

None of these scenes were on any of the five films on this DVD.

Have you any idea what might have been this film? I do think it was B/W, all the films on this DVD are in colour.

My bus number (if any): RML2532

Roy Chris Stanley posted links to British Pathe films sometime back, and that is where I think you will find your conductor scenes.
Only mechanical seat cleaning I have seen was at Aldenham, but never seen that on any version of the films about bus overhaul there, although there were some weird experiments carried out in garages like a fine water jet to collect litter together, maybe brushes were in short supply!!.

Have a look here http://www.britishpathe.com/search.php

My bus number (if any): RTL 960 RMC 1458 RM 1585 and several RTs