Left hand drive LT RT?

[Tetchytyke]

I was watching Horrible Histories with Baby Troll and there was a Rosa Parks song filmed at the Chiltern open air museum. The bus they used looks like an LT RF, except its left hand drive.

Does anyone know what the story is? Attached is a screenshot.

 

[CatfordCat]

I was watching Horrible Histories with Baby Troll and there was a Rosa Parks song filmed at the Chiltern open air museum. The bus they used looks like an LT RF, except its left hand drive.

Does anyone know what the story is? Attached is a screenshot.

It is almost certainly a modernised London Transport 'Green Line' RF which has been digitally messed about with - they have done it quite well...

 

[Busaholic]

There was a left-hand drive RTL (the Leyland version of the RT) but never, afaik, a left-hand drive RF. Actually, having said that, the only photo I have of me as a child with a bus in the background was taken at Eltham Well Hall bus station and, being printed the wrong way round, does indeed feature such a bus on the 228!

 

[RT4038]

There was a left-hand drive RTL (the Leyland version of the RT) but never, afaik, a left-hand drive RF. Actually, having said that, the only photo I have of me as a child with a bus in the background was taken at Eltham Well Hall bus station and, being printed the wrong way round, does indeed feature such a bus on the 228!

There was no left hand drive RTL. RTL3 had its staircase and rear platform changed round, but the driving cab remained in the right hand position

 

[Tetchytyke]

It is almost certainly a modernised London Transport 'Green Line' RF which has been digitally messed about with - they have done it quite well...

Yeah, that was my first thought but couldn't see the join, and I know the location where it was filmed (I was best man at a wedding there!) so I know they've done more than just reverse the image, everything else is the correct way round.

Modern technology eh!

ETA: I was also asking because that sort of attention to detail is normally way beyond the BBC...

 

[ECML180]

From looking at it quickly, no wording or signage is visible when we can see that it's a 'LHD'. I'd guess the blind and temporary stickers on the bus are simply printed 'backwards' and the video has been flipped left to right, relatively cheap and simple really!

 

[swifty]

ETA: I was also asking because that sort of attention to detail is normally way beyond the BBC...

It's not actually made by the BBC so it comes as standard

 

[swifty]

From looking at it quickly, no wording or signage is visible when we can see that it's a 'LHD'. I'd guess the blind and temporary stickers on the bus are simply printed 'backwards' and the video has been flipped left to right, relatively cheap and simple really!

Yeah from looking at it quickly it does look as though the shots would have been planned to be flipped in the edit so as to appear as being abroad, without having to worry about expensive digital trickery!

 

[richw]

Probably a flipped video, certain photography and videography equipment flips images automatically. Higher budget filming will correct it in editing.

 

[jammy36]

As others note it looks like the shot above is a simple film flip - in real-life the hooped metal arch is slightly to the left of the chapel, not the right as seen in the above screen shot. The other clue is the actress's jacket buttons the wrong way - presumably the writing was reversed post-production.

 

[Busaholic]

There was no left hand drive RTL. RTL3 had its staircase and rear platform changed round, but the driving cab remained in the right hand position

I'm an idiot. I did actually see this bus at the back of Gillingham Street garage. I didn't understand then why you'd go to all this trouble and not put the cab on the other side, if you were thinking you'd might sell a few to countries where they drive on the other side. Unsurprisingly, nobody was tempted, so even RTL3 remained unsold. Now there were some left hand drive AEC Regents in Lisbon, but I never saw them.