The first examples of the new front indicator ears were available at North Weald rally at the beginning of July and are selling fast. For the first batch, they are available to members at the special introductory price of £65.00 per pair (£75.00 to non-members). These will fit many different types of vehicles including RTs, RFs and GSs, as well as Routemasters.
We now have available the reflectors (i.e. the separator plates that should be positioned in the centre of the rubber ear) at £5.00 per pair.
Our mark 1 design of steel budget key is now available after numerous people have had problems with recent cast aluminium examples breaking. They are available exclusively from the Routemaster Association at £10.00 each.
The next batch of bulkhead windows is now available; we have maintained the same price at £125.00 each. This is now the fifth batch that we have had produced for the Association – and for the record, the first three batches were dearer at £135.00 per unit with the first being available in 1996. [Inflation, what inflation ??]
A few Gearboxes remain available at £350.00 each. These are second-hand and are “sold as seen”.
Usual stocks of the following are available direct from our Sales Officer Alan Gregory, including the following:
- Window rubber (types R1 £1.50 per metre + R2 £1.00 per metre).
- Drivers’ Cab Door edge rubber (R3) £10.00 per door length.
- Cab floor rubber (R4) £12.00 per length.
- Bulkhead windows. These are available and the members’ price has been maintained at the original price of £125.00 per unit.
- Indicator mounting brackets £35.00 per pair.
- Bonnet roundels £25.00 each.
- Bodywork screws (£10.00 per hundred) + inserts (£14.00 per hundred).
- Transfer sets (vinyls) for all interior / exterior lettering, gold fleet numbers + fleet names and registration numbers (please ask for prices depending on your requirements).
- New Maintenance Manuals (members’ special price) £43.00
- Handbook for the Routemaster £3.00
- Compendiums (all three volumes available at £10.00, £12.50 and £12.50 respectively)
- B-frame sandwich rubbers (pattern parts), at £40.00 each
- Our new book, Monarch of the Road, is still available. The Routemaster Association members’ special price of £15.00 (including postage & packing).
Treadmaster Flooring.
- The (RML refurbishment style) items that we obtained in 2006 are still available, and we have re-stocked the popular bottom black/yellow sharks tooth pattern stair nosing.
- Standard Multislat and 3mm thick mat can be order (and delivered directly to members) as required.
- The 3” gangway and platform flooring slats are now available again from the Association. We have ordered a large batch and have these available from stock. If you require any of these for your gangways or platforms, then please get in touch and let us know the quantity that you require.
- We have now sourced the white platform edge nosings; the cost for the set of the three pieces will be around £220.00 to £230.00 per set. If you require these parts, or would be interested in a set, please contact one of the Association Committee. If enough people are interested, then we will source a reasonable quantity – but we will need to know how many to order!!
