It looks as if they’ve already called out the breakdown service as there’s a cut down bus recovery vehicle bogged down behind it!
How about doing the simple thing. It’s the Dartford tunnel not the Simplon. For all the passengers that would have carried at any one time they could have had a minibus for the passengers and a trailer for the bikes. You would have got all 5 vehicles for the price of one of these.
That was my point. I can only assume that the bus broke down before the road got flooded otherwise the recovery driver has a lot to answer for.
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I can (sort of ) imagine you at the helm
[edit - not to Cheltenham, but you get my drift /edit]
Partly inspired by a bit of back and forth with @grumpy_old_man, a sidenote on coaches (not just National Express) and lorries on motorways back then.
Why were coaches allowed to do 70+ in the outside lane on 3-lane motorways while transporting real actual live people (who’d shelled out for the trip) and us lot carting inert loads weren’t? It seemed odd then (1980s) to me.
I can count 22 cycle racks, that’s 22 passengers max. They’d weigh no more than 1.5 tonnes.
It was probably about stopping distances. A Midland Red BMMO travelling at 80mph could still ease up a bit smartish if the Mk 9 Jag pulled out from the middle lane to overtake something, but a drum-braked 32-tonner at 70mph might not be so agile. Just a guess.
Teaching the errant Jaguar driver a valuable lesson.
Yes but didn’t a BMMO C6 have disc brakes which was practically unique for heavy vehicles.
I didn’t know that. But it further strengthens my case! 
Summer time in Denholme.
Oh i’ve been to Cheltenham bus station with one of those more than a few times, Friday night services, Yorkshire to West Country, changeover at Cheltenham.
One thing I recall, the Leyland always managed to overheat coming back up the M5 towards Birminghan, I never could understand why.
Talking of the vowel challenged.
August bank holiday that’s as good as it gets .Not much better in Shelf 
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Bit of an eye-opener, this one from India!
Precision my arse! They have a casual attitude quality and safety.
The welding was very ordinary, how can you expect decent welds when the welder doesn’t have even a half decent decent helmet?
No derusting or painting of the structural section, out of sight, out of mind.
Fancy working in heavy industry wearing frock like garments and open footwear!
There is a YouTube channel about Pakistani truck repairing, there is amazing ingenuity in those parts of the world, but if a truck was repaired to those standards in my country, it would be grounded at its first inspection.
yes that’s what I thought but I wanted to remind the precious hide-bound safety conscious world that whatever heavy duty rules we choose to impose on tiny countries like ours in the name of planet-saving, there are millions of people doing the opposite in vast countries around the globe. We are ■■■■■■■ in the wind!!
EDIT to add: OMG! We are controlled by American corporation culture that doesn’t even allow us to say that we are micturating into the ■■■■■■■ zephyrs FFS!
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There’s a word that deserves more usage.
I’m not a pedantic or over the top disciple of workplace health and safety, but not wearing loose fitting clothes around rotating and reciprocating tools, sturdy foot wear in any workplace involved in movement, welding or cutting of steel and proper masks and shields around welding is simple common sense.
Your neck of, Moaster/RR?
