Watched on bigger screen. Loads of interesting stuff.
Throughout ... the large number of Austin FX4 black cabs with Lucas 'pigs ear' indicators on the roof (indicators on front and rear wings were introduced during 1968).
Between 0min 24sec and 0min 39sec two Yanks. Firstly a Ford Mustang convertible with the top up in traffic, partly hidden by the Austin A60 Countryman (or is it an Oxford VI Traveller?). Then a Ford Fairlane (?) station wagon parked at the right-hand kerb.
At 1min 21sec a Peugeot 403, a Rover P6 with boot-mounted spare wheel and seriously overloaded roof rack, then a Bedford VA coach with rare Duple Viceroy bodywork.
At 4min 39sec the 2-tone blue Bedford CA van being driven with the sliding driver's door open (the good old pre health and safety days!).
At 7min 36sec the black cab at Piccadilly Circus is a rare Beardmore Paramount (assembled by Metro-Cammell at Adderley Park) as opposed to the much more familiar Austin FX4.
At 10min 40sec. Has the yellow Triumph Herald been involved in a collision and subsequently been abandoned in the shadow of Big Ben???
At 16min 45sec one of London Transport's XA type experimental and unreliable first generation rear-engined/one-man buses, a Park Royal bodied Leyland Atlantean, one of 50 purchased during 1965/66. All had been sold by 1973.
At 19min 0sec an AC Invacar single-seat 'Invalid Carriage'. Looks old enough to have a 150cc Villiers engine chugging away at the back.
Nice opportunity to compare the frontal styling of buses too. Park Royal bodied AEC Routemaster (271CLT) is RM1271 dating from 1962 and based at Dalston garage, on route 11 to Shepherds Bush Green. By comparison the pre-Routemaster era is highlighted by another AEC; a Weymann bodied Regent Mk.3 (NLE829) is RT3722 dating from 1953 and based at Peckham garage, on route 12 to Dulwich 'The Plough'
Many thanks to the vast minority for providing the link. Much enjoyment on an exceptionally cold evening! Feeling quite wistful and kinda missing my years working for London Transport/TfL