This week’s work has been the manufacture of the right-angle brackets that reinforce the joint between the lower side frames and the body bearers. Ten were required, each with four mounting holes 1/4″ clear. These are attached to the side frames using recessed coach bolts then bolted through the body bearers and vertical reinforcement plates. These are now mostly fitted with just three on the offside remaining to do, hopefully first thing tomorrow morning.
New brackets to reinforce the joints between the body horizontal bearers and the lower side frame at the rear.
The hiatus in progress was due to a number of things including getting Alfred ready for an MOT and maintenance on the MW. That completed, I was able to fit the offside corner panel today. As with the nearside corner, this panel needed to be extended by about 1.5″. I did this by welding in a strip of aluminium recovered from the wheelarch panel left over from restoring the MW.
Work has been concentrated on paneling around the boot door opening and getting the rear corner panels to fit the repaired frame. This has required welding a couple of strips to the forward edge of the nearside panel to extend it by about an inch.
Restoration diary of a 70-year old AEC single-deck bus and the trials, tribulations and adventures of our 1966 Bristol bus.
