Screwed on the metal work on the entrance door rear pillar today.  In the last few minutes of work time I cut the long coach bolts that someone had driven through the side of the entrance step well.  A piece of plate had been riveted and coach-bolted to the side of the step well for no obvious reason as it was not actually attached to anything else.

Plate that does nothing:

Came back from Bristol with a bad cold on the 29th Dec which has prevented work taking place until now.  Last couple of days have focused on replacing the rot in the no.1 side rod/window pillar, a new piece of ash was cut and shaped and glued, screwed and pegged in the cut out.   This needs to be sanded to profile to match the rest of the side rod.  Other work has been drilling out old screw holes and filling with dowels in number 2 window pillar.  The plan at the moment is to repair and paint the frame as far back as the wheel arch then replace the lower section of side rods  below floor lever and the wheelarch timbers, working from the front towards the rear.  The entrance steps will need to come out too as some of the metalwork has been badly patched.

As we enter the new year I continue to marvel at how good this bus looked when I first saw it and how bad it actually is!