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Worked in Thornliebank. Great memories ❤

Clydeside would have done better if they had got rid of Watson a lot sooner.

And in the end... McGill's swept it all up

McGills have now taken over a lot of bus companys

Clydeside had a funny driver called Big Norrie Macled

‘Mon get aff

Am sure this guy ended up working for East midlands

That's Thatcherism everyone at each other's throats.... there is no society.

Who were the narrators? I recognise the second gent, but can't place him...

باصات االيلند البريطانيه ةالرود ماستر احسن من الفولفو السويديه لذلك ارجعو صناعته

ارجعو باصات لايلند اابريطانيه وشركته الي ااعمل

George tried to sue me for calling one of my routenasters Rodney, it's a bus George it's not a living breathing entity lmao

George Watson and Jim Lee got things so wrong, sandy brydon was put of his depth the company was doomed to failure.

I worked for Clydeside Paisley depot 1972 - 1982, memories indeed

I worked for Clydeside Paisley depot 1972 - 1982, memories indeed

I worked for Clydeside Paisley depot 1972 - 1982, memories indeed

I worked for Clydeside Paisley depot 1972 - 1982, memories indeed

I worked for Clydeside Paisley depot 1972 - 1982, memories indeed

I worked for Clydeside Paisley depot 1972 - 1982, memories indeed

Poor old Sandy. He looks about as comfortable as a lame turkey, sitting on a pile of stuffing with a Xmas carol LP playing.

English narrator sounds like Mark Goodier.

The opening song is called Newsfront (A) by Andy Clarke. It's a piece of library music. Enjoy!

he does report with 4 buses standing idle behind him when they would have been making money if they were in service

We have a plan...we're gonna let first bus come in and buy out every company including ours...so you still have a job lol

Bastard arsehole McGills. When McGills took over from Arsiva in 2012 the Easdales were also in a consortium to take over Rangers FC and the buses took a back seat until that was over. Not to mention how unscrupulous they were, they also ran the taxis in Greenock and would take the buses off the road at 7pm so folk would have to use their taxis at further unnecessary expense. I heard there was a meeting arranged in Barrhead between residents and McGills (the buses were really bad in Barrhead at that point) and the representative showed up late and basically said if you don’t like the buses were just going to take them off the roads. That’s what you call customer service!!!

😂😂😂 1:02 Talk about saying how things are as they are. Wouldn’t be allowed now perhaps. Love the uncertainty of the music and the narration of the beginning I’m not sure it’s deliberate though. At least this company seemed to want to fight to keep passengers on unlike now.

If the other bus gets the passengers... then they get the money... then they get the power... then they get the women.

Oh Mary. Fronting reporting Scotland. Preferred viva Lumsden who Mary could.nt stand.alan Douglas reporting.

worked at clydeside Greenock depot as a driver for many years. memories 😊

Deregulation meant that operators had to think of ingenious methods to rapidly load buses and compete. OMO had taken over by the late - 70's and by the 80's crewed operation had all but gone. This was a gimmick, a return to old money values, pity the practicality of maintaining elderly, life - expired vehicles wasn't considered at that time. London Transport had the means to keep these on the road......up here didn't and the flirtation with the RM was short - lived..........basically re - painted ex London scrap......every engineer's nightmare!

Arriva were inept. They couldn't run a menage. Clydeside were ahead of their time, they tried but had to compete with the might of the PTE who encroached on their territory. Where Clydeside were potentially winning was that they had the staff, vehicles and resources to do that which the PTE could not....like express work, hires and extending outwith the restricted confines of the Greater Glasgow area. Clydeside had good management and vision, alas they were in a position of competing within an environment which was not just competitive but cut - throat. Difficult catchment area to work and survive in............pity now that we only have First and certain others who provide a totally shite service.

Rather unfortunate shot at 3:10 where the Clydeside bus is so busy chasing the Strathclyde bus that it almost goes straight past a passenger at the stop!

The problem lay with the the Regional Council......not the operators......the operators bore the brunt of the public's vitriol because they had little or no understanding of how the whole system of tendered/contract operations worked. Interesting how Cllr. Mullin could stand there and make a point for his constituents, give that the very same people were wholly responsible for the whole debacle in the first place. Buses do not run on 'fresh - air'. To this day, council tenders are a joke...........

The vehicles that many of these operations had were cascaded, they were acquired after having hard lives elsewhere or inherited as part of the whole deregulation scenario. Any engineer working under these circumstances had their work cut out to ensure the fleet operated and many did by keeping these fleets alive. Strangely, the reliability of what some people may feel was 'scrap' then, is far better than some of the shite that First attempt to keep on the road now. I have no love of First Group, the shambles that they run in Glasgow is a fucking disgrace relative to what previously existed.

By the way, First couldn't run a fucking raffle.........call it sour grapes.....but I got canned by them........as for the Commonwealth Games..........imagine letting First anywhere near that......totally incompetent.

Clydeside was never in the black. Neither were any of the 'offshoot' companies, like Kelvin and Lowland. Never worked out why the Bus Group thought Glasgow was rich pickings. Even with the boundary changes, Clydeside was on a hiding to hell, Western couldn't make Glasgow workings effective so Christ knows how Clydeside could. To be honest, the fleet that Clydeside had was reasonably good, and by today's standards would compete. However, deregulation was a cut - throat time and the PTE had that area sown - up...........now First have it and Arriva long moved out of the game.

It was pandemonium in 1988. Capitalism works. It is far better now than then

If only Arriva had the stones to fight back like Clydeside did at their peak, things in Paisley would have been so much different......

Lochaber no more, Sutherland no more, Lewis no more, Skye no more...

Privatisation pays eh? Clydeside no more, Western no more, Eastern no more, Fife no more, Northern no more, Strathtay no more, Kelvin no more, Highland no more, Midland no more, Lowland no more,. Stagecoach and First, private monopolies. Bastards!!!!

What year is this from?

very good memories of those days !!

I miss the big orange buses in Glasgow.

@BiggerThanJesus09 lol.i know what you mean,i seen a manager in my depot getting sacked one day for making the old cleaning ladies paint the wheels on the old busses!! tighter than 2 coats of paint.also we still run old E-reg Volvo olympians...still great to drive but some still have ash-trays in the seat backs!!

@BiggerThanJesus09 So sorry.was more interested in the fact that it was my dad 20 years ago, BTW im a bus mechanic too

i like the clydeside seddon in your video the seddon is my favourite bus and i also like the osj batch of leopards i know osj605r was an ex paisley bus

6.38 is my dad standing at rear door pretending to work!

I think that's KSD95w at 0:53, with the overall ad for Food Giant!

I love it! A maintenance shot of an Ailsa at 06:15, and surprise, suprise, it has its back wheels off! The bus shown is KSD94W, I have many memories of riding on this vehicle in Leeds.