The last few days were spent repairing the missing section of the roof over the entrance door. The repair sections have been bonded and riveted and await fixing back to the cant rail. Before I can do this, I have to install the replacement “arch” fairing panel over the entrance steps, so I spent yesterday and today making that panel by shaping it around the remains of the original panel then wiring and rolling the edge bead.
New fairing for the entrance with the original, rotten, item behind.
The final piece of glass for the nearside turned out to have been cut incorrectly so I was very annoyed not to be able to complete the installation of the windows. This means I cannot carry on as planned, so in the meantime my attention has turned to repairing the roof over the entrance. The first two sections have been riveted in, the last piece should go in tomorrow then I will make the decorative arch fairing that goes over the door and under the roof cladding.
Restoration diary of a 70-year old AEC single-deck bus and the trials, tribulations and adventures of our 1966 Bristol bus.
