I worked with some of those drivers sitting in the canteen, I was based at Slatyford depot.

I’ve never seen anything more like my dad then Animal Anderson.

Great that you could recover this video from the original wax cylinders.

A corporate training video with a sense of humour. I like the homage to Blakey.

Christ, I wish we had driver canteens and facilities now like they have in the video.

Great to see and hear some of the Tyne & Wear Metropolitans in action, especially at 9.22 when one pulls away from the bus station. Bus heaven!

As a student in the late 1970's I remember many of the bus drivers being particularly rough on the throttle and brakes, throwing the passengers up and down the bus in Bob Newhart style (for anyone who remembers his sketches)! As for the semi-automatics....well I doubt those lasted long before repair - as some drivers literally slammed the lever between gears resulting in the bus almost jumping. Strange, as the United coach drivers of the time knew how to operate them so smoothly!

Good old days, very different to now

TBH I wish the drivers were like Animal Anderson instead of what they're now!!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="725">12:05</a> we are the people who pay your wages. Yet she wants to use her free bus pass. The amount of times av heard this

Wish todays bus drivers were more like those in the film, bloody hilarious.

Auf Wiedersehen Pet meets On The Buses

Hi, long shot but do you happen to have an original copy of the video? I'm trying to find this in higher quality if at all possible!

smoking in the workplace, how times have changed

Great!

In this video, the driver was the bad guy, when I was a driver, many passengers were the bad guys. Using large denominations without being the least bit apologetic, taking it out on you when the last service didn't turn up (admittedly this happened to me only once) passengers being aggressive. These passengers in this feature were model passengers who I would treat like royalty!!

45p for a bus fare!!!!

this is the north east basically all the time

i really really want a model of that bus soooo much

Classic.....

When was this video made?

He didn't do a lot wrong in fairness

Pretty old version vidro, there is no choose of list between p144 and p1080. How wach this dome good, hm?!!... 🤔😒

Lots of these passengers are Karens lol

the real name of this comedian (portraying a Tyne & Wear driver as being like a total wanker) was John Anderson Rawlinson and, until 1969, he was a professional footballer, playing for Bury, Barrow (twice, first from 1965-66 and again in 1968-69) and Runcorn. After he swapped the pitch for the stage (not to mention television), he adopted the moniker of Spike Rawlinson, then just Spike Rawlings. He died in hospital thirteen years ago, while awaiting a liver transplant. As for playing the bus driver from hell in this video (which has a typically cheesy soundtrack); well, I've come across wankers like Animal Anderson behind the wheel...people who you'd just love to twat. And it's nearly always the men, because, let's face it, women drivers are better behaved. I remember when I was twenty, I'd got on the 86 to town I think and I noticed that, at the wheel of this particular East Lancs-bodied Atlantean was a young woman of about my age. Well, I said something about the first time I'd seen a woman at the wheel of a bus and she said something along the lines of 'us being better than the men'. And that is true. I've never yelled at a woman bus driver for being a wanker or bell-end. The only time I did have a go at a woman driver was some girl who was on the 410 because she nearly fucking drove off without me...despite me yelling to wait a minute.

Just give up the cigarettes👍

Howay, my kinda driver, like. But soft as shite tho but.