Typical, you wait for one set of Routemaster Fleet statistics and three come along at once.
How many Routemaster bus seats would it take to fill Wembley Stadium?
A strong contender has emerged for an addition to The Register Standards Soviet's list of officially approved weights and measures: the Routemaster Fleet. In a tweet yesterday, a secondhand printer cartridge company said: "There were a combined total of 184,064 seats within the Original Routemaster Fleet. That's enough seats …
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Thursday 18th January 2018 09:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
Deeply confused
After playing with the unit convertor I'm deeply confused by there being two different units for volume. Namely the Bulgarian airbag and the Bulgarian funbag. I'm guessing that "jub" the unit of weight is derived from one of these two but which? I'm leaning towards "Bulgarian funbag" but conceded I'm going to have to spend a lot of time researching this.
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Thursday 18th January 2018 10:03 GMT LeoP
Disappointed!
TRSS (The Register Standards Soviet) has gone lazy!
The only correct way to solve this, is to
1. define a Standard Routemaster Bus having e.g. 64.2 seats (or whatever the average turns out to be)
2. define a Standard Routemaster fleeet size somewhere in the 2800s
3. Multiply these to get the Standard Routemaster Fleeet Seat Count (SRFSC)
We then can compare 1 SRFSC to Wembley Stadium.
Paris, because she is such a well-defined standard
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Thursday 18th January 2018 15:11 GMT Francis Boyle
Not if it's also a Tardis
See Iris Wildthyme.
note: being a Tardis it can simultaneously be both spherical and bus-shaped.
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Thursday 18th January 2018 10:34 GMT jaywin
Transport for London disagrees...
For maintenance, LT used to have a "float" system, with extra busses that lived as parts in the garage and that could then be swapped around to make sure the full service allocation of busses were available. It meant that buses could be completely serviced in less than a day - when in reality it was a completely different chassis, engine, brakes and so on, with only the body (and it's licence) that came in. This may be where the discrepancy comes in - TfL saying how many buses they licensed for use, while the Routemaster Association are saying how many were actually constructed.
More info -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldenham_Works
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Thursday 18th January 2018 10:40 GMT Jimsands
Think the Routemaster Association might be closer. The final 500 London Routemasters were longer, having 72 seats, which adds 4000 seats. And TFL's total doesn't include at least 100 Routemasters sold to other companies (eg Northern General and British European Airways), which gives you roughly another 6000 seats. I'll get my coat!
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Thursday 18th January 2018 10:41 GMT Anonymous Coward
OK, we're looking for 8000 missing seats, think I can help.
1) Just over 500 London Routemasters were 72 not 64 seaters, that gets us around 4000 extra seats.
2) TFL didn't include around 100 Routemasters were sold to other companies like Northern General and BEA (for Heathrow Airport runs), that's another 6000, say.
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Thursday 18th January 2018 10:45 GMT Anonymous Coward
Pointing out the obvious
I'd be willing to bet Wembley Stadium can hold a shitload more seats than 180000 if you just dumped them in through the whole in the top rather than unbolting the existing seats and replacing them with Routemaster seats.
Quantifying volume in seats seems a bit hopeless so this is a non-starter for the Reg Standards.
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Thursday 18th January 2018 10:57 GMT katrinab
Re: Pointing out the obvious
Well the seating capacity, if you want to watch a load of overpaid drama queens fall over while attempting to kick a ball, is 90,000, but I think that is more to do with how quickly they can get people out of through fire exits than the actual amount of space for seats.
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Thursday 18th January 2018 22:23 GMT CentralCoasty
Re: What!?
----> "Is that because they were bolted down?"
WHAT!? What namby-pamby part of the country you from?
NOTHING stopped them from being nicked off the buses when I was a lad. Spent many a trip home from Stratford-upon-Avon squatting on the frame where there used to be a seat.....
I always wondered how they got the seats off the bus though.... big pockets?
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Thursday 18th January 2018 14:26 GMT Steve Davies 3
Great Value Article
And a darn sight cheaper than that cough-cough part work that is being advertised on TV at the moment. £1.99 for part 1 and the bits of the bonnet. I shudder to think how much the whole bus will cost. All I can say for sure that it is an order of magnitide cheaper than the plastic glue together kit I received one Christmas as a lad.
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Thursday 18th January 2018 22:10 GMT John Brown (no body)
Re: Great Value Article
"I shudder to think how much the whole bus will cost. "
If that's the Italian sounding "magazine" company I think you are referring to, it could easily end up costing £100s to get the complete model. You could probably buy a scrapped full size one for the same price :-)
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Monday 24th February 2020 20:47 GMT DiViDeD
Re: Great Value Article
Oh, but you miss the point of partworks. The price is worth it to those who will spend the next couple of years patiently collecting the bits, making miniature discarded Macca's bags and 1960s Playboy magazines to place on the seats and generally having a great time showing each other what they can get up to with their dremels.
And that's from someone who has built the James Bond DB5, Milennium Falcon, BTTF De Lorean, 1/3 scale R2-D2 and even the Solar System Orrery (which almost did for me, TBH)
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