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1967 AEC Routemaster RML – Professionally Converted Fish & Chip Restaurant & Hospitality BusinessAn exceptionally rare opportunity to acquire a genuine 1967 AEC Routemaster RML that has been transformed into one of Britain’s most distinctive hospitality and mobile catering businesses. Originally built as one of London’s iconic Routemaster buses, this historic vehicle underwent an extensive 18-month conversion into a fully equipped fish & chip restaurant, combining heritage engineering with commercial practicality. The result is a truly unique vehicle that has become a popular attraction at weddings, festivals, private functions, corporate events and visitor attractions. Unlike many catering vehicles, this Routemaster offers a complete customer experience. The lower deck houses a professional commercial kitchen centred around a Preston & Thomas three-pan frying range, while the beautifully presented upper deck provides seating for approximately 28 diners, with potential to increase capacity to around 36. Highlights• Genuine 1967 AEC Routemaster RML• Historic Vehicle Status (Tax & MOT Exempt)• Professionally converted over approximately 18 months• Preston & Thomas commercial three-pan frying range• Fully equipped commercial catering kitchen• 28-seat upper deck restaurant• 8kW Cummins Onan silent generator• Mains electrical hookup• Original Routemaster features retained throughout• Website, branding and social media available if requiredThe bus has recently benefited from the professional resolution of the previously advertised gear selection issue and is ready for demonstration by appointment. This is not simply a vehicle; it is an established hospitality attraction with enormous potential for continued operation as a premium mobile catering business, corporate hospitality venue, brewery partnership, visitor attraction, film & television prop, promotional vehicle or private event business. To help prospective purchasers fully appreciate the vehicle, we are pleased to provide a digital guided tour presented by my late husband, Alan Pell, who personally designed and oversaw the conversion. His walkthrough offers a unique insight into the engineering, craftsmanship and attention to detail behind this remarkable project. The bus is located in South Lincolnshire, near Spalding. Guide Price: £150, 000Viewings are welcomed by appointment. For further information, additional photographs and the digital guided tour, please visit:- details above enquiries are warmly welcomed. My late husband, Alan, had a lifelong passion for engineering and creating things that were a little different. Before embarking on this project, we spent over 36 years building and restoring mechanical organs that were exported all over the world. When he turned his attention to the Routemaster, he approached it with the same attention to detail and craftsmanship. The vision wasn’t simply to create another catering vehicle. It was to create an experience that people would remember. The result was a genuine 1967 Routemaster transformed into a fully equipped fish & chip restaurant, complete with a commercial kitchen downstairs and an atmospheric dining room upstairs. What makes it so special is that it still feels like a Routemaster. The character and charm of the original bus have been carefully preserved while creating a practical hospitality business that has delighted customers at weddings, festivals, private events and public gatherings. My favourite part has always been the upper deck. Watching families and friends enjoying fish and chips whilst sitting in the front seats looking out through the iconic Routemaster windscreen is something quite unique. It always brought smiles to people’s faces and created an experience that simply can’t be replicated by a conventional catering van. It is now time for the bus to begin its next chapter, and we hope it finds an owner who will appreciate not only the opportunity it offers, but also the passion, craftsmanship and thought that went into creating it.
