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Provincial – AEC Regent I – DAU 462 – 62
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Provincial (Gosport & Fareham Omnibus Co)1937AEC Regent ICraven H56R Here is another of the four ex Nottingham Regents that Provincial acquired in 1954 it was fleet number 220 in the Nottingham fleet. According to Stephen Didymus this vehicle was partially rebuilt…
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Cheltenham District – AEC Regent I – DG 9819 – 2
Copyright Colin Martin Copyright Davis Simpson Collection Cheltenham District1934AEC Regent IWeymann H30/24R When my photos of the Cheltenham & District Albion VenturerCX19 No. 72, were published they attracted a comment from Ian Thompson which read as follows-“Three of the civilised and handsome Weymann-bodied 56-seat AEC Regents, mentioned by Chris, went in 1947 to fellow Red…
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Provincial – AEC Regent I – JML 784 – 48
Copyright David Whitaker Provincial (Gosport & Fareham Omnibus Co)1938AEC Regent IWeymann H56R On 31st December 1962, a heavy snowfall occurred in the Portsmouth area, an unusual happening, and the snowy conditions lingered on until the March of 1963. The immediate consequence in Portsmouth was that Portsmouth’s trolleybuses bounced on the snow-packed uneven and unsalted roads…
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London Transport – AEC Regent 1 – GJ 2098 – ST 922
Copyright Chris Hebbron London Transport1930AEC Regent 1Tilling or Dodson (H27/25RO) “John Whitaker was interested in Christopher Dodson bus bodies built for operators outside London and I mentioned that Tilling had purchased 30 Dodson-bodied AEC Regents for their Brighton operation. I’ve now found out that they were identical to the 191 AEC Regents they operated…
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London Transport – AEC Regent 1 – DGX 212 – STL 1684
Copyright Victor Brumby London Transport1936AEC Regent ILondon Transport (Chiswick) H56R A London furniture maker adopted an ex-London Regent for a mobile showroom. Going about its business on August 24th. 1957, DGX 212 – STL 1684 was brought to a halt by the overhanging awning of the Odeon cinema in Gold Street, Kettering, which broke its…
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London Transport – AEC Regent 1 – BXD 474 – STL 806
Copyright Victor Brumby London Transport1935AEC Regent 1London Transport (Chiswick) H56R Below is the note I wrote on the back of the above photograph. BXD 474, this yellow and blue STL (806) was seen in Kettering on March 10th. 1958. Driver Robert Carter advised that his company, Zenith Furniture, had this mobile showroom-converted AEC and two…
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Progressive Coaches (Cambridge) – AEC Regent 1 – DLU 116
Copyright Victor Brumby Progressive Coaches (Cambridge)1935AEC Regent 1London Transport (Chiswick) H26/30R I am coming to the end of my boyhood ex-London Transport (photographed) sightings now. I proffer this shot of ex-London Transports STL 2117 during the building of Stevenage New Town, when Mowlem Construction hired their workers’ transport from Progressive Motor Coaches of Cambridge. STL…
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Portsmouth Corporation – AEC Regent I – RV 719 – 35
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Portsmouth Corporation1931AEC Regent IShort Bros. H26/24R This vehicle was one of two early diesel-engined buses bought by Portsmouth Corporation in 1931, the other being a Crossley Condor. They were both bought as an experiment and compared with four Leyland Titan TD1,…
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Sheffield Corporation – AEC Regent I – BWE 526 – 208
Copyright R H G Simpson Sheffield Corporation1935AEC Regent IWeymann H56R Another R H G Simpson photo which I think is worth sharing. Sheffield livery as you’ve never seen it before? Although many vehicles were taken into stock in 1935, this one was not part of a batch, and is possibly the only bus to appear…
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Wakefields Motors – AEC Regent I – FT 2611 – 42
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Wakefields Motors1932AEC Regent IShort Bros – Northern Coachbuilders H56R (1945) Featured elsewhere on this site is a posting of a 1931 Short Bros bodied AEC Regent of Portsmouth Corporation. Between 1931/2 Percy Main depot took delivery of 16 virtually identical vehicles,…