Category: Photos
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Hull Corporation – AEC Regent III – OTV 165 – 170
Copyright Bob Gell Kingston upon Hull Corporation Transport1954AEC Regent IIIPark Royal H30/26R This photograph was taken in Summer 1969, at a very familiar location in Hull and it shows 170/2 OTV165/7 of the KHCT fleet.During 1967, KHCT acquired no less than 36 of these Park Royal bodied Regent IIIs from Nottingham City Transport, exactly half…
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Hebble – AEC Regent III – AJX 245 – 30
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Hebble Motor Services1948AEC Regent III 9612ERoe L27/26R I recently came across this photograph. I know very little about its history with Hebble, but it is familiar to me – after sale by Hebble, this and an identical vehicle AJX 281 were…
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Hull Corporation – AEC Regent III – FBC 284 – 103
Copyright Robert Mack Kingston upon Hull Corporation Transport1949AEC Regent III 9612EWeymann H30/26R As part of the replacement programme for the post-war AEC Regents, by Leyland Atlanteans, a number of second-hand vehicles were purchased by Hull Corporation. As mentioned in a previous Hull Corporation posting one of these batches were twelve AEC Regents from Leicester Corporation,…
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Liverpool City Transport – AEC Regent III – NKD 540 – A40
Copyright Alan Murray-Rust Liverpool City Transport1954AEC Regent III 9613SSaunders-Roe H32/26R Liverpool City Transport’s A40 can reasonably be stated to be a unique bus. As far as I can make out, it was one of just two double-deck buses for the UK market with bodies built as a Saunders-Roe product (the other being its twin, A39),…
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Bradford Corporation – AEC Regent III – HKW 82 – 82
Copyright John Stringer Bradford Corporation1952AEC Regent III 9613EEast Lancs. H35/26R The trend for concealing the front ends of halfcab buses underneath what was to often later referred to as a ‘tin front’ was initiated in the immediate postwar period by BMMO with its homemade D5 model. Shortly afterwards, neighbouring Birmingham City Transport decided to follow…
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Sheffield Corporation – AEC Regent III – KWE 258 – 258
Sheffield Corporation1948AEC Regent IIIWeymann H30/26R The three batches of Weymann bodied AEC Regent III’s, comprising forty vehicles in all, were, to my mind at least, arguably the most attractive of all the double deckers taken into stock by Sheffield Transport Department in the immediate post-war period. The initial batch of ten, 527-536 (JWB 727/828/729-736) probably…
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Sheffield Corporation – AEC Regent III – RWA 174 – 2174
Sheffield Corporation1953AEC Regent III 9631SRoe H33/25R It’s November 1967 and Sheffield B fleet 2174 is at Central Bus Station ready for an hours journey round the City on the 9 Inner Circle route which is a category A service. The Inner Circle traversed the older inner part of the City through much industry and terraced…
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Western SMT – AEC Regent III – BSD 454 – 549
Western SMTAEC Regent III 9612ENorthern Counties L27/26R Western SMT took fifty-eight of these handsome preselector Regent III’s with Northern Counties lowbridge bodies between 1947 and 1950, being registered BSD 401 to 458, Strangely, BSD 441 of 1949 never entered service with them and was immediately sold to the independent York Bros. of Northampton. The rest…
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Tynemouth and District – AEC Regent III – FT 6564 – 164
Tynemouth and District1949AEC Regent IIINorthern Coachbuilders H30/26R Eight of these splendid AEC Regent III were among the 1949 intake. By 1951, the size of the name had been considerably reduced; this would also be around the time these were due for their first repaint, so my guess would be that the photo was taken roughly…
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Newcastle Corporation – AEC Regent III – KVK 986 – 86
Copyright Unknown Copyright Unknown Newcastle Corporation1947AEC Regent IIIRoe H31/25R Before the D.V.L.A. It seems to have been common practice that local authorities would issue registrations to bus companies En-block which would then be allocated as and when required, as a result, vehicles which were two or three years apart could have registrations which were numerically…