Category: Photos
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Lowestoft Corporation – AEC Regent II – GBJ 192 -21
Lowestoft Corporation1947AEC Regent IIECW H30/26R Preserved Lowestoft Corporation 21, GBJ 192, a 1947 AEC Regent II with an ECW H30/26R body seen at East Anglia Transport Museum. More information about Lowestoft Corporation Transport can be found at www.petergould.co.uk/lowestoft1.htm Photograph and Copy contributed by Ken Jones 09/02/14 – 11:38 Nice view, Ken. Thanks for posting. Of…
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Tynemouth and District – AEC Regent II – FT 6152 – 152
Tynemouth and District1948AEC Regent IIWeymann H30/26R After the Intake of early 1940, no more vehicles arrived at Percy Main until 1946, in the meantime, seven vehicles were transferred to other Northern General Transport depots, eight more were requisitioned by the Ministry of War Transport.A total of 15 from a fleet of around 110 was a…
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Wakefields Motors – AEC Regent II – FT 6156 – 156
Wakefields Motors1948AEC Regent IIWeymann H30/26R Having completed its journey, 156 is seen here turning round at Whitley Bay Bandstand before returning to North Shields Ferry Landing. The service 8 was known to crews as ‘the track’ because it followed the exact route of the Tynemouth and District trams. The AEC Regent II chassis was well…
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London Transport – AEC Regent II – HGC 225 – STL2692
London Transport1946AEC Regent IIWeymann H30/26R HGC 225 is an AEC Regent II with Weymann H56R body, and it dates from 1946. It wears Country Area green in this view, and the fleet number STL2692. Allowing for the London method of bus overhauls, how many chassis and bodies have worn this fleet number over the years?…
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Halifax Corporation – AEC Regent I – JX 2307 – 22
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page Halifax Corporation Transport and Joint Omnibus Committee1935AEC Regent IRoberts H24/24R If there is one thing I am definite on and that is I did not take this photo, this bus had been withdrawn from service three years before I was…
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Douglas Corporation – AEC Regent I – DMN 650 – 50
Photo by M Standeven Douglas Corporation1939AEC Regent INorthern Counties H27/25R The AEC Regent I first appeared at the 1929 Olympia show it was more or less a cut down version of the six wheeled AEC Renown. AEC coded the early Regents chassis 661 has it had a 6 cylinder 6.1 litre petrol engine, it was…
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Provincial – AEC Regent 1 – CTO 387 – 63
Photo by unknown if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Provincial (Gosport & Fareham Omnibus Co)1936AEC Regent IMetro Cammell H56R Provincial certainly got there moneys worth out of the buses they bought either new or second hand and in the case of the above bus it was originally owned by Nottingham…
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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…