Category: Photos
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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,…
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Sheffield Corporation – AEC Regent I – DWB 27 – 27
Copyright Unknown Sheffield Corporation1937AEC Regent IWeymann H55R Quite a few of Sheffield’s Regent 1 intake of 1937/8 with both original and rebuilt bodies survived up to around 1960 with the majority being withdrawn in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. One such survivor was No. 27 registration DWB 27, a Weymann bodied H55R example. This…
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Westcliff-on-Sea – AEC Regent I – MV 3394
Westcliff-on-Sea Motor Services1932/3AEC Regent IMetro Cammell H??R Although it has had a passing mention (in connection with the ex-BH&D Dennis Lances it acquired) Westcliff-on-Sea Motor Services has not so far had a mention here in its own right. To rectify that, attached is a shot of one of its more unusual vehicles, AEC Regent MV…
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London Transport – AEC Regent I – AXM 693 – STL441
London Transport1934AEC Regent ILondon Transport H26/30R AXM 693 is an AEC Regent (Regent I in some listings but not in all of them) from 1934, new to London Transport with fleet number STL441. Her LPTB body has H56R seating layout and she now resides at Brooklands, following the relocation of the collection from Cobham. We…