Category: Photos
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National Omnibus – AEC Regent I – GF 7217
Copyright V C Jones Copyright Surfleet Transport Photos Copyright J C Gilham National Omnibus/LGOC/London Transport1930AEC Regent IShort Bros. L26/24R In LGOC days, it competed with independents as much in the rural areas around London as in Central London. Two of the main contenders were, in the South, East Surrey, based in Reigate, and, in the…
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Brighton Corporation – AEC Regent I – FUF 63 – 63
Brighton Corporation1939AEC Regent IWeymann H56R FUF 63 is an AEC Regent I of the O661 variety, built in 1939. She is at Dunsfold on one of the occasions the Wisley event wasn’t at Wisley, on 10 April 2011. The second view is a close-up of the fleetname and Municipal Crest. I have memories of reading…
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Reading Corporation – AEC Regent I – RD 7127 – 47
Reading Corporation1935AEC Regent IPark Royal L26/26R RD 7127 is an AEC Regent I with ‘oil’ engine, making her an O661. Those with petrol engines did not have the O prefix, and it dates from 1935. It has Park Royal bodywork, to the L52R layout, and we see it at Longcross, Chobham, on 1 April 2007.…
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Hanson – AEC/Hanson Regent – KVH 889 – 347
Hanson1956AEC/Hanson RegentRoe H37/28R This bus was originally a 1938 AEC Regal coach registration ACX903 fleet number 113 and it had a Plaxton C32F body. It was then rebodied by Duple in 1949 to a front entrance bus with 35 seats and renumbered 284. In 1956 the Duple Body was transferred to an ex Bottomleys Motors…
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Hanson – AEC/Hanson Regent – TVH 497 – 361
Copyright Eric Bawden Hanson1950AEC/Hanson RegentRoe H37/28F Here we have a picture I took at Sandtoft around 1972/3.This bus started life in 1950 with Hanson of Huddersfield as an AEC Regal III 9621E with a Duple C33F body, registration EVH 805 fleet number 295. To ‘modernise it’ in 1954 Hanson had Plaxton remove the front bulkhead…
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London Transport – AEC Regent Bluebird ST – APC 168 – ST1037
Photo: Copyright unknown LGOC/LGCS/LCBS1932AEC RegentLGOC H26/22R The Bluebird six-wheel LT was an impressive and attractive variant of the LT class, but the Bluebird ST was rare. ST1037 was one of the first 8 of a total of just 23 Bluebird STs which London General built for their expanding green Country Services. Initially allocated to Windsor…
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Sheffield Corporation – AEC Regal IV – OWB 14 – 214
Copyright ‘unknown’ if you know please get in touch Sheffield Corporation1952AEC Regal IV 9821S Roe B44F Sheffield quickly tried out underfloor engined single deckers when they became available with three Leyland Olympics in 1951 and three of these Roe bodied AEC Regal IV in 1952. Notably, all were for the A fleet although I recall the…
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London Transport – AEC Regal IV – MXX 21 – RF 379
London TransportAEC Regal IVMCW B41F There were always a few places around London where red and green buses were seen together and this photo was taken at Uxbridge in 1974. Green RF 53 registration LYF 404 was a former Green Line vehicle, as shown by the twin headlights. Alongside is RF 379 registration MXX 21…
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SMT – AEC Regal IV – JSF 149 – B 449
Scottish Motor Traction1952AEC Regal IV 9821EAlexander C30F SMT, who later became Eastern Scottish, were a regular sight in Newcastle, they shared several routes into Scotland with United, and this one is discharging its passengers at the drop off point in the Haymarket Bus Station. There were three different routes to Edinburgh, and two to Glasgow.…
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London Transport – AEC Regal IV – MLL 971 – RF 334
London TransportAEC Regal IVMCW B41F Here is another of the Uxbridge allocated RF buses, seen in the summer sun of 1971, the year in which UX garage saw the welcome return of these stalwart performers, having lost them previously in 1962 in favour of RT double deckers. RF 334, MLL 971 stands at Heathrow Central…