Tag: AEC
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Front entrance and rear engined Routemasters
The front entranced Routemaster RMF1254 was unique in London and after being banned by the unions it was sold to Northern General who were the only provincial operator of Routemasters. All of Northern Generals Routemasters were built more or less to the same specification as RMF1254 except they had Leyland O.600 9.8 litre engines. When…
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Midland General AEC Regent II/Weymann
Until I was about 5 we lived in Nottingham. At that time (the early 1950s) Nottingham City Transport was dominated by pre-selector AEC Regents (including quite a lot of pre-war ones). These were fine in their way – but the transmission music of a pre-selector was quite different from the Mark II crash gearbox. We…
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AEC Disasters
“All one can do now is salute the old firm and what it achieved. …..the men and women who together comprised AEC may not have always got it right but they produced many fine vehicles and many which made big advances in design. They will long be remembered.” Thus Alan Townsin closes his book “The…
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London Transport RT 4742
Quite by chance I came across the Old Bus Photos website and was quite interested in the information given for RT 4742 on Victor Brumbys RT posting and I thought perhaps you might like chapter and verse on that particular bonnet number so here goes. The original RT 4742 was indeed one of a batch…
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Rochdale Regent Vs
Lancashire in the fifties and sixties. All that variety! Well, that is perhaps what most enthusiasts will think, but as one who was there at the time, I can tell you that it was merely a variety of Leyland Titans. Of the 27 pre-1968 municipal bus fleets in Lancashire, all but one operated PD-series Titans,…
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Rochdale Corporation – AEC Swift – MDK 735G – 35
Rochdale Corporation1969AEC Swift MP2RSeddon B46F My Thanks to Ian Beswick for contributing the above excellent shot of this Rochdale Corporation AEC Swift with its Seddon body who also supplied bus bodies under the name of Pennine.The Swift was AECs move into the rear engined single decker market. It first appeared at the 1964 commercial motor…
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Southampton Corporation – AEC Swift – TCR 293H – 7
Copyright Pete Davies Southampton Corporation1969AEC 2MP2R SwiftEast Lancs B47D Here are an off side front and a near side rear view of Southampton Corporation TCR 293H fleet number 7. This AEC 2MP2R Swift was built in 1969 with East Lancs B47D bodywork. She is seen in Pound Tree Road between duties. I captured her on…
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Lancashire United Transport – AEC Swift – NTC 109G – 292
Copyright John Stringer Lancashire United Transport1969AEC Swift MP2RAlexander B43D LUT’s single deckers were often a little different from the norm. This AEC Swift was one of three (291-293) delivered in either late 1968 or early 1969 (sources differ) along with some similarly bodied Bristol RESL’s. Their Alexander bodies were based on the W-type, but featuring…
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Leeds City Transport – AEC Swift – JNW 952E – 52
Leeds City Transport1967AEC Swift MP2RRoe B48D Leeds bought several batches of AEC Swifts between 1967 and 1971. Prior to these appearing the fleet was 90% double deck with around 15 saloons most of which were AEC Reliances some with centre entrance bodies with the later ones being dual door for one man operation.Seen here are…
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Birmingham City – A E C Swift – KOX 663F – 3663
Birmingham City Transport1967A E C Swift 505 MP2RMetro-Cammell B37D+30 KOX 663F, is an A E C Swift 505 MP2R built in 1967 with Metro-Cammell B37D+30 standing bodywork. New to Birmingham and then West Midlands as 3663 it was acquired by Mid Warwickshire Motors before being preserved and has just been fully restored in West Midland…