Old bus photos

Tag: AEC Regent

  • Ex Rhondda Regents

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    In about 1966 a handful of ex-Rhondda Orion-bodied AEC Regents with traditional radiator and Crossley synchromesh gearboxes joined the fleet of Smith’s Coaches, Reading. Registrations began with NTG, but the numbers escape me. I always assumed they were Regent IIIs, but a reference somewhere makes me think they might have been Regent Vs. They were…

  • A Day Trip To Spalding

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    I thought I would send these two photos as a matter of general interest. In May 1962 our family went for a day coach excursion from Bradford to the tulip fields around Spalding. The coach parked by Spalding bus station and everyone went for a meal except me. I had my camera with me and…

  • Rhondda Regents

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    I have scanned through the numerous pages on this very interesting site (full marks for content), but I am still looking for pics/info about the AEC Regents that Rhondda Transport used in the late 1940s and into the early 1950s, I spent lots of school holidays in the area and these vehicles were always favourites…

  • Mill Transport Bus ANW 679

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    Just sorting through some of my old reject photos when I came across this one of ANW 679. It’s one of a batch which for some reason all ended up with the top deck cut short on the photo. Hence the reject. However, the passage of time makes it interesting. Written on the back in…

  • Hanson – AEC/Hanson Regent – KVH 889 – 347

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    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…

  • Hanson – AEC/Hanson Regent – TVH 497 – 361

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    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…

  • London Transport – AEC Regent Bluebird ST – APC 168 – ST1037

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    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…