Tag: AEC Regent I
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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Regent 1 intake of 1937/8 with both original and rebuilt bodies survived up to around 1960 with the majority being withdrawn in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. One such survivor was No. 27 registration DWB 27, a Weymann bodied H55R example.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…
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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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Provincial – AEC Regal I/Regent I – EHO 282 – 15
Provincial (Gosport & Fareham Omnibus Co)1943AEC Regal I/Regent IReading H??/??R Doubt exists about the vehicle chassis type, but here is the story as of now.In 1943, Mr Orme-White carried out his first (of many) vehicle re-constructions, involving an AEC Regal I (although recent research suggests it was a Regent I chassis), purchased from the War…