Tag: AEC Regent III RT
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Smith’s Luxury Coaches – AEC Regent III RT – FXT 262
Copyright Ray Soper Smiths Luxury Coaches (Reading) Ltd1940AEC Regent III RTLTPB H56RD This shot is from the Ray Soper gallery contribution titled “Smith’s Luxury Coaches of Reading” click on the title if you would like to view his Gallery and comments.The shot is shown here for indexing purposes but please feel free to make any…
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Smith’s Luxury Coaches – AEC Regent III RT – FXT 283
Copyright Ray Soper Smiths Luxury Coaches (Reading) Ltd1940AEC Regent III RTLTPB H56RD This shot is from the Ray Soper gallery contribution titled “Smith’s Luxury Coaches of Reading” click on the title if you would like to view his Gallery and comments.The shot is shown here for indexing purposes but please feel free to make any…
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Samuel Ledgard – AEC Regent III RT – KYY 868
Samuel Ledgard1950AEC Regent III RTPark Royal H30/26R Before this bus arrived at Samuel Ledgard it was owned by Super Coaches of Upminster who acquired it from of course London Transport. The fleet number whilst at London Transport was RT 4265.All the information for this entry came from Peter Goulds excellent website, I hope he doesn’t…
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Hull Corporation – AEC Regent III RT – BDJ 63 – 143
Kingston upon Hull Corporation Transport1950AEC Regent III RTPark Royal H30/26R KHCT had a large second hand batch of these RT types from 1962 to 1970 they were ex St. Helens Corporation, this bus was D63 in there fleet. There is a preserved St Helens RT type fleet no D67 and a good picture of it…
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Samuel Ledgard – AEC Regent III RT – MXX 148
Samuel Ledgard1949AEC Regent III RTWeymann H30/26R In 1937-8 London Transport got together with AEC to jointly design and produce a new double deck chassis with AECs large 9.6 litre oil engine with air operated gearbox and brakes. From what I can gleam the prototype entered service in 1938 as ST1140 (EYK 396) but it had…
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Douglas Corporation – AEC Regent III RT – GMN 905 – 54
Photo by M Standeven Douglas Corporation1947AEC Regent III RTNorthern Counties H30/25R This is a RT type Regent as its chassis number was O961 186 a provincial Regent III would have a chassis number beginning O9612 000 the 2 stood for series 2. A good way to tell an RT from a Provincial Regent is a…
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London Transport – AEC Regent III RT – KLB 593 – RT 1344
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. London Transport1949AEC Regent III RT RT3/3 Saunders H56R I have dated this bus by its registration and as KLB started being used in July 1949 so I thought it was a fairly safe guess. I have also stated that its original body…
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Samuel Ledgard – AEC Regent III RT – NXP 764
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Samuel Ledgard1953AEC Regent III RTPark Royal H30/26R Here is a nice shot of a couple of ex London Transport Regent RTs in service with Samuel Ledgard the fleet number of the one in the foreground was RT 4410 unfortunately I can…
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Birmingham City – AEC Regent III RT – GOE 631 – 1631
Birmingham City Transport1947AEC Regent III RTPark Royal H54R Having sent some bus ticket shots to the “Old Bus Tickets” website I was looking at the ‘Old Bus Photo’ section (again) and thought you might like to add a picture of probably my all time favourite bus of my youth. The Birmingham Corporation Transport Park Royal…
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London Transport – AEC Regent III RT – NLE 826 – RT3719
Copyright Victor Brumby London Transport1953 (registration date)AEC Regent III RT – RT8/2Weymann H30/26R Two weeks ago my contribution for the ex London Transport STL2117 was posted on this site, the shot was taken in April 1958. At about the same time that shot was taken, spiffing new RTs were coming on stream, and here is…