Tag: AEC Regent V
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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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East Yorkshire – AEC Regent V – VKH 43 – 643
East Yorkshire Motor Services1956AEC Regent VWillowbrook HBB56R Notice the roof this shape was unique to East Yorkshire for one reason the Beverly North Bar. This is the sole survivor of the gateways into the town of Beverly the shape of the arch comes to a point requiring the roof of the bus to do the…
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East Yorkshire – AEC Regent V – WAT 651 – 651
East Yorkshire Motor Services1957AEC Regent VRoe HBB66R Photographed at Scarborough bus station this Beverly Bar styled Regent V with normal V radiator is on route to Bridlington via the Butlins Holiday camp at Filey.I have now found my old fleet lists above information comes from one dated 20th February 1964 the only other snippet of…
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Leeds City Transport – AEC Regent V – XUM 894 – 894
Leeds City transport1957AEC Regent VRoe H60R Yet another example of a Regent V with a Regent III radiator. If I remember Leeds city Transport buses were nearly all semi automatic or had clutch less gearboxes of some description probable to help them off to quick start from the bus stops. 894 is the last of…
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Liverpool City Transport – AEC Regent V – VKB 774 – A176
Liverpool City Transport1957AEC Regent VMetro Cammell Weymann H33/29R A unique radiator grill I think don’t know why as the standard grill looked much better than this tin look. I also think how much better the livery would have been if there was a nice cream band between the upper and lower deck, there was far…
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Hebble – AEC Regent V – GJX 847 – 303 – (1)
Hebble Motor Services 1957AEC Regent V D3RV Weymann Orion H33/28R If you read the copy that was with the photo of the West Yorkshire Bristol KSW6B fleet no DBW 20 (link here) I said that the photo was taken from the top deck of an Hebble Regent V well this is the Regent V.Hebble used to paint…
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York Pullman – AEC Regent V – ODN 348 – 71
York Pullman Bus Company Ltd1957AEC Regent V MD3RV Roe H33/28RD A “could have been better” shot of a York Pullman Regent V with its rear doors closed. Talking of which does anybody know how the rear doors worked, were they air operated by the driver or operated by the conductor either manually or air assisted. I…
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United Services – AEC Regent V – UWT 876
United Services1957AEC Regent VRoe L27/26RD W. Everett & Son United Services to give them there full name operated from the Yorkshire village of Kinsley which is between Barnsley and Pontefract they ran services to nearby towns such as Leeds, Wakefield, Barnsley and Doncaster.This bus delivered new to United Services along with UWT 875 another Regent…
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Blue Ensign – AEC Regent V – 758 NDT
Blue Ensign Coaches Ltd1964AEC Regent VRoe H41/32F The Doncaster area seemed to have had more than its fair share of independents and here is another one Blue Ensign. There first route was from Rossington to Doncaster Yorkshire in 1920. I think the reason for the number of independents was all the mining towns in the…
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East Yorkshire – AEC Regent V – VKH 34 – 634
Photo by “unknown” – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. East Yorkshire Motor Services1956AEC Regent VWillowbrook HBB56R This is another highbridge Beverly Bar Regent V of East Yorkshire Motor Services this time a view of the near side, but what is very interesting is the single decker behind. You did…