Tag: AEC Regent V
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Southampton Corporation – AEC Regent V – BOW 507C – 371
Southampton Corporation1965AEC Regent V 2D3RANeepsend H37/29R This AEC Regent V with East Lancs (Neepsend) H66R bodywork was new in 1965 to Southampton City Transport with fleet number 371. Some of this delivery (358 to 370) were to have been 358 HCR to 370 HCR, but were caught in the change to year suffix numbers. Indeed,…
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Provincial – AEC Regent V – 972 CWL – 60
Provincial (Gosport & Fareham Omnibus Co)1957AEC Regent V LD3RAPark Royal H37/28R Taken at Hoeford depot on 30/03/69 having been recently transferred from City of Oxford where it had been No H972 this photo shows newly painted Provincial No 60 an LD3RA AEC Regent V with a Park Royal H37/28R body registration number 972 CWL delivered…
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Hebble – AEC Regent V – GJX 847 – 303 – (2)
Hebble Motor Services1957AEC Regent V D3RVWeymann H33/28R Due to a height restriction at their garage in Walnut Street, Halifax, Hebble had always purchased lowbridge double deckers, and their first two Regent V’s (75/76, GCP 4/5) of 1956 carried lowbridge Weymann Orion bodies. However, by early 1957 the northern end of the garage had been modified…
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South Wales Transport – AEC Regent V – MCY 407 – 447
South Wales Transport Co Ltd1955AEC Regent VMD3RVWeymann H33/26R Seen at the Swansea Bus Museum Running Day was this AEC Regent V MD3RV010 bearing Weymann body M6709 H33/26R and new to South Wales (447) in 1955. South Wales were loyal AEC customers over the years. For several years the livery was all-over red without the cream…
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Southampton Corporation – AEC Regent V – KOW 909F – 401
Southampton Corporation1967AEC Regent V 3D2RANeepsend H40/30R KOW 909F was in the last batch of AEC Regents delivered to Southampton, in 1967. It is of the 3D2RA variety and the body was built by Neepsend, to the H70R formation. It was decorated in the early 1980s as being the Transport Department’s last rear entry bus, but…
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Huddersfield Corporation – AEC Regent V – PVH 992 – 192
Huddersfield Corporation1960AEC Regent V 2D2RAEast Lancs. H37/28R 192 (PVH 992) was an AEC Regent V 2D2RA with East Lancs. H37/28R bodywork, one of a pair (192/3) added to the Huddersfield Joint Omnibus Committee fleet on 1st February 1960. They had the AV590 engine and Monocontrol semi-automatic gearboxes. The traditional exposed radiator arrangement had remained an…
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Leeds City Transport – AEC Regent V – XUM 888 – 888
Leeds City Transport1957AEC Regent V MD2RARoe H33/27R Leeds was one of several operators initially not persuaded by the AEC “new look” front end (a preference with which I entirely concur), and its first Regent V deliveries retained the classic radiator design and hence the outward general appearance of the Regent III. These buses were of…
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Upminster & District – AEC Regent V – 220 CXK
Upminster & District1961AEC Regent V 2D2RAPark Royal H38/31F In 1961, London Transport bought a Regent V on behalf of BEA to test the practicality of using double deckers on the service between Cromwell Road Air Terminal and Heathrow. The vehicle had a Park Royal H38/17F body, the restricted seating figure arising from the adaptation of…
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Yorkshire Woollen District – AEC Regent V – FHD 121 – 94
Yorkshire Woollen District1961AEC Regent V 2D3RANorthern Counties H39/31F Yorkshire Woollen was fundamentally a Leyland operator, apart from a few Guy Arabs in the early post war years. The first YWD Regent Vs appeared when ten Metro Cammell H39/31F bodied buses of the LD3RA type were delivered in 1958, to be followed by fifteen more in…
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Eastbourne Corporation – AEC Regent V – HJK 156 – 56
Eastbourne Corporation1961AEC Regent V 2D3RVEast Lancashire H32/28R Having been a satisfied user of the AEC Regent III in its 9613A crash gearbox form, in 1956 Eastbourne Corporation turned to the Regent V D3RV with the dry liner A218 9.6 litre engine, synchromesh gearbox and vacuum brakes. DHC 649-655 had H30/26R bodies from the Corporation’s long…