Tag: AEC
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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…
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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…