Tag: AEC
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Smiths Luxury Coaches – AEC Regent III – NTG 137
Copyright S Fitton Smiths Luxury Coaches (Reading) Ltd1954AEC Regent III 9613SWeymann Orion H30/26R Quite awhile ago on the ‘Q&As’ page there was a question titled “Ex Rhondda Regents” which questioned the number of AEC Regents that joined the fleet of Smiths Luxury Coaches from the Rhondda. The question was answered but as usual the thread…
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Sheffield Corporation – AEC Regent III – UWE 765 – 1265
Sheffield Corporation1955AEC Regent III 9613SRoe H33/25R Sheffield bought 86 AEC Regent III in 1955/6 incorporating the new look front more usually associated with the Regent V model.The first to arrive were a batch of 32 for the B fleet numbered 1251 – 1282 with handsome Roe bodies. 1265 is shown outside the Roe premises at…
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Newcastle Corporation – AEC Regent III – NVK 341 – 341
Copyright Ronnie Hoye Newcastle Corporation1950AEC Regent III 9612ANorthern Coachbuilders H30/26R Not a very good picture I’m afraid. I got my PSV licence in 1967 with Tynemouth & Wakefields (Northern General). By the time of the Queens Silver Jubilee in 1977 I was with Armstrong Galley, the coaching division of Tyne & Wear PTE. The PTE…
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London Transport – AEC Regent III – MXX 232 – RLH 32
Copyright Allan Machon London Transport1952AEC Regent III 9613E Weymann L53R Just a short contribution but I thought you may be interested in the above shots of ex London Transport RLH 32 which looked a real treat at the Oxford bus rally last Sunday 16th October.As you can see it is still in the Samuel Ledgard livery…
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Nottingham City Transport – AEC Regent III – SAU 203 -203
Copyright Bob Gell Nottingham City Transport1954AEC Regent III 9613SPark Royal L27/26R After Nottingham City Transport had obtained the ex Bradford lowbridge Daimlers to start the services to the then newly developing Clifton Estate, an existing order for Park Royal bodied AEC Regent IIIs was amended, and 10 were delivered in April and June 1954 with…
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Hull Corporation – AEC Regent III – OTV 165 – 170
Copyright Bob Gell Kingston upon Hull Corporation Transport1954AEC Regent IIIPark Royal H30/26R This photograph was taken in Summer 1969, at a very familiar location in Hull and it shows 170/2 OTV165/7 of the KHCT fleet.During 1967, KHCT acquired no less than 36 of these Park Royal bodied Regent IIIs from Nottingham City Transport, exactly half…
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Hebble – AEC Regent III – AJX 245 – 30
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Hebble Motor Services1948AEC Regent III 9612ERoe L27/26R I recently came across this photograph. I know very little about its history with Hebble, but it is familiar to me – after sale by Hebble, this and an identical vehicle AJX 281 were…
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Hull Corporation – AEC Regent III – FBC 284 – 103
Copyright Robert Mack Kingston upon Hull Corporation Transport1949AEC Regent III 9612EWeymann H30/26R As part of the replacement programme for the post-war AEC Regents, by Leyland Atlanteans, a number of second-hand vehicles were purchased by Hull Corporation. As mentioned in a previous Hull Corporation posting one of these batches were twelve AEC Regents from Leicester Corporation,…
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Liverpool City Transport – AEC Regent III – NKD 540 – A40
Copyright Alan Murray-Rust Liverpool City Transport1954AEC Regent III 9613SSaunders-Roe H32/26R Liverpool City Transport’s A40 can reasonably be stated to be a unique bus. As far as I can make out, it was one of just two double-deck buses for the UK market with bodies built as a Saunders-Roe product (the other being its twin, A39),…
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Bradford Corporation – AEC Regent III – HKW 82 – 82
Copyright John Stringer Bradford Corporation1952AEC Regent III 9613EEast Lancs. H35/26R The trend for concealing the front ends of halfcab buses underneath what was to often later referred to as a ‘tin front’ was initiated in the immediate postwar period by BMMO with its homemade D5 model. Shortly afterwards, neighbouring Birmingham City Transport decided to follow…