Tag: AEC
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PMT – AEC Regal I – KEH 608 – S315
Copyright Ian Wild Potteries Motor Traction1946AEC Regal IBrush B34F This shot shows PMT S315 an AEC Regal I about to be towed away from Milton Depot for preservation by Hollis of Queensferry ex Western Welsh Leyland Royal Tiger FUH 424 on 10th October 1970 – wonder what happened to it?The engineless vehicle had been in…
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Margo’s of Thornton Heath – AEC Regal I – CPK 168
Margo’s of Thornton Heath1937AEC Regal IHarrington C33F This picture, taken in 1960 or 1961, shows an AEC Regal of either late pre-war or early post-war vintage – the mechanical specification was virtually identical – with a straight stepped waistrail body of unknown (to me) manufacture. I would suspect that the chassis is of the usual…
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Provincial – AEC Regal I/Regent I – EHO 282 – 15
Provincial (Gosport & Fareham Omnibus Co)1943AEC Regal I/Regent IReading H??/??R Doubt exists about the vehicle chassis type, but here is the story as of now.In 1943, Mr Orme-White carried out his first (of many) vehicle re-constructions, involving an AEC Regal I (although recent research suggests it was a Regent I chassis), purchased from the War…
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Bickers of Coddenham – AEC Regal 1 – GK 3172
Copyright Victor Brumby Bickers of Coddenham1931AEC Regal IDuple C32F Here is a pair of poor photos taken in Great Yarmouth in August 1958. As a London Transport spotter predominantly, I was excited to note the registration GK 3172 on a cream and green AEC coach under the Bickers title – it had to be an…
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Trent – AEC Regal I – RC 9668/74 – 303/768
Copyright Bob Gell Trent Motor Traction 303 – 1947 – AEC Regal I – Willowbrook FDP39F Trent Motor Traction 768 – 1947 – AEC Regal I – Willowbrook B35F A company not yet represented on this site is Trent Motor Traction, so this photo is to rectify that omission. In the early postwar years, Trent…
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Wakefields Motors – AEC Regal – FT 7278 – 178
Wakefields Motors1952AEC Regal 1Beadle FC35F These Beadle bodies were popular with many BET group companies, most were built on refurbished pre war chassis, usually AEC or Leyland, and that was certainly the case with ten of Northern General Transport. However, from as early as 1923, NGT had a number of vehicles built on their own…
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Sheffield Corporation – AEC Regal I – KWJ 184 – 1184
Sheffield Corporation1948AEC Regal IWeymann B34R A few early post war Sheffield single deckers found their way to Contractors on withdrawal and this example is with H Camm. It is seen on the car park near Pond Street Bus Station in 1963. The bus would have been a regular performer on Peak District services during its…
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Red Bus Service – AEC Regal – Craven – VO 6806
Red Bus Service1931AEC Regal 662Craven B32F VO 6806 is a petrol-engined AEC Regal 662 with Craven B32F body new in 1931 to Bevan & Barker Ltd. (t/a Red Bus Service), Warsop Road Garage, Mansfield, one of three similar vehicles. The company was taken over by Mansfield District Traction on 1st January 1957 along with eight…
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Express Motors – AEC Regal I 0662 – RC 9680
Express Motors1947AEC Regal I 0662Willowbrook rebody 1958 FDP39F RC 9680 was new to Trent in 1947 with a Willowbrook B35F body being lengthened and fitted with a new Willowbrook body in 1958. It was withdrawn by Trent in 1963 and is shown here four years later laying over in the shadow of Caernarvon Castle on…
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Provincial – AEC Regal 4 – CG 9607 – 24
Copyright David Whitaker Provincial (Gosport & Fareham Omnibus Co)1934AEC Regal 4Harrington B32R I well remember these Regals from my childhood in the Gosport area between 1949 and 1952. The very first Regal 4 – the Arabic numeral denoted the installation of a four cylinder engine – was converted in June 1930 from a stock Regal…