Tag: London Transport
-
London Transport GS Class
This year marks the 60th anniversary of London Transport’s GS class. Perhaps the most surprising thing about the GS was that such a competent and handsome bus should emerge from a specification that on paper looks decidedly iffy. Not to put to fine a point on it, it looks like a real bitsa: bitsa this,…
-
Ten LTs in a Row – Hyde Park – Spring 1944
In the middle of the war, the shortage of fuel and rubber necessitated a national 25% reduction in both essentials. In London, many morning rush-hour buses were parked in Central London, mostly in the Royal Parks, where special dispensation had been given. Drivers and conductors travelled back to their home garages on the remaining buses…
-
London Transport Body Builders Plates
Can anyone help with a question I have relating to LT body builders plates from RT and RTL buses? I recently rode on an RTL and noticed that the builders plate stated the fact that it was built by Leyland Motors! I have a plate in my possession from a RT and the plate has…
-
London Transport ST798 – GO 5164 (RN17787) – Anti-submarine Simulator
Jas Stirling once told me, years ago, that there was thought to be an ex-London ST walled-up somewhere in Jerusalem, having been a (military?) canteen and kept for old times’ sake from the breakers there. Did anyone else ever hear that odd rumour? Jas said that he thought a group was attempting to locate and…
-
London Transport – Model LT “Scooter” LT1033
A few shots of one of my models scratchbuilt in card to a scale of 1/43rd (7mm scale)This time a 1931 London Transport AEC Renown “Scooter” LT1033 six wheeeled single deck bus is shown below.The model was commisioned for a client in Canada. Completed shell in primer prior to assembly and painting Painted, lettered and…
-
London Transport – Model ex-AEC STL Breakdown Tender
A few shots of one of my models scratchbuilt in card to a scale of 1/43rd (7mm scale)This time London Transport AEC STL 175 registration AGX 517 converted to a Breakdown TenderThis vehicle has been preserved and is at Cobham. Painted, lettered and ready for the next breakdown. Iain Simms04/2012
-
Front entrance and rear engined Routemasters
The front entranced Routemaster RMF1254 was unique in London and after being banned by the unions it was sold to Northern General who were the only provincial operator of Routemasters. All of Northern Generals Routemasters were built more or less to the same specification as RMF1254 except they had Leyland O.600 9.8 litre engines. When…
-
London Transport RT 4742
Quite by chance I came across the Old Bus Photos website and was quite interested in the information given for RT 4742 on Victor Brumbys RT posting and I thought perhaps you might like chapter and verse on that particular bonnet number so here goes. The original RT 4742 was indeed one of a batch…
-
Aldenham & ‘CU’ numbers
Identity swapping between vehicles of identical make and model went on from the time that the LGOC moved its overhaul systems to the new Chiswick works in 1922. This meant that as a vehicle went into works for overhaul its identity was taken over by a freshly overhauled vehicle. The system operated through the London…
-
London Transport – Leyland Titan TD2 – GX 131 – TD 85
Photograph by D W K Jones Permission to publish granted by Capital Transport Publishing London Transport 1932 Leyland Titan TD2 Birch H30/26R In my first supplementary comment on the London Transport low-bridge Daimlers with Duple bodies (posted here), I said the following: “A further look at D1’s lean-back, but ramrod-straight front, makes me recall the…