Tag: London Transport
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London Transport – AEC Routemaster – WLT 339 – RM 339
London Transport1960AEC Routemaster 4/5RM5/4Park Royal H36/28R The 630 trolleybus route took over from the former South Metropolitan tramway that ran between West Croydon and Mitcham on 12 September 1937, and was extended northwards over ex LCC tramway routes to a destination that, on the vehicle blinds, rather indecisively declared itself to be “Nr. Willesden Junction”.…
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London Transport – AEC Routemaster – CUV 308C – RML 2308
London Transport1965AEC RoutemasterPark Royal H40/32R OBP seems yet to have a picture of Routemasters in the Country Area livery, so here is one. RML 2308, delivered to London Transport in November 1965, is seen at Biggin Hill in the following year. These green buses, which totalled one hundred in two batches of fifty, RML 2306-…
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Chesterfield Corporation – AEC Reliance – 495 ALH – 18
Chesterfield Corporation1960AEC Reliance MU3RAWillowbrook B42D Chesterfield bought this bus from London Transport it was RW1 in their fleet. Roof windows were more likely to be found on dual purpose or coaches rather than on a bus but this bus had them. It also had a dual entrance with, as usual at London Transport a front…
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London Transport – AEC Reliance – 497 ALH – RW3
London Transport1960AEC Reliance 2MU2RAWillowbrook B42D 497 ALH, AEC Reliance 2MU2RA with Willowbrook B42D body, dates from 1960. She is, of course, better known as seen here in London Transport’s RW3 guise, although she spent some time with other operators – notably Chesterfield with her two sisters. She’s seen at the Alton Rally on 21 July…
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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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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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London Transport – AEC Regent III RT – KLB 593 – RT 1344
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. London Transport1949AEC Regent III RT RT3/3 Saunders H56R I have dated this bus by its registration and as KLB started being used in July 1949 so I thought it was a fairly safe guess. I have also stated that its original body…
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Samuel Ledgard – AEC Regent III RT – NXP 764
Photographer unknown – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Samuel Ledgard1953AEC Regent III RTPark Royal H30/26R Here is a nice shot of a couple of ex London Transport Regent RTs in service with Samuel Ledgard the fleet number of the one in the foreground was RT 4410 unfortunately I can…