Tag: London Transport
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Browns Blue Bus – AEC Regent III RT – KLB 596
Copyright Mike Greenwood Browns Blue Bus Service1950AEC Regent III RT RT3/3Saunders H56R originally now Weymann I was interested to read about Victor’s visit to Leicester in 1958 to see the ex-LT Daimlers in service with Browns Blue. A good friend of mine, Mick Gamble, has just completed writing a comprehensive history of the Browns Blue…
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London Transport – AEC Regent III RT – OLD 564 – RT4777
Copyright Pete Davies London Transport1954AEC Regent III RT – RT8/2Weymann (Originally) Park Royal (Now) H56R Here we have two views of the same vehicle in the two liveries of London Transport. The view of it in red is at Heathrow Bus Station on 21 January 1976, where she is on the 140 to Mill Hill…
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London Transport – AEC Regent III RT – JXN 46 – RT1018
London Transport1948AEC Regent III RTWeymann H56R Here is a view of JXN 46, RT1081 1018 (see below) in full London Country NBC livery. She’s on parade in the Weymouth rally on 1 July 1979. She dates from 1948 and has a Weymann H56R body. At the time of the photograph, she was still in service…
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London Transport – AEC Regent III RT – JXC 194 – RT 1431
London Transport1949AEC Regent III RTCraven H30/26R After operational trials with the revolutionary new chassis during 1938, initially equipped with a 1932 vintage open staircase ST body, the RT prototype re-appeared in August 1939 with an advanced all metal body of very graceful appearance built by Chiswick. An order was placed for 150 of the modern…
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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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London Transport – AEC Regent II – HGC 225 – STL2692
London Transport1946AEC Regent IIWeymann H30/26R HGC 225 is an AEC Regent II with Weymann H56R body, and it dates from 1946. It wears Country Area green in this view, and the fleet number STL2692. Allowing for the London method of bus overhauls, how many chassis and bodies have worn this fleet number over the years?…
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London Transport – AEC Regent 1 – GJ 2098 – ST 922
Copyright Chris Hebbron London Transport1930AEC Regent 1Tilling or Dodson (H27/25RO) “John Whitaker was interested in Christopher Dodson bus bodies built for operators outside London and I mentioned that Tilling had purchased 30 Dodson-bodied AEC Regents for their Brighton operation. I’ve now found out that they were identical to the 191 AEC Regents they operated…
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London Transport – AEC Regent 1 – DGX 212 – STL 1684
Copyright Victor Brumby London Transport1936AEC Regent ILondon Transport (Chiswick) H56R A London furniture maker adopted an ex-London Regent for a mobile showroom. Going about its business on August 24th. 1957, DGX 212 – STL 1684 was brought to a halt by the overhanging awning of the Odeon cinema in Gold Street, Kettering, which broke its…
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London Transport – AEC Regent 1 – BXD 474 – STL 806
Copyright Victor Brumby London Transport1935AEC Regent 1London Transport (Chiswick) H56R Below is the note I wrote on the back of the above photograph. BXD 474, this yellow and blue STL (806) was seen in Kettering on March 10th. 1958. Driver Robert Carter advised that his company, Zenith Furniture, had this mobile showroom-converted AEC and two…
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Progressive Coaches (Cambridge) – AEC Regent 1 – DLU 116
Copyright Victor Brumby Progressive Coaches (Cambridge)1935AEC Regent 1London Transport (Chiswick) H26/30R I am coming to the end of my boyhood ex-London Transport (photographed) sightings now. I proffer this shot of ex-London Transports STL 2117 during the building of Stevenage New Town, when Mowlem Construction hired their workers’ transport from Progressive Motor Coaches of Cambridge. STL…