Tag: London Transport
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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…
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London Transport – AEC Regent III RT – NLE 826 – RT3719
Copyright Victor Brumby London Transport1953 (registration date)AEC Regent III RT – RT8/2Weymann H30/26R Two weeks ago my contribution for the ex London Transport STL2117 was posted on this site, the shot was taken in April 1958. At about the same time that shot was taken, spiffing new RTs were coming on stream, and here is…
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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…