Tag: London Transport
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London Transport – AEC Regent I – AXM 693 – STL441
London Transport1934AEC Regent ILondon Transport H26/30R AXM 693 is an AEC Regent (Regent I in some listings but not in all of them) from 1934, new to London Transport with fleet number STL441. Her LPTB body has H56R seating layout and she now resides at Brooklands, following the relocation of the collection from Cobham. We…
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National Omnibus – AEC Regent I – GF 7217
Copyright V C Jones Copyright Surfleet Transport Photos Copyright J C Gilham National Omnibus/LGOC/London Transport1930AEC Regent IShort Bros. L26/24R In LGOC days, it competed with independents as much in the rural areas around London as in Central London. Two of the main contenders were, in the South, East Surrey, based in Reigate, and, in the…
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London Transport – AEC Regent Bluebird ST – APC 168 – ST1037
Photo: Copyright unknown LGOC/LGCS/LCBS1932AEC RegentLGOC H26/22R The Bluebird six-wheel LT was an impressive and attractive variant of the LT class, but the Bluebird ST was rare. ST1037 was one of the first 8 of a total of just 23 Bluebird STs which London General built for their expanding green Country Services. Initially allocated to Windsor…
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London Transport – AEC Regal IV – MXX 21 – RF 379
London TransportAEC Regal IVMCW B41F There were always a few places around London where red and green buses were seen together and this photo was taken at Uxbridge in 1974. Green RF 53 registration LYF 404 was a former Green Line vehicle, as shown by the twin headlights. Alongside is RF 379 registration MXX 21…
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London Transport – AEC Regal IV – MLL 971 – RF 334
London TransportAEC Regal IVMCW B41F Here is another of the Uxbridge allocated RF buses, seen in the summer sun of 1971, the year in which UX garage saw the welcome return of these stalwart performers, having lost them previously in 1962 in favour of RT double deckers. RF 334, MLL 971 stands at Heathrow Central…
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Hampson (Oswestry) – AEC Regal IV – LUC 213
Hampson of Oswestry1951AEC Regal IVMetro-Cammell B35F “Yes, Jim, she is an RF, but not as we know them,” as ‘Startrek’s’ Mr Spock might say. This AEC Regal IV of the normal RF specification has a Metropolitan Cammell B35F body and is seen in the livery of a later owner, Hampson’s of Oswestry, at Dunsfold on…
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London Transport – AEC Regal IV – UMP 227
London Transport1949AEC Regal IVPark Royal B40F I have submitted this vehicle under the London Transport heading as it is in ‘Country Area’ green and carries the London Transport fleetname. It is an AEC Regal IV with Park Royal B40F body, new as an AEC Demonstrator in 1949. Neither the Jenkinson list of 1978 nor the…
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London Transport – AEC Merlin – SMM 15F – XMB 15
London Transport Board1966AEC Merlin P2RStrachans B46D In the mid 1960s London Transport began moving away from its ageing bespoke designs – RT family/ RF/ RM family – and belatedly began investigating the standard offerings of the bus manufacturing industry. The ensuing saga became a sad, expensive story of incompetence, profligacy and waste, from the RC…
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London Transport – AEC 664T – CUL 260 – 260
London Transport1936AEC 664TMetro-Cammell H40/30R This representative of London’s once extensive trolleybus system is a London Transport class C2 AEC 664T (chassis number 168) with a Metro-Cammell H40/30R body. The 664T chassis design was a close relative of the six wheeled LT class Renown that the LPTB also operated in large numbers.CUL 260, fleet no. 260,…
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L. P. T. B. – AEC Regent – DLU 92 – STL 2093
London Passenger Transport Board1937AEC Regent O661London Transport Chiswick H30/26 The STL – the letters stand, rather confusingly, for “Short T Long” – was introduced into London area service firstly by Thomas Tilling in October 1932 and then by the London General Omnibus Company in January 1933. The STL Regent then became the standard double decker…