Tag: London Transport
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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…
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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…