Tag: London Transport
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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…