Tag: Park Royal
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Newcastle Corporation – AEC Regent V – 158 – 158 AVK
Newcastle Corporation1957AEC Regent V MD3RVPark Royal L30/28R In 1956 Newcastle took delivery of 20 AEC Regent V’s with Park Royal H34/28R bodies, they were XVK 137 to XVK 156 and were numbered 137/156. The following year another 20 arrived, registered 157 AVK – 176 AVK and numbered 157/176 – 167/176 were the same as the…
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Sheffield Corporation – AEC Regent V – 365 EWE – 1365
Copyright Ian Wild Sheffield Corporation1963AEC Regent V 2D2RAPark Royal H38/32F After several years of deliveries of rear engined double deckers, Sheffield bought batches of forward entrance for all three fleets in 1963 and 1964. This bus was from the first batch and is seen in May 1967 at the Oughtibridge terminus of service 18. Although…
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Maidstone & District – AEC Regent V – VKR 35 – 6735
Copyright John Stringer Maidstone & District Motor Services Ltd1956AEC Regent V MD3RVPark Royal L30/26RD During the mid to late 1950’s a number of BET operators seemed to switch their double deck allegiance to AEC Regent V’s. Though Maidstone & District had bought a number of AEC Regal single deckers before and just after the Second…
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Hants & Dorset – AEC Regent V – 975 CWL – 3475
Hants & Dorset Motor Services1958AEC Regent V LD3RAPark Royal H65R 975 CWL is an AEC Regent V of the LD3RA variety. She was new in 1958 and has a Park Royal body seating 65. New to City of Oxford as their 975, she is seen in the yard of the Hants & Dorset depot in…
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East Kent – AEC Regent V – MFN 946F
East Kent Road Car Company1967AEC Regent V 3D3RAPark Royal H40/32F This photograph, copyright of the ‘M & D and East Kent Bus Club’, shows East Kent Road Car Company MFN 946F in the guise of one of the holiday exhibition buses which toured northern towns in the 1960s to publicise the holiday resorts in Kent…
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Provincial – AEC Regent V – 972 CWL – 60
Provincial (Gosport & Fareham Omnibus Co)1957AEC Regent V LD3RAPark Royal H37/28R Taken at Hoeford depot on 30/03/69 having been recently transferred from City of Oxford where it had been No H972 this photo shows newly painted Provincial No 60 an LD3RA AEC Regent V with a Park Royal H37/28R body registration number 972 CWL delivered…
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Upminster & District – AEC Regent V – 220 CXK
Upminster & District1961AEC Regent V 2D2RAPark Royal H38/31F In 1961, London Transport bought a Regent V on behalf of BEA to test the practicality of using double deckers on the service between Cromwell Road Air Terminal and Heathrow. The vehicle had a Park Royal H38/17F body, the restricted seating figure arising from the adaptation of…
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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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Hull Corporation – AEC Regent III RT – BDJ 63 – 143
Kingston upon Hull Corporation Transport1950AEC Regent III RTPark Royal H30/26R KHCT had a large second hand batch of these RT types from 1962 to 1970 they were ex St. Helens Corporation, this bus was D63 in there fleet. There is a preserved St Helens RT type fleet no D67 and a good picture of it…
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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…