 London Transport RT 1594 seen at Chertsey Station on 19th June 2005 whilst operating on one of Cobham Bus Museum's 1950s running days. The AEC Regent III RT was a variant of AEC Regent double-decker bus which was produced jointly between AEC and London Transport. It was a popular bus used in and around London during the 1950s. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 365 KB) Summary Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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A London AEC Routemaster, RML 2473 (JJD 473D), on route 7 approaching Ladbroke Grove tube station in April 2002. ...
AEC was a United Kingdom based bus manufacturer which built buses from 1912 until 1979. ...
Founded in 1933 by an act of Parliament under Transport Minister Herbert Stanley Morrison, The London Passenger Transport Board generally known London Transport was A public authority appointed under act of Parliament, charged with responsibility for providing an adequate and properly co-ordinated system of passenger transport (Buses including Green...
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The prototype
The prototype (London Transport RT 1) was built in 1938 with AECs 8.8-litre engine (a stop gap measure until the new 9.6-litre was available) and air operated pre-selective gearbox. The air compressor being bought from Bosch, this was to cause headaches at AEC in the following months. Somewhat surprising, and a choice which can only be described as deliberately misleading, was the decision to place the prototype in service disguised as an old vehicle. It carried a secondhand open-staircase body previously carried on Leyland Titan TD 118. RT 1 entered service in November 1938 as ST 1140 even though it was nothing like a standard ST vehicle. It continued in service until February 1939, apparently without attracting the attention of the technical press. It would be difficult to imagine the same sort of success today, as it carried the then new registration number EYK396 giving a good clue to its age. The Leyland Titan is a type of double decker bus used in the United Kingdom. ...
Whilst the chassis was on trial a new body was constructed at Chiswick (London Transport's works). Its four bay body resembled that of the conventional Roe body exhibited at the 1937 Commercial Motor Show, though the overall impression of modern design and the features included marked a big step forward. No-one could have foreseen that it would be another 40 years before the last RT-type bus were retired by London Transport.
Pre-war production vehicles London Transport ordered 150 chassis which were in production when the war broke out in September 1939. Most arrived at London Transport by the end of 1941 and RT 151 (the last pre-war example) didn't reach London Transport until January 1942. The only other RT-type chassis constructed before the end of the war was destined for Glasgow, originally intended to be an exhibit at the 1939 Commercial Motor show, cancelled due to the outbreak of war. It differed from the pre-war London examples in having a Weymann body however the cab area was very similar to the London vehicles. Combatants Allies: • Poland, • UK & Commonwealth, • France, • Soviet Union, • USA, • China, ...and others Axis: • Germany, • Italy, • Japan, ...and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total: 50 million Full list Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total: 12 million Full list World War II, also, The...
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Post-war production vehicles
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