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Learning to drive the hard way, in an RT, with an instructor yelling in your ear. It worked for thousands, "Chiswick Trained" was a badge of honour.
Piccadilly Bus Tours of Ottawa operated RT 4743 in July 1980. RT 4743 was an ex-London Transport RT built in 1954 with a Weyman body and fitted with a Park Royal body in 1971.
An RT has strayed on to the 35. Pictured at Brixton station. Probably in 1973. Notice the footbridge there used to be across the road here. Ugly, and awkward for pedestrians. People counted for little against cars in the 1970s.
Location: what the hell is "Ferndale, Lambeth"???
RT1 at the Chiswick Gala, 2/7/83. Due to the number of buses present they were unfortunately very close together so restricting photography.
Passing through Hornchurch High Street on route 193 is Seven KIngs based RT 3712 (AP), on Thursday 27th February 1975. RTs survived on this route for another nineteen months until conversion to RMs on 3rd October 1976. 2H-5.
Grimsby Corporation Transport 81, late 1946/47 RT-type AEC Regent III O961215, Roe H31/25R, JV9901.
Newark Showground, 29/5/22.
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Neil F.
Rather better than the Ikea picture of a battered RML in the same bus lane! Headed north in mid '77.
Unfinished dub by Town of RT crew. Check them out at www.representlondon.com
I can't seem to get my fill of the hummingbirds ... These were taken this afternoon in between rain showers in our garden - Andover, NJ
I think the number of people who saw off the RMs 26 years later was much greater, but the RT symbolised the real end of LT's supremacy in vehicle engineering, just in numbers.
Ensignbus is based in Thurrock, Essex. They operate local bus services, have an extensive historic fleet and also remanufacture and resell buses.
RT3232 (KYY 961) is a 1950 AEC RT bus that was fitted with a Weymann body. It was purchased by Ensignbus in December 1979.
Ensignbus RT3232 at the garage on Tuesday, September 24th, 2013.