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Back at the garage, the young ladies in the fashionable attire were rather tired and emotional from what I recall.
This was one of the RTs used on our three bus tour back in 77. It was painted a lighter shade of green, not that you can tell here.
I shot this back in March of 2009 in downtown Sacramento, California. I'm not sure if the level of service is the same after the budge cuts of recent years. I suspect the location is on the west side of 7th Street near G Street, across from the Sheriff's Department.
RT 2177 on an Express working of route 212 from Muswell Hill Broadway to Finsbury Park whilst taking part in the Muswell Hill running day.
With its balding roof, RT 1798 (BK) departs Rainham, Abbey Wood Lane for Becontree Heath on the 87. Wednesday 13th September 1978. 4K-11.
When County Hall was more than a hotel. This one headed to France in 1977. Bought by a chap called Luc, perhaps?
Squaring the Circle, 2 of 4, per flickr's squared circle and squareFormat groups.
It was a heavy summer day on foot from Chelsea Market to the Village. I had been searching for a shot that showed the subway's age without it looking decrepit. RT NYC was 103 years old that year.
For a squaring the circle, I especially like that the walkway around this manhole cover was comprised of squared bits with edges rounded by wear.
Of al, the RT-family derivatives, the ones which deviated most from the standard were the 120 Cravens bodied RTs. One of only two that have survived into preservation, RT1431 is seen arriving at the 'RT 75' event at Ash Grove Garage on 12th April, having participated on a road run from Piccadilly Circus, mostly over roads which were formerly part of route 22.
Most of the RT family was bodied by Park Royal or Weymann to London Transport's standard designs. However during the late 1940s when production resumed past-war London Transport realised that chassis production was running ahead of what the bodybuilders could manage, and placed contracts with Saunders Engineering of Anglesey and Cravens of Sheffield.
Whereas Saunders took great trouble to manufacture their design as close to the Park Royal/Weymann standard as possible, Cravens appeared merely to graft an RT cab onto their own standard design! The most obvious difference is the number of window bays - there are five on the lower deck and seven on the upper as opposed to the normal four and six respectively - but there are numerous other differences in the detail.
RTs 1402-1521 appeared in both Central red and Country Area green during 1949 and 1950. As non-standard vehicles they were candidates for early withdrawal as passenger numbers fell and service cuts started to bite during the 1950s, and most were withdrawn during 1956. Most were sold to other operators outside London, for whom a brand-new RT would have been too expensive but a seven-year-old second-hand one represented an absolute bargain.
RT1431 is one of the two examples which has survived into preservation (the other being RT1499 which is preserved in Country Area green); both are now in the Heritage fleet of Ensignbus in Purfleet.
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'RT 75' is the first of the '2014 - Year of the Bus' celebrations, and marks the 75th anniversary of the entry into service of the first RT-types on route 22.
The event featured a number of runs by RT-family vehicles between Piccadilly Circus and Homerton, which was once part of the 22 route. Some buses also ran to and from Ash Grove Garage, where there was also a display of RT-family vehicles, including an ex-St Helens example which had come down all the way from the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum in Lathalmond, Fife.
RT 2146 negotiates the bend in Cranbrook Road just after the junction with Wellesley Road. It has just left the Ilford Station terminus of route 139 and is starting out for Dagenham (New Road). Note it has lost its AEC/LT radiator badge. The bus is being pursued by a Triumph 1300, a MkIII Cortina and a MkI Escort.
When I was in the sixth form I had a Friday evening job in that Tesco's, usually shifting stuff around the warehouse above the store.
1977/8.