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Nineteen-seventies enterprise or folly? RT 4599 converted in 1978 with 'vintage' front and open rear staircase for London touring by the Vintage Bus Company, was one of several vehicles thus rebuilt. Though hardly likely to fool the purists, it no doubt appeared older than it really was to tourists from overseas. It is pictured here in Greenwich during June 1980.
Here we have a cab view of the controls the operator would use to operate RT 18.
The two centre handles control the braking, while the smaller joystick on the right with the red button on it (horn) controls the acceleration of the train.
RT 1 (EYK 396) at Holborn, opposite former Prudential Assurance building.
This bus carries the first RT body, built in 1939. The original chassis was broken up for spares in 1945, and the body was later placed on a post-war chassis, and ended up in use as a mechanical instruction unit.
It was rescued and restored, resuming the identity of RT 1, in time for the 1979 celebrations of the last RTs running in regular passenger service.
Photographed in typical Surrey countryside, RT 4747 (RG) is crossing Dorking Road in Tadworth on the 406. Monday 25th June 1973. G-2.
Ten years forward from the previous view sees RT 4613 deroofed and now used for tourist duties in London, seen at Trafalgar Square on Friday 18th April 1986. 75-13.
RT604 in Dorking, September 2000. The bus is an AEC Regent III with Weymann body and was new in 1948.
Route 228 was replaced between Surrey Docks and Eltham by alterations to the 108 group in October 1968, thus reverting to its original route, Eltham to Chislehurst. RT 3283 (SP) stops at Frognal Corner, Sidcup on Thursday 18th April 1974.RT operation on route 228 ceased on 21st May 1977 when RMs replaced them. N-1.