PRESERVED BUSES & COACHES
| FLEET No | RT 1574 |
| REG | KLB 662 |
| MAKE | AEC |
| MODEL | RT |
| YEAR | 1949 |
| BODY | Park Royal Vehicles |
| OWNER | Phil and Gareth Blair of Hampshire |
| HISTORY | The RT standard London
Transport bus was introduced in 1946. There had been a small number
built to a slightly different design from 1939, but the war stopped
production. The early RTs had a route number box on the roof, but
this was replaced by a three-piece display between the front windows for
the vast majority of RTs. The chassis was an AEC Regent III, hence
the code RT (Regent Three). Bodies were mostly built by Park Royal
and Weymann, but some were supplied by Craven (120) and Saunders
(300). They had 56 seats, 26 lower, 30 upper.
RT 1574 entered service in 1949 on route 75 from Catford garage. She worked from many garages across London until withdrawn by LT in 1976. She was bought for preservation by D. Bentley of Halifax in 1976, and remained in Yorkshire until 2007. In that year she was purchased by Phil and Gareth Blair of Hampshire, and is now seen on rallies in the south. |
| Above photos taken at: | Cobham London Bus Museum Spring Gathering at Dunsfold Aerodrome, Surrey. |
| Taken: | 10th April 2011 |
Photographs © Mike Smith 2011
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