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AEC Regent III RLH #RLH23
Details
| Name | AEC Regent III RLH (MCW) AEC Regent III/MCW Lowbridge (1950-1952) | |
| VIN | ||
| Build Number | ||
| Built | 1952 | |
| Scrapped | ||
| Owners | ||
| 1952 | 1967 | LT London |
| 1987 | Timebus St Albans | |
| Registration Numbers | ||
| Year Of Get | Year Of Remove | Registration Plate |
| 1952 | MXX 223 | |
| Vehicle Numbers | ||
| Year Of Get | Year Of Remove | Vehicle Number |
| 1952 | 1967 | RLH23 / LT London |
| 1987 | RLH23 / Timebus St Albans | |
| Other Information | ||
| Lowbridge `provincial RT`. | ||
Photos
26 june 2010 - London (UK) – St Paul’s Churchyard. Two classics – one built by Sir Christopher Wren and the other by AEC/Weymann. The RLH was a low height version of the AEC Regent bus and was used in small numbers in London where low bridges prevented the use of standard RT-type buses. This one was exported to Canada on withdrawal from LT service and has recently been brought back to UK by Timebus Travel, where a full restoration was carried out.
Author: dvigar
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26 june 2010 - London (UK) – St Paul’s Churchyard. A closer look at RLH23, which is here being used on wedding duties. Timebus Travel operates several restored London buses and is run by enthusiasts.
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26 june 2010 - London (UK) – Ludgate Hill. Inside the lower deck of RLH23 – a rather different style of seats to the standard RT-type bus, although covered in the same material. Note the low roof on the right side and notices warning passengers to ‘mind your head’.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
26 june 2010 - London (UK) – Ludgate Hill. Upstairs on an RLH, things are very different to a normal bus. This was the normal layout for a UK ‘lowbridge’ double decker, with a narrow gangway on the offside, sunk into the lower deck ceiling. Very tight and awkward when the bus was full of passengers!
Author: dvigar
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26 june 2010 - London (UK) – Ludgate Hill. A view from the front of the upper deck, showing the ‘four-abreast’ seats. If you were sitting on the inside, you were trapped there until the other three passengers got off, unless you could persuade them to get out of their seats and shuffle along the gangway so you could squeeze past. The conductor would pass your ticket across the line of passengers and you passed the fare back – all rather slow and awkward. Some UK bus companies had many lowbridge buses of this type – London had fewer.
Author: dvigar
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21 april 2013 - Brooklands, Surrey (GB) – London Bus Museum. The annual rally of London buses this year took place at the new Museum site. Amongst those buses attending was this immaculate RLH23, an AEC Regent of 1952 with a Willowbrook lowbridge body. London Transport operated 76 of these vehicles on routes where standard height double deck buses could not run. The ‘lowbridge’ layout involves a sunken gangway on the offside upstairs with long seats for four people – if you were unlucky enough to be sitting on the nearside, you maybe had to ask three people to move before you could get off! The offside downstairs was also very low, because of the upstairs gangway, so you had to take care not to crack your head when you got up to leave. Despite these drawbacks, these buses ran until the early 1970s.
Author: dvigar
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