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LDV Convoy #3753007
18 sierpnia 2008 - Redhill, UK - Redstone Manor: This is a Royal Mail Post Bus that suddenly appeared outside my house one morning. These vehicles were used to collect and deliver post in country areas with no conventional bus service. The Post Bus would follow a fixed route around the area once or twice a day, allowing the postman to carry out his normal duties, but passengers were also carried, normally between isolated villages and the local town. So, for little extra cost, a public bus reached places that would otherwise never have one. Post Buses were quite common in rural parts of Scotland and Wales, but I think they have now all died out, victims of cost cutting.
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Commer Shooting Brake #EC 634
2 maja 2010 - Redhill, UK - Brighton Road: The fabulous Commer Cars estate bus. Built in 1909 for a wealthy family, it has somehow survived to the present day and still runs regularly down to Brighton on the annual rally. Note the chain drive to the back wheels. There is probably room for this in my garage.....I just need to win the Euro Millions lottery first!
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Leyland Titan PD1 #106
2 maja 2010 - Redhill, UK - Brighton Road: Not pictured on TWB before is neither this bus nor the operator - Southport Corporation Transport was a fairly large bus operator (20 routes) in North West England and this Leyland PD2/3 double decker was new to them in 1950. In 1974, Southport Corporation was absorbed into the newly-formed Merseyside PTE and ceased to exist.
AEC Regal IV / Burlingham Seagull #3
2 maja 2010 - Redhill, UK - Brighton Road: Driving to Brighton during the 2010 commercial vehicle rally is this nice AEC Regal 4 coach with a 41-seat Burlingham Seagull body, new to Scotts Grey coaches in 1952. This is the identical chassis to the huge London Transport RF class, but looks very different when fitted with this full-front body and a central entrance.
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Bedford OB #EAJ 679
2 maja 2010 - Redhill, UK - Brighton Road: Another Bedford OB coach, only slightly different from the one shown in my last photograph, this time with a Plaxton body. I have no idea of its history, except that it is named `Charlie`. These vehicles have always been a popular choice for preservationists, as many still have their original petrol engine and often have beautiful Art Deco interiors - just small enough for one person to restore, garage and repair.
Bedford OB #LDF 833
2 maja 2010 - Redhill, UK - Princess Way: The Bedford OB was once a common sight, particularly with the Duple Vista body, as shown here. These little coaches were widespread in the 1940 and 1950s, both as buses in rural areas and for coach excursions, which were extremely popular before private car ownership became more widespread. I don`t know the history of this particular one, except that it was new to Bowles Coaches and was immortalised as a 1:24 scale model
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Leyland Titan PD2 #19992
2 maja 2010 - Redhill, UK - Brighton Road: Another open top bus heading for the south coast during the 2010 commercial vehicle rally. This Leyland PD/2 was made by the exact same chassis and body builder as the Southdown `Queen Mary` bus shown in my last photo, but couldn`t look more different, being a more traditional rear-entrance double decker. New to City of Portsmouth Transport, it was converted to open top at some point and latterly served with Stagecoach on sea front services around Torquay in Devon as a member of their heritage fleet. It has just been sold to a preservationist
Leyland Royal Tiger / Plaxton Venturer #NKH 46
2 maja 2010 - Redhill, UK - Brighton Road: This pretty Plaxton-bodied Leyland Royal Tiger coach was new to Bluebird Garages of Hull, East Yorkshire, in 1952. It has changed ownership several times since entering preservation in 1978.
Leyland Atlantean / East Lancs #LYF 307 D
2 maja 2010 - Redhill, UK - Brighton Road: The preserved 1966 BOAC shuttle coach on its way to Brighton. This was one of fifteen Leyland Atlanteans specially built with bodies by Roe Coachworks for transporting passengers from the West London Air Terminal to Heathrow Airport. There were just 16 high quality seats downstairs and 18 upstairs, the remaining space being taken up by luggage space and a toilet. In these days, air passengers were afforded every luxury and could take as much baggage as they wished. BOAC was one of two UK national airlines, the other being British European Airways, which only served short haul destinations - BOAC went everywhere else.
Dennis Ace #3650
2 maja 2010 - Redhill, UK - Princess Way: This 1934 Dennis Ace is a regular performer at rallies in the South of England, having previously worked for the Southern National bus company. The roof boards invite you to send parcels by bus - this was once a common service even in cities, but died out with one person operation, as the driver can`t easily leave the cab. You would wait for a convenient bus to come along, hand your parcel to the conductor and pay a few pence for a special `parcels` ticket. The conductor would then either pass the parcel on to someone meeting the bus, or hand it in to a shop along the route for later collection.
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AEC Regent III RT #RT1
2 maja 2010 - Redhill, UK - Brighton Road: The celebrated prototype of the London RT-class, #RT1, runs through on its way to Brighton for the annual rally of commercial vehicles. This bus isn`t quite what it seems, as London Transport policy was to separate bus bodies and chassis on overhaul, so the fleet number, body and chassis numbers all got mixed up every time a bus passed through the central workshops. Although RT1 was kept separate (because it had many non-standard features) it still changed identity several times and enthusiasts will happily spend hours arguing the true fleet number of the bus we now call "RT1"
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Leyland Lioness LTB1 / Burlingham #8
2 maja 2010 - Redhill, UK - Brighton Road: The preserved Leyland Lioness of 1929 heads for Brighton on a very wet day - I hope that the canvas roof doesn`t leak! At one time used in the Channel Islands, this bus was hidden away inside a tunnel for five years during the German war occupation and was preserved in the late 1950s, so has been a museum piece longer than it actually ran in service. London Transport inherited a single one of these in 1930 and used it as a country area bus for several years before selling it.
Bedford WLB / Davies #2
2 maja 2010 - Redhill, UK - Brighton Road: It looks cosy inside this nice Bedford WLB bus of 1932 seen making its way to Brighton on a very wet day. This bus was new to an operator in Wales, Williams of Blaina, and laid aside for many years until rescued for preservation in the 1970s. There were many small operators in rural Wales, sometimes with only one bus, just enough to provide a service from a small village into the nearest town on market day.
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AEC Regal IV RF #RF433
2 maja 2010 - Redhill, UK - Brighton Road: Running to Brighton on a very wet May holiday in 2010 is this member of the very large RF class of London single deckers. Built in 1953, this particular example is one of many in preservation, but is only one of two still surviving that never had doors, being completely open at the front. This was because the Metropolitan Police in London objected to a door being fitted as being unsafe (not nearly as unsafe as not having one at all, I think!) Anyway, like many Central area RFs, it operated like this throughout its long career.
AEC Renown LT #LT165
2 maja 2010 - Redhill, UK - Princess Way: Just passing Redhill railway station during the 2010 London - Brighton commercial vehicles rally is this lovely 1930 AEC Renown LT3 double-deck bus with Park Royal bodywork, normally living in the London Transport Museum at Covent Garden and very rarely allowed out on the road, as it is rather fragile. The LT-class bus was an important milestone in the development of a standard London bus, which culminated in the famous RT and RM types. This bus shows the wartime blast netting applied to the windows to protect them from exploding bombs. The little Dennis alongside in the station car park is the more normal bus these days!
Leyland Tiger TS4 #YG 7831
7 maja 2018 - An impressive Leyland Tiger of Todmorden Corporation, which was a local bus operator in Lancashire. These were quite advanced buses for their time, but were almost immediately made obsolete by the first rear-engined and underfloor-engined machines, which were introduced just a year or so later.
Autor: dvigar
Miejsce: Redhill (South East England)
| Właściciel: Private London | Organizator: Todmorden Corporation
Leyland Tiger PS1 TD #TD95
7 maja 2018 - The TD Class single deck bus on its way from London to Brighton in this year`s annual celebration run. This bus has been owned by the London Bus Preservation Trust for some years and is normally displayed in their Brooklands museum. Note the position of the conductor - this was a common place for them to stand in nice weather and probably speeded up the switch to one-person operation, as so many conductors were lost when they fell out onto the road.
Leyland Tiger PS1 TD #AA 8330
7 maja 2018 - Is the year 1915 early enough for you? This vehicle is an early FIAT Model 2B with a 14-seat body, built as a station bus to carry railway passengers. Despite its great age, it has a four-speed gearbox. After being rescued for preservation in 1962, it was part of the Banfield Collection of old vehicles - many of them very important survivors (Michael Banfield was wealthy and able to collect several fine buses). After Michael died, it was auctioned in 2014 and sold for just GBP27,600 (EUR 30,000) - Very cheap, really - if I had the chance, I would gladly have paid that amount to buy it for myself.
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TS3A #XL 1204
7 maja 2018 - A unique survivor from the early days of bus transport. As its name suggests, this Tilling-Stevens machine uses a petrol engine to power an electric motor, which in turn drives the road wheels. The driver`s controls are similar to those of a tram and the bus was designed to make it easy for tram drivers to master - they were very popular in the 1920s and 1930s. This bus was rescued from a scrapyard in 1971 and took nearly 30 years to fully restore. In 2014, it was sold at auction for GBP214,000 (yes, well over one quarter of a million Euros!)
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AEC Routemaster #CUV 284 C
7 maja 2018 - I don`t believe that I have shown you this one before - a single-deck Routemaster! After the roof was badly damaged in an accident, it was sold to a private group from SE London, who converted it into a fully-fitted travelling workshop - very nice inside. 
T31 #UU 6646
7 maja 2018 - The lovely old 1929 AEC T-type of the London General company, which was the main constituent of London Transport a couple of years later. AEC supplied most London buses in the 1920s and 1930s. This one has an open rear platform (no Health and Safety in those days) and a petrol engine.
AEC Q / BRC&W #CGJ 188
7 maja 2018 - Well, I`m very pleased to be back after several years away from TWB because of health problems (so please let me take a few pictures to learn the rules again). To begin, this is the 2018 London to Brighton commercial vehicles run. Here is the newly restored London Transport Q-type bus of 1935, which I last photographed in red - now, as you see, it has been repainted into Green Line green livery and has gained a radiator grille on the front, which does not do much for its appearance. However, these were among the first underfloor-engined buses ever made and suffered from a lack of cooling - not so critical, perhaps on short city routes with many stops, but obviously a problem on longer runs.
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Bristol LL #1218
5 maja 2013 - Redhill, Surrey (UK) - Brighton Road. This bus was built in 1948 with a body by Beadle, but was lengthened and rebodied with a body from Eastern Coachworks in 1958. A BET company, Southern National were only permitted to buy buses from Bristol/ECW, so their fleet was quite standardised by this time. The bus remained in service until 1970 and was then used elsewhere until 1988, when it was preserved in its original colours.
Leyland Titan PD2 #4031
5 maja 2013 - Redhill, Surrey (UK) - Brighton Road. The huge Midland Red bus company (also known as the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company, or BMMO) operated throughout the English Midlands and built lots of its own buses to very advanced designs in its own workshops. This particular bus wasn’t home made, however, but came ready-built from Leyland, although to a BMMO design – much as AEC built the LT-designed Routemaster buses for London.
AEC Regent III/Park Royal #RT1702
5 maja 2013 - Redhill, Surrey (UK) - Brighton Road. Lots of ex-London Transport RT buses are preserved, but this one has a special claim to fame, as it travelled to Europe for a trade visit when new, visiting Scandinavia and the Low Countries for three months. It was withdrawn from normal service in 1972 and has been a regular rally performer for a number of years.
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Bedford CFL350 / Plaxton Mini Supreme #CNR 274T
5 maja 2013 - Redhill, Surrey (GB) – Brighton Road. A delightful 17-seat Bedford coach with Plaxton bodywork – just the thing to keep in your bedroom! This little jewel of a bus must surely be one of the smallest in preservation and is just like a big coach in miniature. It was supplied new to a company in Nottinghamshire and was later used in Devon, but was offered for sale in 2011 and I’m not sure who owns it now.
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Leyland G7 / Short Brothers #135
5 maja 2013 - Redhill, Surrey (GB) – Brighton Road. Another ex-Southdown bus, this time from 1922. The Leyland G& chassis was quite popular in the 1920s and this one served with Southdown until 1934, when it was sold to Provincial, another bus company in southern England and was set aside for preservation in 1946, making this one of the earliest preserved buses in the country. Believe it or not, it is now owned by Stagecoach!
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NS Type #NS1995
5 maja 2013 - Redhill, Surrey (GB) - Brighton Road. The annual Historic Commercial Vehicle Society (HCVS) rally from London to Brighton always produces some interesting buses. This London General NS-type double deck was the first London bus type with a half cab layout and ran successfully for many years. This design was the forerunner of many subsequent London buses, up to the Routemaster of the 1950s and the introduction of one person operation. This bus normally lives in the London Transport Museum at Covent Garden and (like me) doesn’t get out very much.
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