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AEC Regent III RT 
Class: Bus, Double-deck — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2009-06-26 13:16 |
![[Image: qu21.178.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is241/qu21.178.jpg) |
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◊ 2009-06-26 13:25 |
AEC Routemaster my guess (isn't it the usual British bus?) |
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◊ 2009-06-26 13:28 |
Yes, but this looks like an older model, so maybe a Regent? |
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◊ 2009-06-26 14:53 |
The Routemaster may be the usual recent double deck London bus, but is far from being the usual British bus. There were many Leyland, Guy, Bristol and Daimler plus other lesser quantities of double deck buses like Albion Thornycroft and Crossley. After WW2 Birmingham, about the biggest bus fleet in the country outside London, tried 15 AECs of the RT type, and bought no more AECs at all after that, its huge fleet being mainly Guy, Daimler and Leyland, plus a tranche of Crossleys. Manchester thought equally little of AECs. The Midland Red, about the largest non municipal bus company before the government ruined it, had a small number of AEC Regents after WW2, because it mainly constructed its own vehicles, (called SOS before the war and BMMO after) but no Routemasters at all, ever. So if you see a film made outside London, withe very few exceptions, you won't see any Rms. The bus in the picture is almost certainly an AEC Regent 3 Type RT, which was the predecessor of the Rm and made in greater quantities, mainly in the late 1940s. Leyland also made some very similar buses of classes RTL and RTW which can only be distinguished from the RT if you can see the radiator, so there is an outside chance that this bus could be a Leyland. And then there are all the single deckers............... And we won't even think about all the Volvos and such that have been imported since the British motor industry fell apart. -- Last edit: 2009-06-27 10:36:02 |
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◊ 2009-06-26 15:59 |
Same exact movie footage as here..... /vehicle_112125-AEC-RT.html Columbo: Dagger of the Mind 1972 |
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