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Leyland Titan PD2 
Ep. 2.05Class: Bus, Double-deck — Model origin: 
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◊ 2010-05-15 14:14 |
Doesn't look like an AEC radiator. Anyway, this is a studio backlot with a matte painting of Westminster in the background. |
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◊ 2010-05-15 15:12 |
I think it's a Leyland PD2, and I'm not sure it ever saw London - it's not an RTL. |
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◊ 2010-05-15 18:06 |
Count the windows, it looks like an early post war example of Leyland "Farington" standard coachwork on a PD2 Titan chassis. As you have observed, it ain't no AEC. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cessna152towser/2734470677/ -- Last edit: 2010-05-15 18:09:04 |
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◊ 2010-05-16 10:39 |
Definitely nothing like a London Transport bus. The inclusion of a gold fleetname AND the white LT roundel is overkill! |
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◊ 2010-05-16 11:40 |
Perhaps the bus had the gold signwriting already and the owner didn't allow it to be removed, so they just put a roundel on as well. .gif ":)") |
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◊ 2011-06-10 14:11 |
If this is meant to be 1960s or early 1970s, the Merc and background 911 are the Hollywood Time Travel editions. |
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◊ 2011-06-10 21:28 |
I'm pretty sure the setting was present day (1985). The PD2 was probably just the best stand-in for a Routemaster that the producers could find in Los Angeles. |
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◊ 2011-06-10 21:31 |
The Murder, She Wrote episodes set in Britain were always fun. Not always in a good way. The cars were always too old or flash to be realistic. |
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◊ 2011-06-10 21:42 |
The only modern European cars they could get were ones sold on the US market. It's more or less impossible to register a car that doesn't conform to US safety standards (unless it's at least twenty-five years old and so exempt as a classic car), and it's more or less impossible to make a car comply if it wasn't designed for the US in the first place. This is why a lot of American shows, for instance Alias, resort to using classic cars for scenes set abroad. |
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◊ 2011-06-10 21:46 |
 A two-edged sword, all these scenes, set in annother country. A bizarre amusement for an IMCDb-member, but annoying for a viewer, who is seriously interested in a good movie.Here I've a big fun with that , but when I'm recognizing such blunders (especially when it's caused by missing knowledge or -worse- indifference or slopiness) in a movie, I would like to enjoy, I'm becoming immediately pissed and swith the TV off  |
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◊ 2011-06-10 23:04 |
You can say that about all American shows when it comes to recreating a foreign country - and vice-versa when it comes to foreign shows/movies (though it leans towards the 'old' side in that case). -- Last edit: 2011-06-10 23:05:07 |
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