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AEC Regal IV RF #RF433
2 may 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 Regal IV RF #RF600
13 april 2014 - Cobham, UK - Brooklands: An example of the large RF class of single deck buses introduced in London in the early 1950s to replace just about all the odds and ends from the 1930s which were non-standard and life expired. The RF came in three main types - the Central London (red) version (which to begin with had no door but just a rather scary open front entrance)and two green variants, normal Country bus and longer distance Green Line coach, with better seats and higher speed gears.
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AEC Regal IV RF #RF395
1 january 2015 - London, Pall Mall.
AEC Regal IV RF #RF401
12 december 2010 - London (Bromley), Anerley Hill. Owing to some sort of anniversary of route 227, local bus enthusiasts hired out this sweet little thing which is seen here struggling up a 10% incline.
AEC Regal IV/Park Royal HDC37C BEA Airport Coach #MLL 753
26 may 2011 - Opole, zajezdnia MZK. Kiepskie ale za to cenne. Dla JP, bo się pytał co to jest. W sumie dużo nie wiem, mechanicy go robią jak mają trochę wolnego, już od 4 lat.
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AEC Regal IV RF #RF366
10 april 2011 - Dunsfold, Surrey. The 2011 Cobham show was a celebration of sixty years of the London RF bus, which was shown here in several variants. The RF was built to London Transport requirements and survived in service until 1979. This is the original London Central Buses variant, built with NO DOOR at the insistence of the Metropolitan Police (who controlled such things). All RF buses soon had doors fitted.
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AEC Regal IV/MCCW #RF269
11 april 2010 - Cobham, Surrey (UK). Green Line was the London Transport express coach operation and consisted of about 25 routes into and across London from the surrounding towns. In the 1960s and 1960s, all buses were these RF type, fitted with platform doors and high speed gears. Huge numbers of people travelled by Green Line in those days, of course, because very few had their own cars, but the network closed down because of falling passenger numbers in the 1980s.
AEC Regal IV/MCCW #RF366
11 april 2010 - Cobham, Surrey (UK). London Transport bought a large number of these underfloor engine, single deck buses in the early 1950s and they had very long lives, many remaining in ‘front line’ service for over 20 years. This is a typical Central Area bus – note that it has no doors, which were only fitted some years later, when they were adapted for one-man operation.
AEC Regal IV/Park Royal HDC37C BEA Airport Coach #B-042558
26 may 2008 - Opole, zajezdnia MZK przy ul. Luboszyckiej. Zdjęcie kiepskie, ale wrzucam z racji, że to taki egzotyk.
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AEC Regal IV/Park Royal HDC37C BEA Airport Coach #B-042558
26 may 2008 - Opole, zajezdnia MZK przy ul. Luboszyckiej. W zasadzie widok autobusu w hali zajezdni nie powinien szokować, ale jak to zobaczyłem... Udało się ustalić model, a także znaleźć zdjęcie tego egzemplarza sprzed 11 lat.
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AEC Regal IV RF #RF395
3 may 2009 - Redhill (UK) – Brighton Road - HCVS Rally. One of the many London single deck RF class to be preserved. This one is in original condition with no door – the first Central Area RFs were built like this and a door wasn’t added until some years later. This never seemed a very safe arrangement to me. The conductor is riding on the bottom step, but being careful to hold on very tight!
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AEC Regal IV/Metro-Cammell #MLL 740
5 april 2009 - Cobham (UK) – bus museum. Compare this bus with http://www.phototrans.eu/14,315545,0.html - it’s an identical London RF-type Regal IV, but with a very different body. London Transport operated a fleet of 65 of these airport coaches on behalf of British European Airlines between Heathrow and Central London in the 1950s and 1960s. They are an unusual one-and-a-half-deck layout, with space beneath the raised rear seats for passengers’ baggage. They didn’t have LT fleet numbers. They were replaced in the mid-1960s by front-entrance Routemasters pulling separate baggage trailers – another interesting operation.
AEC Regal IV RF #RF667
5 april 2009 - Cobham (UK). A green country area RF. These buses also operated the Green Line express network across London for many years, but many were later downgraded to normal bus work and lost their distinctive Green Line livery.
AEC Regal IV RF #RF486
5 april 2009 - Cobham (UK). The standard single deck London bus of the 1950s and 1960s was the RF class, an AEC Regal built specially for London. The early ones didn’t have any entrance doors, but these were fitted later. Because of the London Transport overhaul system, this bus has actually had three different chassis, four different fleet numbers and four different registration numbers!
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AEC Regal IV RF #RF319
13 june 1999 - Southsea Common. 1999 Vintage Vehicle Rally.
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AEC Regal IV / MCW #LYF 399
16 september 2007 - Duxford, showbus.
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