Advertising Last completed movie pages 1962 AEC Regent V Park Royal 'Highbridge' Ep. 2.04Class: Bus, Double-deck — Model origin: 
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◊ 2021-01-29 20:31 |
AEC Bridgemaster? or Renown? -- Last edit: 2021-01-29 20:33:01 |
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◊ 2021-01-29 22:03 |
It’s got that squashed look. |
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◊ 2021-01-29 23:00 |
It looks like an AEC Renown (Bridgemasters had the entrance door set slightly further aft with had a strange little window ahead of it and a short bay behind). However, it ought to be possible to identify the vehicle - there weren't that many Renowns to start with let alone in 2019, and I can't find any candidates with this style of destination display. |
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◊ 2021-01-30 22:26 |
I recognised the outline of this one as soon as I saw it, then had to go look up which one of the batch it is. RFO361 was new as 241AJB, an AEC Regent V with Park Royal body, one of a batch used as staff buses by the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) at Harwell. These buses were part of my childhood, as were the AEC Bridgemasters and Renowns of City of Oxford Motor Services. You can see it's a highbridge bus, whereas the Bridgemaster and Renown were both lowheight designs. (I know Nottingham had some Renowns with highbridge bodies, but they were exceptional). THe body design was also used on some East Kent Regent Vs. |
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◊ 2021-01-30 22:28 |
Found a picture of it with its last owner: https://www.flickriver.com/photos/45726467@N02/4381838294/ |
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◊ 2021-01-30 22:41 |
I don't have a photograph of 241, but for comparison here's 240AJB at Rich's Sidings in Didcot in AERE livery:![[Image: aere240ajb.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/306/aere240ajb.jpg) |
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◊ 2021-02-03 20:19 |
Stupid question, but why separate series of Routemaster and Bridgemaster/Renown were manufactured at the same time? Wikipedia does not help much with specifications here. |
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◊ 2021-02-03 21:07 |
The Routemaster was a standardised design built specifically for use in London, in large quantity, although a few have escaped elsewhere. London Transport, as it was known then had far more than the usual input to the design, for instance specifying larger engines and preselective transmissions. They also took the buses out of service at regular intervals for complete refurbishment at their Aldenham rebuild works. Later, variants like the Coach and the Long appeared, again with specific uses in mind. Bridgemaster and Renown were built for the traditionally provincial (although I hate the word) bus operators, who would have bodies built on the AEC chassis by their favoured coachworks, in smaller quantities, and were different enough in detail to be worth the effort. I now await a chorus of howls that I have got it wrong/missed a bit out/taken a guess. If you want to find out more about London buses take a look at Ian’s Bus Stop. -- Last edit: 2021-02-04 10:27:35 |
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