EFE announce Cravens RT bus (plus updates)

[hmrspaul]

16 hours ago, SRman said:

 

Not all that unusual. All of the RTs built up to a certain time had top box bodies, as did the non-standard versions from Cravens and Saunders Roe. Top box bodies tended to be disposed of first in the 1960s, including sometimes putting them on Leyland RTL chassis at overhaul, because the RTLs were destined to be sold off before the majority of the AECs. I could give chapter and verse on this, but it would take a lot longer ... such details fill up entire books on the RTs and on London Buses in general.

I always ask the (rhetorical) question, what other bus company would consider 120 buses as non-standard? 😁 There were 120 Cravens bodied RTs.

 

Thanks,. I don't have my bus spotter book anymore but IIRC RTs ran into several thousand. Annoyingly RMs appeared on the 117 route very early but we never got the RM on the 90 (1960-68). 

 

Paul 

Edited January 8 by hmrspaul

[Oldddudders]

A commentary on latter Saunders RTs.

 

http://www.countrybus.org/RT/RT3s.htm#top

 

[This valuable LT resource had been offline recently, which was frightening, so very relieved to find it alive and well!]