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1947 AEC Regent III RT246

1947 AEC Regent III in Live and Let Die, Movie, 1973

Class: Bus, Double-deck — Model origin:

1947 AEC Regent III RT246

Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

Comments about this vehicle

Author	Message
dudley ◊ 2007-06-11 13:05	1947 (RT246)
G-MANN ◊ 2008-09-30 18:35	Bond and Solitaire (Jane Seymour) steal this bus and are chased by the San Monique police. Bond outwits them by doing a 180 degree spin (impressive feat for a double decker bus). Then he goes under a low bridge, slicing off the top deck, which the police car crashes into. -- Last edit: 2008-10-01 01:10:43
Trainboy12 ◊ 2009-11-23 19:44	Now its an AEC Regel!
Jonnie Comet ◊ 2011-10-09 09:15	Notice that when the top is sliced off by the bridge, there is no wreckage involving seats, of which there were like 32 up there. The movie staff had carefully cut the body with perforations in order to zip right off for the one and only take they could have to do this. I don't think the 180 spin would be too hard given that there really isn't any weight up there. It's not like it would tip over. What I couldn't believe is how anyone could do it (without the wet pavement the movie scene has) when the bus has so much weight in the front it'd be terrific understeer.
racersg ◊ 2012-04-10 02:08	When the James Bond meets the Night Bus.
dsl ◊ 2012-10-14 14:13	Jonnie Comet wrote when the top is sliced off by the bridge, there is no wreckage involving seats Also I'd expect lots of showers of window glass on impact. Main looks as if top windows removed, but thumbs after collision look as if they have window glass. -- Last edit: 2012-10-14 14:16:43
tore-40 ◊ 2020-07-04 10:05	Windows? Where we're going we don't need windows...
GodzillaFan54 ◊ 2024-10-21 04:12	Sadly, the reality is a bit different... https://youtu.be/24370gEz1Q4?t=180
San ◊ 2025-05-23 20:53	RT246 was delivered new to London Transport in 11/1947 buslistsontheweb wrote Chassis: O961073 Restoration: HLW233 Body Number: PR L95 Seating: H30/26R Engine: 9.6 itre Owner: London Transport Fleetnumber: RT246 Served London Transport for nearly 25 years before being retired in 1971/72 Flicker wrote RT246 was then repainted blue and shipped to Jamaica in September of 1972 for filming for it's scenes. Wikipedia wrote It had its top deck removed and remounted on rollers so it would slide off on impact with the low bridge. The top deck was bolted in position for all other filming. Maurice Patchett, a London Transport bus driving instructor drove RT246 during the stunts RT2512 top deck (and from what I gathered not the whole of RT2512) was also shipped to Jamaica, so that the crew had an spare top-deck to wreck if the first take didn't go as planned No records on what happened to RT246 post-fliming, and nobody has seen it since. Given the condition it was by the end of filming it was probably junked at an nearby yard in Jamaica and is probably all long gone by now.... -- Last edit: 2025-05-23 20:58:59

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