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1950 AEC Regent III RLH8 Weymann 
Class: Bus, Double-deck — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2006-11-19 18:34 |
AEC??? |
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◊ 2006-11-20 07:48 |
AEC RT |
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◊ 2006-11-21 22:51 |
It's an AEC Regent III, but not an RT. It has a Weymann body, similar to the RLH class, but this has a highbridge body. A bit of film producer's licence has been deployed here as the LT livery is not genuine. |
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◊ 2006-11-21 23:07 |
What's the difference between Highbridge and Lowbridge ? Overall height ? |
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◊ 2006-12-29 00:51 |
Difference between highbridge and lowbridge layout: standard height of a UK double decker = around 14 foot 6 inches. Go upstairs on a bus like this and you stand in a centre gangway with the seats in pairs either side of you. That's 'highbridge' To get a bus under low bridges you have to build it lower. So a 'lowbridge' double decker has a sunken gangway at the side and four seats across - and a lower ceiling. The conductor wold have to lean across to take fares, of course. If you're downstairs the sunken gangway affects the headroom on one side of the downstairs saloon as well. Most London buses have been built to the highbridge standard, but there was a lowbridge equivalent of the RT, designated RLH. This was a Weymann-bodied AEC Regent III such as was used in many towns outside London, whereas the RT although based on the Regent III was built to London specifications. Next: difference between lowbridge and lowheight: in the 1950s designs started appearing modified to allow a normal centre gangway arrangement upstairs but to a low overall height - this is 'lowheight', typically 13 foot 8 inches high. The best example of this is the Bristol Lodekka (low decker!), although AEC built the Bridgemaster and Renown, Albion built the Lowlander, Dennis built their own version of the Lodekka called the Loline, and so on. Later buses from the Daimler Fleetline and Bristol VRT onward were built to highbridge or lowheight specification. There were even Leyland Atlanteans built with a hybrid layout upstairs to keep the height down, with a 'lowheight' centre gangway at the front and a 'lowbridge' style side gangway at the back over the engine! To complicate things further, City of Oxford buses had a particularly awkward bridge by the Railway Station to pass under. For many years lowbridge buses did the job, but in later years the usual 13 foot 8 inch lowheight buses couldn't get under the bridge, and instead 13 foot 5 inch high lowheight buses were used. As a result 13 foot 8 high buses were classified in the Oxford fleet not as lowheight but highbridge and numbered in a different sequence! History is repeating itself now, as they have a fleet of lowheight Dennis Tridents, but are taking delivery of a number of highbridge Tridents which won't be able to pass under the Railway Bridge - they are being numbered separately again. |
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◊ 2009-01-15 23:34 |
The RLH Information Page identifies this as RLH8 (originally KYY508) and suggests it's the only RLH to have carried the London Transport roundel logo. I think the angle it's shot from gives a distorted impression of its height. |
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