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TF-AEC - Boeing B-707-338C - ZAS Airline of Egypt
(leased from Air Supply Corp.)
at Maastricht Beek Airport (MST) in 1986
c/n 19622 - built in 1967 for QANTAS -
leased to ZAS from 02/1986 -
re-reg. SU-DAE in 04/1986 -
operated until 08/1988 -
to Grumman Aerospace for E-8 conversion -
currently operated by the USAF as 92-3289
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
This classic 1966 London Transport red bus – AEC Routemaster JJD478D, fleet number RML2478 – was ferrying heritage passengers between the Gloucestershire Warwickshire heritage steam railway’s station at Broadway and the village centre on 15th July 2023.
First Registered in 1972 ...Seen in Hulls East Park before taking part in the Hull to Bridlington East Coast Run ..
AEC Merlin MB 641taking part in the the Potters Bar Garage open day approaching Clare Hall Hospital on route 242
Vehicle: AEC Mammoth.
Date of first registration: 1st December 1963.
Registration region: London.
Date taken: 7th January 2020.
Album: Street Spots
This classic 1966 London Transport red bus – AEC Routemaster JJD478D, fleet number RML2478 – was ferrying heritage passengers between the Gloucestershire Warwickshire heritage steam railway’s station at Broadway and the village centre on 15th July 2023.
Aspden's foreman fitter had worked for many years at Ribblesdale Batty Holt in Blackburn, and was an AEC fanatic.
Eventually, he managed to persuade Jack Aspden to buy a Reliance as his first heavyweight coach - just in time for them to go out of production!
It was bought for a new holiday venture which involved ferrying people on a relaxed 3 day journey to Salou, leaving them at their apartments for a week and returning with last week's passengers.
The idea was that the whole fortnight would be rather more relaxed than the double-manned 24 hour dashes that some operators provided at that time.
In truth, the idea probably wasn't a stunning commercial success, but the 12m Reliance, with toilet and nicely-spaced reclining seats (40, I think), was well on top of the job.
I photographed it on a French service area in Autumn 1979, whilst en route to Salou empty to collect the passengers from the last trip of the season. I was the unpaid courier for the trip!
Thumbing through the old 1970's Northern Counties book this morning I came across a picture of one of the Nottingham City Transport AEC Swifts. These buses attracted my interest from the day I became aware of their existence. I can remember a couple of efforts at sketching them as a teenager too.
Northern Counties were definitely on the ball with their double deck designs and I particularly liked their offerings on early Fleetlines, but they seemed to get into a tizzy when it came to single deckers. The body on these Swifts was quite like nothing else, but they did have a not to Nottingham's then current styling ideas. I just make the latter as an observation rather than a compliment. The result was quite a massive looking single deck bus.
Time tells us that NCT didn't really get on with their Swifts and that they were sold on to another AEC loving municipal, Grimsby Cleethorpes Transort.
The original of this image was of course black & white. The resultant colourisation isn't brilliant, but in my defence, the available image scan was pretty poor too.
WELLAND STEAM & VINTAGE RALLY 2024
AEC MATADOR
Reg: YSV 399
VLT 66
BREAKDOWN TENDER
WLT 308
AEC ROUTEMASTER
The preserved Birmingham City Transport AEC Matador sits in the sunshine after completing its test, the owner Rob Handford having fitted a replacement gearbox. The other ex Birmingham resident in the photograph is a 1947 Daimler CVA with Metro-Cammell body. Both vehicles are on display at the Wythall Transport Museum.
For the wide ranging types of operation undertaken by Knotty Bus & Coach, Stoke on Trent, this type of coach was as close to perfect as it came. The semi - automatic (6U2R) AEC Reliance with Plaxton Supreme bodywork was able to perform almost any task required of it , from Private Hires, through school and works contracts to Local bus service. By todays standards, with small high revving engines, the AEC engine in NNN 9P was huge at 12.47 litres, but that didn't stop the type sometimes returning over 15mpg on a run (compared to a modern equivalent of under 10). NNN as she was know, had been new to Derby Corporation Transport in 1976, and was the only one of the batch with a coach, rather than 'express' doors.
I took this picture in the Staffordshire Village of Swynnerton whilst returning from the MoT Testing station shortly after acquisition. The main purpose of the shot was a tongue in cheek entry into a cometition being run in 'Buses' magazine jointly with Plaxton for the best shot of a 'P' reg Plaxton bodied vehicle. Tongue in cheek, because this was 'P' reg from the first time round. They published the shot, as they said 'for the cheek of it!' then returned my picture several months later with a letter saying 'that on this occasion, they were un-able to use it' ...
This is one of the vehicles that took part in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1990. It's a 1951 AEC Regal IV with a Burlingham body but it's not listed in the programme of the event. It was apparently provided new to a company in Worcester and the 'FK' in the registration number shows that it was registered in Dudley.
410LMN a 1968 built AEC Regent V with Willowbrook bodywork was the last ever AEC double deck chassis to be built ending a very long line in a very rich transport heritage, it is seen at the Sea Terminal in Douglas on a private hire for the evening reception of a Wedding. It is owned by Bus Vannin in its heritage fleet.
The pair of RMAs had been converted to open top and right hand boarding prior to export for use by Stagecoach Portugal.