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The Scots municipal that bought Cravens RTs
| 题名： | The Scots municipal that bought Cravens RTs |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | ALAN MILLAR |
| 摘要： | Derek Simpson has followed his self-published history of Dundee's municipal buses from the 1950s to 1970s (Reviews, January 2021) with this study of the exposed radiator AEC and Daimler halfcabs bought between 1947 and 1956, each of the routes the corporation operated in the 1950s and 1960s, plus some additional pictures and information about the vehicles covered in the previous book. It is an affectionate but also realistic account of an undertaking that sometimes did things that did not appear to be in passengers' best interests. There were routes with separate numbers for inbound and outbound journeys, destination blinds were too often set at blank and although most double-deckers carried rear number displays, rear entrance single-deckers did not. Those Daimler single-deckers (usually) showed the outer destination, but that was less than helpful on a pair of routes that reached the same outer point on significantly different paths. As Simpson explains, anyone running to catch one of them would either have to dash quickly to the front to check the number or hop on and take a chance. Although it standardised on Daimler and AEC chassis, Dundee Corporation spread its bodywork orders more widely. Weymann and Metro-Cammell both figured in the mix, but so too did Northern Coachbuilders, Barnard of Norwich (to whom key Northern Coachbuilders personnel moved) and the Scottish factories of Croft, Brockhouse and Alexander. Dundee had first favoured Alexander in 1953 to body seven Regent Ⅲs, the last AEC double-deckers it bought new, but 40 more arrived secondhand ex-London Transport to accelerate the replacement of the last trams in 1956. Ten were Weymann-bodied STL-class Regent Ⅱs new in 1946, while the other 30 were newer Cravens-bodied RT-class Regent Ⅲs, the largest single batch of these prematurely withdrawn vehicles (a quarter of the class of 120) to go to one second life operator. The RTs - were kept until 1969. There is a good selection of black and white and colour photographs of the period, few of them published before. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | Buses |
| 卷： | 74 |
| 期： | 804 |
| 页码： | 94-94 |
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