The AEC Regal IVs and Regent IIIs, or to give them their class
prefix letters RFs and RTs, are among the most revered buses to
have served London over the years. The RFs were maids of all work
and were tailored for private hire, Green Line coach work and
ordinary stage bus work in both the central and country areas. The
first of the type were introduced in October 1951 and a total of
700 vehicles were built for the London Transport Executive. They
replaced virtually all the other types of single-deckers then
operating in the metropolis. The RT was first introduced to service
in 1939 and production ran to 151 vehicles before construction
ceased in early 1942. Following the war, the Park Royal factory
recommenced building the type in 1947, with the last new chassis
being rolled out in 1954, taking the bonnet number RT4825. Both
types soldiered on throughout the 1970s as LTE encountered severe
problems with their 'OPO' replacements before both finally bowed
out within a week of each other in March/April 1979. This account
charts the last years of operation of both types from the mid-1970s
onward, focusing on North London.
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