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Re: Last RML platform signage

RT 4825, RTL 1631 RTW 500 etc etc never received any special treatment, only GB plated buses had any form of recognition and that stopped in the late 60s...
RML 2760 was acquired by Hanwell from Chalk Farm via a repaint in 1970, it left Hanwell for Aldenham January 1975 never to return.
All its later "normal" service life was spent at Upton Park.
Stagecoach East London recognised its "significance" in 1993 by repainting it into its original as delivered livery, (and refitting another AEC engine) and by not refurbishing it, making it in effect a Showbus some 10 years after they disappeared!.

My bus number (if any): RTL 960, RMC 1458, RM 1585 and several RTs

Re: Last RML platform signage


I would suggest that it was adopted as a Showbus much earlier than 1993 as firstly, like RML903, it was not part of the re-engining programme in the late 1980's, and secondly it was rallied in the early 1980's when the showbus era was in full swing.

My bus number (if any): RM1368

Re: Last RML platform signage

RML 2760 was certainly being taken to rallies in the early 1980`s as Andrew suggests.
Unfortunately it`s at the far end of this line up at Cobham Bus Museum on 12 April 1981 so the registration number is barely readable but it really is 2760.



The others are RM`s 8, 1250, 1563 and 737.