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Leyland Titan PD2 RTW #RTW185
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| Name | Leyland Titan PD2 RTW (Leyland) Leyland Titan PD/London Transport RT | |
| VIN | ||
| Build Number | ||
| Built | 1949 | |
| Scrapped | ||
| Owners | ||
| 1949 | 1971 | LT London |
| 1971 | Private London | |
| Registration Numbers | ||
| Year Of Get | Year Of Remove | Registration Plate |
| 1949 | KLB 915 | |
| Vehicle Numbers | ||
| Year Of Get | Year Of Remove | Vehicle Number |
| 1949 | 1971 | RTW185 / LT London |
| 1971 | RTW185 / Private London | |
| Other Information | ||
| Privately preserved. | ||
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5 april 2009 - (UK). The RTW class were 500 eight feet wide buses – the first to be permitted in London. Even then, there were restrictions at first on which roads they could use and they were not allowed into the centre of the city. London buses today are even wider, and no-one complains. They carried an RT-style body with only slight modifications and were built by Leyland instead of AEC. This was eventually an LT’s Chiswick works skid bus until preserved in 1971.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
13 april 2014 - Cobham, UK - Brooklands: This RTW-type bus was a sub-type of the standard RT, being built to a width of 8 feet instead of the standard 7ft 6ins width - difficult to spot in practice except inside, where the extra width is more noticeable along the aisles between the seats. These buses were introduced after a long battle with the London police and traffic managers, who feared danger to the public and congestion on the roads if they were allowed to go anywhere - so they were restricted in the first instance to wider, straighter roads. In actual fact, Armageddon never happened and today we allow much larger vehicles to drive almost anywhere.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar