London Banter - View Single Post - Sad day for London and farewell to faithful friends

Peter Beale · September 4th 04, 03:18 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Martin Bienwald) wrote:

Well, to the general public an RT looks not very different from an RM,
and I guess in 1979 it didn't look as out-of-date as an RM looks in 2004
anyway. So it was probably seen as the demise of just another batch of
old buses by most people, even those interested in buses.

They did look different in that they were 7'6" instead of 8'0" (apart from the
RTWs). Another unique feature was that they were allowed to run with just
a single rear light for quite a few years after all other traffic (not bikes of
course) had to have two. ISTR this was because they were pretty obvious
with all their interior lights on.

Incidentally, that's the one thing that so many "period" films and television
programmes fall down on - they have the right vehicles, but with twin rear
lights when they would have had only one.

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Peter Beale