Those AEC RT’s were fabulous machines. I only ever drove one once (not in London I hasten to add, it had been 'cascaded’down)
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I know the RM (Routemaster) is generally thought of as The “London Bus” but IMO it was really the RT (a bit like Spitfire vs. Hurricane).
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@les_sylphides On reflection, my previous came across a touch peremptory and rude, if unintentionally so. Perhaps it was the time of the month. Perhaps I’d had a bevy or three. Or both.
Anyway…
No probs, mate. Nice clear pic of GEH 513N, which was rallied for a while before being scrapped.
For a few seconds I had a vision of gravel tracks in forests…https://youtu.be/4_OcK0P9WOs?si=N4WHTumsQ5oAW1cf
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Thanks to my (very) amateur interest in the crossover between lorries and buses, I know that Foden made several types of coach/ bus chassis in the 50s and 60s. In all my meanderings, I have never heard of an ERF-based bus/ coach chassis. Over to you lot, perhaps @les_sylphides might have a clue.
I remember The Long Way Round and that river crossing, and that KAMAZ. Crude yes: effective, absolutely.
ERF (South Africa) made buses & coaches - single deckers - from about 1975 onwards. The early ones came from UK as CKD kits but were later made locally. The chassis was called the Trailblazer. By the '80s they were being fitted with locally built ADE (Atlantis Diesel Engine) engines. Many hundreds of them were built. The most detailed account I know of is in Dai Davies’s book, ERF The Inside Story.
But people love an open-top bus ride, don’t they?
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Didn’t know that. Is there a reason ERF at home didn’t build bus chassis?
Now That’s What I Call
… a tick over.
I clicked on it and couldn’t hear a thing! Mind you, I know what a Leyland 0.600 sounds like on tick-over…
I would imagine that it was almost certainly to do with the fact that Britain was making the world’s buses in dozens of factories all round the country and that everyone else had got in first with the likes of Leyland, Foden, AEC, Tilling-Stevens, Daimler, Crossley, Albion, Bristol, BMMO, Guy, Morris Commercial - and that was just the double-deckers, before you get onto the likes of Bedford, Ford and other coaches. I could be wrong of course 
…and if you thought I was joking about Morris double-deckers, try this for size:
I see your point.
I know of Morris commercials, but buses? My edumacation continues.
Maidstone Corporation Transport also ran Morrris Commercial Imperials as well as Sunbeam Trolleybuses
Bet the Skarnia boys are envious…it has even got a horn on the roof!
“Chinese six” Scammell tow wagon. Wonder if it was originally an 8-legger?
