Only One! Corgi 1:76 1950 AEC Regent 'Halifax JOC'

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The AEC Regent III (also known as Regent 3 or Regent Mark III) was a type of double-decker bus chassis manufactured by AEC.

It was mainly built for operation outside London and overseas. It could be fitted with AEC's 9.6-litre diesel engine (except a minority with 7.7-litre ones), 'Wilson' preselective epicyclic gearbox (except for a minority with crash gearboxes; a synchromesh option also became available in the early 1950s) and air-pressure operated brakes (except a minority with vacuum brakes). The Regent III was available with bodies from a number of manufacturers including Park Royal, Metro Cammell Weymann and Charles H. Roe.

 AEC Regent III was superseded by the AEC Regent V, not the AEC Regent IV underfloor-engined double decker which existed as a one-off prototype only. The last Regent IIIs were supplied to Reading Corporation in 1956.

London Transport acquired 76 AEC Regent III buses with Weymann lowbridge bodywork. They were numbered as the RLH-class (Regent Low Height) and were used by London Transport from 1950 until 1971.

The first 20 RLHs were built in 1950 and were almost identical to 10 vehicles sold to Midland General. In 1952 a further batch of 56 buses was purchased which had minor differences. The fleet operated from various garages around both the Central area (painted red) and the Country area (painted green) of London Transport, usually where a low railway bridge over the road would otherwise cause a problem.

Many RLHs were sold for further use after London Transport. Due to their lower height of 13 feet 6 inches (4.11 m), about 1 foot (0.3 m) lower than standard double-decker buses, a significant number found their way to other countries especially in Europe and the USA where maximum vehicle height restrictions allowed them to operate.

The AEC Regent III RT (RT-type) was first built in 1939 and was designed for and by London Transport. It was the standard red London bus during the 1950s, with a total of 4,825 buses built for London Transport. Although not all were in service at the same time.

Some RT-type buses were built for operation outside London, such as for St Helens Transport.

Halifax Joint Committee was an independent bus company operating in and around Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.

Its buses were painted in the livery of the former County Borough of Halifax whose buses and services were taken over by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive in April 1974.

The company started off running a heritage bus service from Halifax along the Calder Valley to Hebden Bridge using, AEC Regent III BCP 671.

The company expanded to running commercial bus services using 4 Park Royal AEC Routemasters. Looking for an OPO vehicle they bought an Ex London Transport, MCW Metrobus (BYX 273V)

They continued purchasing Ex LT MCW Metrobuses along with 2 Leyland Titans and Leyland Nationals. The Titans & Nationals didn't last as long as expected so was replaced by more LT Metrobuses and Dennis Darts.

2007 saw the purchase of a Leyland Olympian (F234 YTJ) 2008 saw the purchase of number of Ex Dublin Bus, Leyland Olympians.

Until 2013 vehicles most of the fleet were elderly ex Transport for London buses, Dennis Darts and ex Dublin Bus Leyland Olympians. Buses ran from about 07:00 to 19:00 Monday-Saturday. The company had a number of school bus contracts, which have now been withdrawn. They retain two zero-fare supermarket bus services. The proprietor also operates a growing heritage fleet of ex-municipal vehicles on private charters.