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1946 RT10-FXT 185
Item: 2921
Color: Red
Limited Edition 2000pcs
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RT10 entered service in May 1940 at the Chelverton Road garage and was
then transferred in December 1940 to Putney. We have modeled RT10 as
it was in 1946, having been painted in the new red and cream livery
which was almost exactly the same as the original RT1 prototype and
which would be adopted as the standard livery for STL?䏭 and new and
over-hauled RT?䏭 for the next four years. By this time, an off-side
headlight had been incorporated into the body below the driver window.
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1955 RT36-FXT 211
Item: 2922
Color: Green
Limited Edition 2000pcs
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The last of the pre-war 2RT2?䏭 were withdrawn
from passenger service on May 31st 1955. Most of them stayed with
London Transport as driver training or staff transport vehicles.
However, on Country Bus Route 327, which was operated out of
Hertford garage, there was a bridge at Brow bourns which had a
weight-carrying restriction which would not allow a standard
post-war RT3 with a full load of passengers to cross over it. In the
absence of any suitable STL?䏭,RT36 was one of only seven 2RT2?䏭
to be re-painted in the green and cream livery of the Country Area
and to re-enter passenger service on June 1st 1955 , where it stayed
until August 31st 1957 before final withdrawal when the bridge had
been strengthened. Our model replicates RT36 during its operation on
327.
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1947 RT402-HLX219
Item: 2923
Color: Red
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In 1947, manufacture of the first post-war RT3's
started and on Saturday May 10th of that year, RT402 was the first
of them to enter service, operating out of
the Layton garage on Route 10. This Weymann-bodied vehicle is a
3RT3 and incorporates all the characteristics this body. Externally,
the cab windows were revised and the ventilation louvers were
reduced in number. Furthermore, the rear off-side body panel in
front of the rear wheel arch no longer curved inwards. In terms of
Route information, a Route number plate was added to the front
near-side pillar and one above the front near-side window was
removed, the front destination blind box was re-located below the
Via box and the rear roof box has been omitted. Internally, the fare
chart moved to the off-side bulkhead, just above the off-side
longitudinal bench seat, and a bell cord was added.
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RT7-FXT182
Item: 2924
Color: Red
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In April 1946, three 2RT2, including RT7, were painted in an
experimental livery which was intended to replace the war-time one,
as used on our first RT model, 2920. This new simplified livery
consisted of an all-over red body with black wings and wheel arches,
a thin cream line above the upper-deck windows and a cream band
between the upper and lower decks. Our model features RT7 in this
short-lived livery, operating on Route 28 out of Chelverton Road
garage, where it had entered service in March 1940. During that
overhaul, the bell cord had been replaced with two bell pushes on
the lower deck, a curtain had been added behind the front lower deck
window and the handrails at the front had been re-sited.
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