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Routemaster - Oxford |
| Is this the most famous bus in the world? It was shown first in
1954 - 50 years ago at the Commercial Motor Show. It was time for the
trolleybuses to go as they had many drawbacks, the main one being their need to
stay in line - no overtaking and a disaster if one of them brokedown. It was in
1951 the decision was taken to develop a lightweight vehicle with the ability to
seat 64 passengers, an initial estimate of 2,000 vehicles being suggested.
Several protoypes appeared over the next few years and testing of the buses took
place with development being carried out by a range of companies. It wasn’t
until the early sixties that the buses were seen on the streets of London in any
quantity and by now a decision had been made to concentrate the future
development of buses on one-person operated vehicles. No further Routemasters
were built after 1968 although due to maintenance, refurbishment and
deregulation they are still seen not only in the capital, but also in many
locations throughout the UK and overseas. To celebrate the 50th Anniversary we’ve released the Routemaster in our Oxford colours which has been an omission from the range up to this point.  |
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