THE LONDON & HOME COUNTIES BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Red Rover AEC singledeck buses
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 Marshall bodied AEC Reliance 10 (JPP11C) was purchased new with 53 bus seats. The archive picture shows it with a good load on the Elmhurst town service. The fleet number may seem out of sequence after 1, 2, 5, 6 and 8. The company used to assign a new vehicle the number of the bus it replaced. The physical numbers used were the black plastic ones used to number houses, screwed to the body. In 1977, to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the company founded in the days of the London pirate companies, the entire fleet was renumbered by the addition of 100 to each number (101-126) and thereafter new buses took the next vacant number. The series toppped out at 169 when the company was bought by Luton & District in 1988.
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 A second archive view of 10 in the Bicester Road yard, alongside one of the ex London RT buses with an inelegantly removed roof route number box. |
 Seen shortly after sale by dealers Moseley JPP11C is thought to be with Station Road Coaches of Hednesford in the Midlands. It has a sign in the destination box purporting to be on hire to the company. It later moved on to Morris Coaches of Bromyard, being painted in their cream and blue colours.
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 In the line up of AEC singledeckers, by then numbered 110, the Reliance is sandwiched between the Derwents.
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 From the other end 110 is the penultimate bus.
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