Key facts
- Manufacturer
- Associated Equipment Company (AEC), Park Royal Vehicles
- Production
- 1954–1968
- Assembly
- Southall , London Borough of Ealing , England
- Designer
- Douglas Scott
- Layout
- Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive
- Doors
- 0 passenger doors, 1 permanently-open entrance at the back and 1 driver's door
- Floor type
- Step-entrance
- Chassis
- Integral, with front and rear subframes
- Engine
- AEC AV590 9.6 L or, AEC AV690 11.3 L or, Leyland O.600 9.8 L, 6-cylinder diesel, Retrofits: , Cummins ISCe / Cummins ISBe , DAF , Iveco , Scania
- Capacity
- 57–72 seated
- Power output
- 115 hp (86 kW) (AEC AV590)
- Transmission
- AEC 4-speed automatic/semi-automatic
- Length
- 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m), 30 ft 0 in (9.14 m)
- Width
- 8 ft (2.44 m)
- Height
- 14 ft 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (4.38 m)
- Kerb weight
- 7.35 long tons (7.47 t; 8.23 short tons)
- Predecessor
- AEC Regent III RT
- Successor
- New Routemaster
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- double-decker bus
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- London
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Followed by
- New Routemaster
- Follows
- AEC Regent III RT
- Mass
- 7470
- Manufacturer
- Park Royal Vehicles
- Image
- Routemaster RML2588 (JJD 588D), 6 March 2004.jpg
- Height
- 4380
- Width
- 2440
- Length
- 8380
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- Commons category
- AEC Routemaster
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- Routemaster
- location of creation
- Southall
- nominal power output
- 86
- start time
- 1954-00-00
- end time
- 1968-00-00
- date of official opening
- 1958-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
RM1414 lower deck in October 2006
The AEC Routemaster is a front-engined double-decker bus that was designed by London Transport and built by the Associated Equipment Company (AEC) and Park Royal Vehicles. The first prototype was completed in September 1954 and the last one was delivered in 1968. The layout of the vehicle was conventional for the time, with a half-cab, front-mounted engine and open rear platform, although the coach version was fitted with rear platform doors. Forward entrance vehicles with platform doors were also produced as was a unique front-entrance prototype with the engine mounted transversely at the rear.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Routemaster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.