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Colin Rosenstiel · October 30th 05, 12:40 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Bill Hayles) wrote:

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:56 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

In the back of my mind is the idea that RTs were pre-selector
boxes and the RM(L)s were fully auto boxes. Can anyone confirm
or deny?

That's my understanding.

The RMC, RCL and those RMLs built for the Country Bus department
(and thus passed on to London Country) were only semi-automatic. No
third pedal, but gears were selected manually - you had to change up
and down the box. It was the same with most buses of that (my!) era.
We had no fully automatic buses of any description (and more than a
few fully manual ones, but that's getting off the topic in hand).

What happened to the ex-London Country buses that came back to LT? Did
they change the gearboxes?

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Colin Rosenstiel