martyn dawe wrote in
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In message op.tkrq14r3m4iaeb@dell, Fig writes
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:55:12 -0000, wrote:


Ken Wheatley wrote:

There can't have been too many Routemasters in 1958, only the
prototypes existed.

Ken, this is a painful subject for me! As a schoolboy, I spent several
Saturdays 'bashing' RTWs. Unfortunately the iPod generation think that
***all*** red London doubledeckers with rear platforms from RT1 onwards
were called "Routemasters". The Wikipedia entry on RMs ruefully notes
this fact.

So...change it. That is what Wikipedia is for!
:-)

And if the film was based on the wartime period, routemasters did not
exist than ?

I think what he means is that I was wrong to refer to it as a
"routemaster" because the term only applied post 1958.

But as it happened, since the film was made post 1958 anyway, they probably
*were* routemasters.