Fig wrote:

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!
:-)

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Fig

No need to - you've misunderstood what Mike Harrison was saying.
Re-read his comments and you'll see that he doesn't disagree with the
Wikipedia entry, quite the opposite in fact - he states that the
Wikipedia entry rightfully notes that RTs are often mistakenly called
Routemasters...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routemaster (under the Design heading)
"RT-type AEC Regent buses [...] and their similar Leyland Titan RTL and
RTW counterparts [...] are often mistaken for Routemasters by the
public and by the media."