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This site is maintained by Peter Osborn.

Comment and contributions welcome - please e-mail me.

I have tried to credit photographs where I can and have obtained permission for publication when possible.  Please let me know if I have missed you out.

Links and bibliography

 

Below are a small selection of the many web sites and publications featuring red RFs.

 

Web sites:

Ian Armstrong's London Bus Routes - 50 years' history of most Central Area routes.
Ian Smith’s Bus Stop - everything about London buses.
Eamonn Kentell's Busphotos site includes an RF page.
Paul Redmond's 'Jasper's Transport Photos' site includes a large number of red RF photos.
Toby & John King's Local Transport History site has a nice range of evocative pictures.
Mike Beamish's LT page includes a few RFs.
Dick Gilbert's Classic Buses site features the RFs' predecessors, Ts, TDs and LTs and has a bookshop.
Russell Baldock's The Red London Bus has running day reports; the 'Glory Days' galleries featuring RFs, RTs and RMs are now separate.
Transport in Vision London Bus Photos has a changing selection
The AEC Southall site has photo galleries.
David Element's site has RTs but no RFs.
John Law's Municipals fotopic site has an LT selection
Alan Gryfe's e-plate site also has details of routes.
Not RFs, but David and Ewen Pring are the RLH experts, see the RLH Information Centre.
 
Thanks to site owners for permission to use photos on this site.
 
Publications:
RF by Ken Glazier (Capital Transport 1991)
Glory Days: RF by Steve Fennell (Ian Allan 2001)
London's Suburban Buses by John Gray (Ian Allan 1976)
Bus Portfolio 3: RF by Steve Fennell (World of Transport 1988)

Reshaping London's Buses by Barry Arnold & Mike Harris (Capital Transport 1982)

Ken Glazier's other informative books include London Buses in the 1950s and London Buses in the 1960s (Capital Transport)

Not an RF book, but a jolly good read - Alan Cross's Chit-Chats, published by the Omnibus Society in 2006.  Thanks to Alan for permission to use his photographs.

 

Thanks to Gerald Mead and John Parkin for permission to reproduce photographs.  For copies of their pictures, please contact Gerald at 6 Windmill Avenue, Ewell KT17 1LL and John at 59 Beechwood Court, West Street Lane, Carshalton SM5 2QA or by e-mail.

Want to hire an RF?

 

Our RF is not available for hire, but these links will take you to sites who can help:

Green Bus RF644 

Timebus RF491 

Credits

 

Photo this page © Tony Albery 2004.

 

Thanks to David Cole for the page header artwork - http://www.davidcolepictures.co.uk/