RLH 52

Entries are in reverse date order.

March/April 2023
The Perch (12th floor roof top), Capital One Center, 1805 Capital One Drive, Tysons, Virginia 22102 USA.
*Photo © Shane Ross*

May 2022
Opened as a food truck for Grandpa Hank's Jamaican Kitchen beside Perch Putt, The Perch (park in the sky), Capital One Center. The food is served and prepared by staff in the bus, and seating is at benches outside in the roof top park alongside a crazy golf course. The roof sports a giant Union flag. The rear platform is open again for selfies, although it no longer has access to the interior. The staircase and upper deck floor are probably removed. There is also an American single decker Flex Citybus and an Airstream caravan, converted in a similar manner for different foods, in front and behind the RLH.

16th November 2021
Being craned onto a 12th floor roof top at Capital One Center, 1805 Capital One Drive, Tysons, Virginia 22102 USA.
The plinth can be seen underneath, with legs so the (pretend) wheels won't actually touch the ground. In this offside view, the staff entrance door can be seen. The downstairs windows are mock ups, but the upstairs windows are real (but reconstructed in a modern style). On the other side (nearside) there are large openings for serving food. In a nod to continuing the history of this bus, which has spent far longer in the States than in London, the side adverts ('Tour London & Buckingham Palace...') reproduce those the bus carried in its previous incarnation inside a restaurant in Washington state (see below). For the same reason, the front blind reads 'Picadilly Square' and the nearside blind box reads 'Ferguson Station'. The rear advert is for Bisto gravy granules, which may be an original advert from its time in the UK that was uncovered when stripping layers of paint off for this latest development.
*Photo © Chameleon Concessions*

August 2021
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
being converted in the workshop of Chameleon Concessions to become a hospitality unit mounted on a steel plinth. The chassis has been removed.
*Photo © Chameleon Concessions*

April 2019
Pictured on Facebook moving from Spokane by low loader to a workshop in New London, Minnesota, USA

September 2015
Spokane, Washington state, USA
With 'Ferguson Station' displayed in the side blindbox
*Photo © J. Riggs*

September 2011
Spokane, Washington state, USA
Plinthed alongside a British phone box
*Photo © B. Martin*

September 2010
Same location as below
*Photo ©, and used with permission of, S. Keating*

Approx October 2008
Washington state, USA

*Photo by, and used with permission of, M. Ferguson*

June 2008
Purchased from the Spaghetti Factory Restaurant, Spokane, Washington state, USA.
Bus had previously been inside the restaurant (with no engine).

April 1959: Became one of only eight RLHs which changed from green to red with London Transport, in the course of moving garage allocation to the Central area; from Guildford to Dalston.

RLH 52 was the last RLH built green.

1952: RLH 52 was built, painted in green for use in the London Transport country area.

UK registration number: MXX 252. For other identifying numbers (chassis, body etc) please see this table.

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