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RLH 69

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parade07.jpg 4th July 2007

Taking part in the Ashland parade for Independence Day

2007-04.jpg April 2007

Under restoration in Gold Hill, Oregon.

Photo by M. Walton

03637.jpg March 2007

Sold, along with RLH 69 and 71. Shown leaving for Oregon.

Photo by M. Walton

photo May 2005

same location as below (with RLH 53 and 71)

Photo by, and used with permission of, Bob Martin

photo October 2001

Murrieta, California, USA (with RLH 53 and 71)

Photo by David Humphrey
photo October 2001

Murrieta, California, USA

Photo by David Humphrey
photo October 2001

Murrieta, California, USA

Photo by David Humphrey
North County Times Newspaper article from 2001 about RLH 53,69 and 71 in Murrieta (link last updated 2005-01-19)
photo November 1998

Murrieta, California, USA (with RLH 53 and 71)

Photo by Ewen Pring

RLH 69 (registration MXX 269) was always a Central area red bus, and during its LT career of nearly 20 years, served at all 4 of the Central area garages which operated RLHs.

According to the official LT record, it was allocated new to Merton on the 10.12.52. It was first overhauled between 30.8.56 and 19.10.56. It was re-allocated to Harrow Weald from 20.8.58, and overhauled again from 21.9.60 to 8.11.60. Another change of garage on 21.7.61 took it to Dalston. The final overhaul occurred between 01-01-65 and 01-03-65, after which the bus served from Hornchurch, switching back to Dalston from 19.9.70.

The bus was withdrawn on 17.4.71. It was exported (perhaps with the non-authentic route 11 blinds in the apertures) to a museum 'the Hill Country Wagons to Wings Collection', Morgan Hill, California, USA in January 1972 along with RLH 53 and RLH 71 (ever since then, those three buses have stayed together).

In November 1993, it was sold at auction to a gentleman who wished to use them on a proposed tour of the Murrieta Temecula valley. The tour did not go ahead and the buses remained in a back yard for nearly 15 years (see above photos). They retain their original paper interior advertisements and are, in general, perhaps the least modified RLHs in the USA.

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