With the London Bus Company in the UK, along with RLH 71
Liverpool docks
After re-patriation to the UK along with RLH 53 and RLH 71.
Photo copyright M. Weeks
RLHs 53, 69 (centre) and 71
Oregon
Photo by S. McFadden
Taking part in the Ashland parade for Independence Day, after repainting with a white roof.
Under restoration in Gold Hill, Oregon.
Photo by M. Walton
Sold, along with RLH 69 and 71. Shown leaving for Oregon.
Photo by M. Walton
same location as below (with RLH 53 and 71)
Photo by, and used with permission of, Bob Martin
Murrieta, California, USA (with RLH 53 and 71)
Photo by David Humphrey
Murrieta, California, USA
Photo by David Humphrey
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)
Murrieta, California, USA (with RLH 53 and 71)
Photo © E. Pring
Upminster Station stand, route 248
Photo © R. Newport
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The bus was withdrawn on 17.4.71.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 (for the next 40 years, those three buses 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 retained their original paper interior advertisements and were, in general, perhaps the least modified RLHs in the USA.