Vintage East Kent bus at Kent County Showground, Detling
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Vintage East Kent bus at Kent County Showground, Detling
Image: © David Kemp Taken: 5 Apr 2014
In recent years vintage buses have been on show at the South East Bus Festival held annually at Detling. This is an East Kent AEC Regent V with Park Royal 72-seat bodywork which gave around twenty years' service from 1959. Buses such as this combined a front entrance which gave the driver a better view of passenger movements with a traditionally placed front engine which many engineers found preferable to the rear-engined types that were beginning to find favour with other operators at the time.
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