Description
A reluctant sale of our AEC Routemaster, RM548 Dartmaster. She has a reliable Cummins B series engine and Allison gearbox and is an excellent runner.
COIF
64 recovered seats
Tachograph (to 2020)
New Class 6 MOT Until 12/ 2019
Ready for work or preservation
Interior and exterior full respray in LT colours
Had 10 weekly safety inspections for last 5 years
Brief History…
RM548 entered service with London Transport in December 1960, initially working from Hanwell Garage in West London on routes 207 and 255. In-between overhauls RM548 also saw service at Hackney, Upton Park, South Croydon, Battersea and Brixton bus garages.
In 1994 some 34 years after first entering service RM548 was withdrawn and sold into private hands where she was used as a promotional vehicle for Yellow Pages and Marie Curie Cancer Care, but due to a shortage of Routemasters in London she was purchased back and in 2002 was part of the Routemaster modernisation programme and sent to Marshalls of Cambridge for a complete re-build. Her AEC engine was replaced with a more modern Cummins unit.
After modernisation, RM548 re-entered service in South London; it was here on the 9th December 2005 that she was one of the last Routemasters to operate on route 159 in front of the world's media on the final day of general Routemaster operations in London.
Viewings essential by appointment only.
