When I was a little kid, I used to think my mum was stupid. We were waiting for a 417 bus outside David Greig's in Slough High Street. A bus appeared round the slight bend several hundred yards to the west and she said, "This one might be ours." "No," I replied, "that's a 457." "You can't possibly see the number that far away." No, but I could tell it was a Craven-bodied RT. Windsor garage only had one of them and it was only used on route 457. (Or so I thought at the time - actually it had quite a few more.) Surely anybody with a modicum of intelligence could tell the difference between a Craven-bodied RT and a common or garden RT. Couldn't they?
Here are photos of Craven-bodied and normal-bodied RTs in the green livery familiar to me as a child. To go to the source of a photo, click in the image.
The photos of red RTs below show how different the Craven-bodied RT (left) looks when viewed from the front.
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