![]() The LONDON TRANSPORT D classThis page created 13th December 1999, by Ian Smith![]() More Brush highbridge Daimlers: D93-D127![]() With the exception of D127 they appeared in service at Merton between May and July 1945. D127 arrived later, delivered in August but retained at Chiswick for tests until starting work in October. This was because it was an oddity. It had a Daimler engine and a new type of fluid flywheel. Strangely, it also had a body variation (apart from different floor traps to access the different transmission): it had a nearside display, above the platform, the first of the wartime Daimlers to do so. The buses carried their brown and cream until 1948, when they received red and white before their first overhaul, and again as part of that process during 1949. D127 was fitted with an AEC engine in May 1950. Most of the batch received the red with cream band livery between autumn 1951 and summer 1952, excepting D122. The batch spent their working lives with LT at Merton, and were withdrawn for sale as the RTs took over in 1953.
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