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training schools. Not content with holding an HGV Class I, Commercial Motor's deputy editor Brian Weatherley recently paid a return visit to Medway-based Carlton HGV Driving School to take a crash course (well, not quite) in PSV driving. Net result — our man duly emerged from Gillingham test centre with his pass certificate for Class I PSV.
That of course is of no interest to the Hawk, however. What caught my beady eye was the fine machine which said Weatherley drove for five days. Carlton's 1962 AEC Regent is a former East Kent machine still going strong. With non-powered steering, an old ratchet hand-brake, a synchromesh gearbox (with not much synchro left) and a top speed of 801(m/h down a 75% slope with the wind behind you, they certainly don't make them like that anymore. Thank God, some ingrates may say.
With plenty of old double deckers still on the road with driving schools the Hawk is anxious to find the oldest bearing L-plates and earning an honest living. Surely Carlton's 1962 Regent is a mere babe? Send details and pictures forthwith.