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TF the custom of exhibiting a London
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Transport bus at the Commercial Motor Show is revived next year, it might well be a rear-engined version of the familiar Routemaster which will be exhibited. This is an impression of what such a bus would look like, a rather conservative, but very well-balanced looking vehicle. Frontal profile above the bottom deck and rear profile are identical to existing Routemasters, and the main side windows are of standard
width and depth. Gone is the short bay, with the "extended " look, adjustments to length being made in the front and rear bays. Major design changes would. of course, be in the front and rear chassis sub-frames, whilst standard Leyland or Daimler " power-paths" could be incorporated with the rear sub-frame. The rear of the bus would probably incorporate an enclosed engine compartment, rather than the currently familiar open one.