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September 24, 1954
On September 24, 1954, aEC Routemaster, the iconic London bus was introduced. Robert Greenberg, Trevor Francis, Ebiet G. Ade would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · September 24, 1954
AEC Routemaster, the iconic London bus was introduced.
The AEC Routemaster is a front-engined double-decker bus that was designed by London Transport and built by the Associated Equipment Company (AEC) and Park Royal Vehicles. The first prototype was completed in September 1954 and the last one was delivered in 1968. The layout of the vehicle was conventional for the time, with a half-cab, front-mounted engine and open rear platform, although the coach version was fitted with rear platform doors.
Around 1954
The year in brief
1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1954th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 954th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1950s decade.
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On September 24, 1954
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1954 AEC Routemaster, the iconic London bus was introduced. British double-decker bus
The AEC Routemaster is a front-engined double-decker bus that was designed by London Transport and built by the Associated Equipment Company (AEC) and Park Royal Vehicles. The first prototype was completed in September 1954 and the last one was delivered in 1968. The layout of the vehicle was conventional for the time, with a half-cab, front-mounted engine and open rear platform, although the coach version was fitted with rear platform doors.
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1954 The Cochabamba–Santa Cruz highway connecting western and eastern Bolivia is inaugurated. Highway in Bolivia
Route 7 is a national road in Bolivia. Prior to its opening in 1954 western and eastern Bolivia were poorly connected. It remains the main road connecting Bolivia's montainious west with the tropical lowlands to the east.
Elsewhere that year
Other moments from 1954
- April 1 United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- April 18 Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
- April 22 Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
- April 25 The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
- April 26 The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
- April 26 The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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