AEC Renown

The AEC Renown was the name AEC gave to three separate front-engined, rear-wheel-drive bus chassis between 1925 and 1967, each meant to carry a body from an outside coachbuilder. The first, the Model 411 of March 1925 with a 5.1 litre four-cylinder petrol engine, was a two-axle single-decker chassis, followed later that year by the 413 with a changed braking system. The second, Models 663 and 664, appeared in 1929 as three-axle chassis with a 6.1 litre six-cylinder petrol engine and later diesel options, and the London General Omnibus Company bought over 1,200 of the 663 as double-deckers. The third, the low-height 3B2RA and 3B3RA, replaced the Bridgemaster in 1962 and ended in 1967 after Leyland, which also had the Bristol Lodekka and Albion Lowlander in its range, stopped taking orders; 251 were built.