Single deck Routemasters

English: The classic Routemaster bus was only ever built as a double-decker vehicle^T, however at least three have subsequently been converted to single-deck vehicles, for various reasons:

Preserved RM66

• RM66 (reg. VLT 66) - operating as a red double-decker in London from 1959 until 1987, it was then sold to a dealer who converted it to a shortened towing vehicle. Having operated in unbranded green (as 66RM) and in red/cream as BTS Coaches RM66 until 1995, it's since been preserved in red as London Buses Ltd RM66

Preserved RM1368

• RM1368 (reg. 368 CLT) - operating as a red double-decker in London from 1959, it was converted during 1975 by LT into a single-decker bus after being burnt out on New Year's Eve 1974 in an arson attack at LT's Tottenham bus garage. Turned out in LT red with London Transport fleetnames, it took over from RM8 as LT's Chiswick Works experimental platform, until being sold in 1990 and eventually preserved in LT red as RM1368, minus LT fleetnames

C.O.V.E.S. 2284 / ex-RML2284

• RML2284 (reg. CUV 284C) - operating as a red double-decker in London from 1959 right up to 2004 (the penultimate year of ordinary Routemaster operation in London) it was then sold for scrap by Metroline, but instead extensively converted by the Coulsdon Old Vehicle & Engineering Society (C.O.V.E.S.) into a mobile workshop/tour bus/meeting room, turning it out in LT Country Area style dark green (minus any fleetname), and renumbered simply 2284

^T - Three units, initially numbered RM5, RM6 & RM7, were built without a top deck, being road test platforms with just a cab and half a single-deck body. They were later rebuilt and entered service as standard RM double-deckers, renumbered as RM459/341/398 (with the numbers RM5/6/7 then re-allocated to other production units)