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The AEC 691T was a one-off experimental three-axle double deck
trolleybus A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or trol ...
chassis manufactured by AEC. In 1932, the
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commissioned AEC to build an extended version of the AEC 663T. It was bodied by the
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works entering service with
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in March 1933. It had a front mounted door just behind the front axle, as opposed to a rear platform. It operated demonstration trips in
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in 1933 and
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in 1936.


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691 __NOTOC__ Year 691 ( DCXCI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 691 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era b ...
Trolleybuses Vehicles introduced in 1932