Buses on Screen > Films > Films D > The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961, Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern)

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The two stars are in Battersea Park when a fog cloud envelops London. They manage to find their way out of the park and onto a passing bus, RTL362 (KGU438). They sit upstairs and discover the fog only covers the lower deck. RTL362 also appears in The Sandwich Man (1966): (thanks to Bob Wingrove and Colin Read). Peter Burton comments: "Further vehicles can be seen in the film, including a Brighton Hove & District convertible Bristol K, from an aerial shot of Brighton Palace Pier:

Plenty of RT family vehicles in background shots, as well as a LT trolleybus front wheel area (I think!), an RF,"[NLExxx] "a full fronted coach"[in the closing scenes] "and a foreign tram." A bus is seen being blown over by high winds - it appears to be an STL, but the radiator is not seen clearly: Seen on the front of a copy of the Daily Express newspaper is a photograph of an RTL pushed over by high winds on Westminster Bridge:

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