BUSWORLD PHOTOGRAPHY

I AM CHRISTOPHER LEACH THE ARTIST. I started this blog so that I can share with everyone my vast collection of transport photographs showing a personal and nostalgic view of the industry with images that span some 45 years taking in the U.K and some of Europe. I have no darkroom and so rather than being the perfectionist after tidying them up I upload the images warts and all, and even those that won't scan squarely or are scratched. In a way it adds age and character. You are all free to download these for your personal use but please remember I still own them and you are not just free to use them without prior permission for any knd of publishing. Click on images to enlarge them and if you want to see more leave your comments or visit my website for the mother-site with galleries including those Buses & Girls: PICTUREWORLD

Wednesday 3 June 2009

This one's too laid-back: She's no amber-gambler


I doubt if the bold promotional advertising for a Casino would encourage the driver or pedestrians to take more risks but in the days when the BVG Berlin buses were mostly a typical German dull cream colour they certainly added a bit of variety to the scene. Some of these all-over liveries were rather ghastly but this mostly brown design was rather attractive. Many schemes covered the whole bus like this but thankfully in this instance they did not feel there was a need to replace the radiator-grill with a plain panel and especially as this was one of the in my opinion nicer earlier double-deckers of this large type which still carried the legendry German Bussing name alongside MAN who had absorbed it. In the early Eighties No.2703 was about to leave The Zoo Bahnhof for Heerstr beside the Berlin Wall but close to Spandau where the bus was garaged.

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