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

Friday 24 July 2009

Post Bus; Bendibuses in Bern


Both of these Post Buses seen at the Post Auto Bus Station in Bern were artics but whereas the PAH contractor's Volvo carries the old PTT livery which included a proper PTT (Post-Telephone-Telegraph) yellow, later buses of the reborn stand-alone Die Post/La Poste buses like Regie P27716 made-do with an inferior factory colour. Thankfully they still carried their distinguishing P-numberplate's but later that was to go too. However Postbus is still going strong and even though it has lost it's special status and monopoly in Switzerland, freedom to market itself has meant that it now runs satalites in various parts of France too using about 180 buses. Still this is nothing new as with Lichtenstein numberplate's to set them apart they had worked in that Principality too. Wouldn't it be funny if it bought out our troubled British operator National Express and yellow post buses ran through Smethwick.

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