Many know my more recent genre Buses and Girls photography as those earlier buses I really like have all gone so now I enjoy my bus hobby more for the photography. As well as being an artist I owned a small transport business before I retired but today I have a little job too driving a minibus dong a school run to Wolverhampton in the afternoon and occasionally other jobs. It gets me out and about and satisfies my childhood ambition to drive a bus.
Sunday, 22 July 2007
Berna and Saurer in Sion
When I first visited Sion in 1964 the PTT Regie fleet had three of the well-known bonneted glasswagon buses, these being Berna L4C Alpenwagen 111a buses P23152-4. The last of which is seen here at the Railway Station. By the end of the Nineties the old Swiss buses had almost gone and I'm glad that despite the awful weather I took one last photo of still smart looking Lauber bodied Saurer RH bus VS 106 000 because the next time I came it was a Mercedes standing in the snow. The Saurer was one of a pair delivered to a local PAH in 1984 just before Saurer ceased manufacturing buses.
Very nice, I recognize the bus that I often take to go to Veysonnaz via Les-Mayens-de-Sion!
ReplyDeleteAll right, this Saurer RH was bought in 1984, and remplaced in 1999.