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.
Thursday, 19 July 2007
Toast with a glass of Port: A classic Leyland in Porto
After Portugal's bloodless revolution one of the things the Socialists did was to Nationalise many of the private bus companies. Those with less than fifty buses managed to escape the purge though and as there were a large number of smaller concerns in the Porto area the rush hour scene was not spoilt by the ever pervasive orange and cream RN fleet. My favourite buses have always been Leylands and particularly examples which carried those Leyland hub-guards and of course the legendary cast-metal cat badges.
This Leyland-Leopard of coach builder UTIC, is from the company Moreira Gomes & Costas, from Avintes, Vila Nova de Gaia.
ReplyDeleteThe company it was bought by Alsa, from Spain in 2004 or 2005, and bought again in July2008 by Valpi, from Paredes.