Busworld Photography: I suppose we should thank Saint Ursus for the rain

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

Sunday, 16 September 2007

I suppose we should thank Saint Ursus for the rain

Off the tourist beaten track and somewhere few of you will have heard of I expect is the interesting historic Swiss town of Solothun complete with a nice stone castle. The town might also have it's own Patron Saint called Ursus whose portrait painted by Holbein in 1522 hangs in the local art gallery, but even this Sacred Virgin was unable to stop the foreign invasion as like elsewhere in Switzerland vehicles like this Mercedes 0405GL were taking to the streets. By 1990 when this view was taken the sole remaining Swiss chassis builder NAW was Mercedes owned and building Mercedes buses to Swiss specifications, but in a small country with little to export themselves the other complete Mercedes buses like this coming from Germany must have hit the local bodybuilders like Hess and Ramsier hard.