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.