Midland Red West operated a large fleet of not very exciting Mercedes 608 minibuses on Worcester Local Services under the name Citibus but on a miserable wet day anything is welcome when it arrives. When I used to travel about more extensively in my van if there was somewhere convenient to pull up I would jump out and take individual bus pictures sometimes waiting by the bus stop not knowing what sort of bus it might be. I don't think I actually went into Worcester itself very often and this prompted me to make sure I didn't leave without a memento despite the awful weather and it is certainly an atmospheric picture of Robin Hood bodied No.1353 one of this huge batch of 105 vehicles delivered in the mid-Eighties when these minibuses were all the rage.
Think this is one of your best shots. Black and white suits the mood.
ReplyDeleteI know we all sneered to start with but the minibus was the revolution we all needed in the mid-1980s.
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Yes I like black and white too, it also covers up some of those horrible colours. As the minibus started to explore new routes often with cheap fare schemes they gradually filled seats till they got bigger to normal bus size, so they certainly spread the seeds of recovery.
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