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, 7 February 2008
Just like this Print memories of Luton Corporation are yellow with age
Many Municipal operators surrounding Britain's major cities were lost when they became integrated into the Area PTE's but in 1970 two more sold out to the NBC, Exeter to Western National's smaller Devon General unit and Luton to United Counties. Luton ran seventy-five buses from a modern garage in Park Street and it's double-deckers were all of the unpopular lowbridge or later lowheight variety. Most were Leylands but there were eight Dennis Lolines too and sixteen Albion Lowlanders like attractive 1962 East-Lancs bodied No.174. Actually outside Scotland these buses were marketed as Leyland's but in this shot one can still see there was an Albion Badge at the top of the radiator grill to show it's true Scottish pedigree. Sadly some of my photographic prints have yellowed with age like this print of 1968 but I'm sure many will still want to see some fine old buses of Yesterday.
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