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.
Sunday, 23 March 2008
One for Pedro: Evora RN Albion No.8025
When I was lucky enough to do a tour of Portugal in 1986, the bright orange and white RN buses seemed to be everywhere I went and the smartest best kept examples seemed to be in the inland charming white walled historic town of Evora not too far from the Spanish border. This already slightly tall looking Albion Viking has an even more narrow wheelbase and one wonders how well it handled itself along the bumpy and cobble-stone local roads. I expect the steering was very heavy as Albions were quite brutish and not built for sissies so you had to eat a big bowl of scotch porridge oats in the morning before one could even attempt to adjust the driver's seat never mind move the thing. No doubt my Portuguese friends will tell me if I'm wrong about it.
Beautiful photo in Évora. RN 8025 was nº270 from "João Cândido Belo and Cª, Lda, new in 1971. It'was sold to a private institution in 1994.
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José Luis COVITA