Mercedes 0303 at Berlin Zoo

I've always taken pictures of coaches knowing they will become more interesting with age but as far as the Germans are concerned they don't seem to get excited about them despite their vintage. Of course long before the Leyland National appeared on the bus scene Mercedes was building almost identical coaches on their sophisticated production-line at it's Mannheim Plant which I was lucky enough to visit with my school in 1964 and this standardised product might explain why they are a bit dull. In the Eighties a fairly new looking but not so pretty 0303 of Berbig of Hamburg was visiting Berlin and if nothing else illustrates how livery and graphics have changed since then.