BUSWORLD PHOTOGRAPHY

I AM CHRISTOPHER LEACH THE ARTIST. I started this blog so that I can share with everyone my vast collection of transport photographs showing a personal and nostalgic view of the industry with images that span some 45 years taking in the U.K and some of Europe. I have no darkroom and so rather than being the perfectionist after tidying them up I upload the images warts and all, and even those that won't scan squarely or are scratched. In a way it adds age and character. You are all free to download these for your personal use but please remember I still own them and you are not just free to use them without prior permission for any knd of publishing. Click on images to enlarge them and if you want to see more leave your comments or visit my website for the mother-site with galleries including those Buses & Girls: PICTUREWORLD

Sunday 31 August 2008

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the Lisbon Sun


A deceptively quiet view of the Lisbon rush hour where No.118 in the Barraqueiro fleet a Utic-Leyland-DAB was resting between jobs.

4 comments:

Terminal Rodoviario said...

WOW !!!

Completly new for me!

Thank you! ;)

Artdesire said...

Great! I do not think many photos of this particular bus exist. Maybe none. You had the knack somehow of taking pictures of what us Portuguese guys did not have eyes for. The Leyland DAB Utic Standard was rather popular for urban services and the majority of bus companies at least owned one. But I've never seen the Barraqueiro one. I wonder if it was an ex. RN.

christopher said...

Yes that's the beauty of being an outsider, one sees everything with an open mind and in Portugal I seemed to have photographed everything. Maybe some things too much and others too little like more of the Porto trolleybuses. As for this being an ex-RN bus maybe it was not old enough yey to be sold in 1984.

Sant Driver said...

Hi!
Great photo, Christopher. Thanks.
O BARRAQUEIRO 118, foi o demonstrador do UTIC LEYLAND DAB "Standard".