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

Saturday 4 April 2009

Two Volvos in Porto

The Evening Rush-Hour in Porto as in the Summer heat intending passengers have to keep to the narrow pavement as the buses taking them home thud their way passed over the cobbles down beside the railway station.

6 comments:

Artdesire said...

Typical for Portugal are the indoor bus stations. In the middle of a seemingly impossible street for buses you can find the entry and exit doors of a bus station that can hold up to 20 buses at the same time. Most legendary is Garagem Atlántico in Porto.

Miguel Tavares said...

This photo was taken away in the Street of the Cativo, in the city of Oporto.
The bus of the left is a Volvo B10M-60, with bodywork Irmãos Mota Atomic MkII, of 10/1982, of the enterprise Auto Viação Feirense, of Lourosa.
The bus of the right side is a Volvo B58-60R, with bodywork Camo, of 10/1974, with front rebuilt for Irmãos Mota Atomic, was the nº 29 of the enterprise Auto Viação Sandinense and later it passed the nº 4406 when the enterprise was sold to the Alsa Spanish enterprise. In present it does not exist already that it was knocked down in the scrap metal. It had capacity for 73 passengers.
I miss the times when it was driving it, in spite of the age it was a bus that was walking very well, it was giving taste to drive it.

christopher said...

Thanks for you comment Miguel, it's nice that not only do you know a lot about these old buses you actually knew and drove them.

simao28 said...
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simao28 said...

Hello Miguel

Do you remember what part of the front of Sandinense 29 was rebuilt by Mota? It seems an almost Camo original front...

Regards,

Artdesire said...

João, the headlight module was replaced. Camo buses used to have smaller round headlights.