Saturday, 16 May 2009

Even for me some gems got away

But not even this one!
It wasn't particularly interesting at the time in 1984 but this bus which is rather like box on wheels still managed to get into my collection as I wanted an excuse to take a picture of the Volvo F12 British lorry a long way from home in Lisbon. I cannot tell you anything about the lightweight bus apart from it was going to Flamenta on service. It might be rare or the first of many.
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7 comments:

  1. Artdesire16 May 2009 at 02:07

    Isn't that an odd bus, that seemed to have skipped the designers table? I've seen only one picture of it once. I think it belonged to the company Barraqueiro. Most likely only a couple of those were built. Thank you for taking a picture of that very rare bus type.

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  2. christopher16 May 2009 at 04:10

    Yes I thought it was a bit of one-off too

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  3. simao2817 May 2009 at 20:09

    Hello

    There's a nice picture of it here:

    http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2350/30362676.jpg

    Regards,

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  4. christopher18 May 2009 at 08:41

    Thanks Joao, it looks even more strange from the side. looking at the wheels it looks like a Leyland?

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  5. Artdesire18 May 2009 at 10:25

    No, it's one of the older AEC's that got rebuilt by a not very well known coach builder. According to our Portuguese friends there's has been a second and similar one at another company.

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  6. Artdesire18 May 2009 at 14:08

    The other one can be found here:

    http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9458/bus060zp5.jpg

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  7. christopher19 May 2009 at 06:07

    I think that flat front would be problematical. For a start it would certainly not help the performance on the open road heading in to a strong wind and I imagine there would have been a lot of reflexions from other headlights at night.

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