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, 12 July 2009
RN 4079
Congestion seemed to be part of the course in Portugal when I visited in 1984 as large buses negotiated narrow and busy roads, but at least it gave opportunity to take my shots like this one of a late series Utic bodied AEC in the large RN fleet.
Thanks again for another photo of a RN beauty. This one though is not an AEC but a Mack. You can recognize the Mack type by the higher inclination of the roof part. The floor of the Mack chassis was simply built higher. Mack buses were the favourite of Claras Transportes, the RN predecessor in that region.
Congestion seemed to be part of the course in Portugal when I visited in 1984 as large buses negotiated narrow and busy roads, but at least it gave opportunity to take my shots like this one of a late series Utic bodied AEC in the large RN fleet.
Thanks again for another photo of a RN beauty. This one though is not an AEC but a Mack. You can recognize the Mack type by the higher inclination of the roof part. The floor of the Mack chassis was simply built higher. Mack buses were the favourite of Claras Transportes, the RN predecessor in that region.
ReplyDeleteAnother brilliant shot!
ReplyDeleteTo me, as i am not old enough to have many memories of the RN, the highlight of this photo is the hiden Alfredo Caetano coach of Vimeca... lovely!
The VMC bus (an Alfredo Caetano Bravo) is one of the first B10M chassis in Portugal, if not the real first one !
ReplyDeleteVMC stands for Viação Mecânica de Carnaxide. It was one of the few private companies that wasn't incorporated in the RN, due to a small fleet size.
It has changed it's name to Vimeca Transportes in the last decade.
Notice also the grey metallic Renault 18 Turbo.
Maybe I photographed the wrong bus!
ReplyDeleteThere is no such thing as the wrong bus Christopher :)
ReplyDeleteKeep posting them :)
In Britain, sometimes buses heading for the town centre tend to take a circuitous route, turning left when the sign points to the right.
ReplyDeleteBut here, it seems it doesn't matter which way they go as all roads seem to lead to Lisbon.
Aha, in Britain it's just the same only both signs point to TESCO.
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