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.
Friday 11 September 2009
If it says Leyland on the tin....
....it probably isn't. Well it's certainly not a proper Leyland bus more likely being based on the light truck Terrier chassis as often also happened in the UK. This student college bus was enjoying a lazy day as it was Sunday in Lisbon.
I think you are right about the truck chassis. An obvious give-away are the air vent openings in the front, which are unusual for Utic integral buses. So it must actually have a Leyland motor indeed, unless they put a Volvo in it later.
This CS-74-44 is a LEYLAND FF1100, DP36F, chassis number 432974, built by UTIC-Lisboa in 1974, construction number 719/74 and was new to Fábricas Leacock Rosa Ltd. in Abrunheira, near Sintra.
I think you are right about the truck chassis. An obvious give-away are the air vent openings in the front, which are unusual for Utic integral buses. So it must actually have a Leyland motor indeed, unless they put a Volvo in it later.
ReplyDeleteBeauty this photo, debit itself to be right on this chassis.
ReplyDeleteHello Chris and Duarte!
ReplyDeleteThis CS-74-44 is a LEYLAND FF1100, DP36F, chassis number 432974, built by UTIC-Lisboa in 1974, construction number 719/74 and was new to Fábricas Leacock Rosa Ltd. in Abrunheira, near Sintra.
Thank you for your photos, Chris!