Odd buses from the Seventies

People cite the MCW Orion and it's lightweight contemporaries of the Fifties and Sixties as being the paragon of bad proportion and ugliness. Well I feel after making rather elegant bodies in the Sixties on the rear-engined double-decker Northen Counties lost it's way somewhat in the design department till the advent of the Manchester Standard's which became a kind of timeless classic. What didn't seem to help was the way operator's chose a mix of modern curved and very plain glass at the front. The slab-like livery chosen by Fylde didn't help either with No.77's already top-heavy front.