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, 22 October 2010
A Gliderways glides into Stafford
Not my best shot but when I was at Stafford Art School visiting some girls at the top floor of the now demolished Camden Place I took one or two views against the light of buses coming along the Wolverhampton Road including what to some is the 'Holy grail', a superb Gliderways! Even the name seems to sum up those Fifties Harrington bodies with that unforgettable dorsal-fine above the rear window. However the final products from Harrington of Hove near Brighton were their finest, the Cavalier and the slightly more 'racy' Grenadier as seen here on Leyland Leopard 6911HA of 1963. Sadly they stopped building in 1966.
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