When I came to Switzerland in 1963 to school this fleet of twenty VMCV Saurer trolleybuses that worked the long route beside Lake Geneva all the way from Vevey to Villeneuve was quite new and so it was nice to see them not looking a day older when I returned as the Eighties crept into the Nineties. Switzerland had a reputation for expensive quality engineering but sadly today they can't afford to do it and have to buy their buses from the people who can build in bulk to help pay for all that wonderful here today gone tomorrow technology which might make things quieter and life easier and I'm sure many might say better. The M in VMCV of course stands for Montreux where No.4 stands outside the once very grand Montreux Palace where the English rich once came to enjoy the magnifcent scenery and wonderful air.
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