Some of you like to imagine how modern buses might look in your favourite colours of the past. This also applies to other types like the Routemaster but a few of them became a reality like when the name Halifax Joint Omnibus Committee was revived by a local entrepreneur together with that distinctive livery. Of course I knew they were there but I'm sure this strange combination in the town might turn a few heads.
Nostalgia moment. Remember these colours so well from growing up in 1960s and 1970s. The old Halifax Passenger Exec in earlier times used Leyland Titans, and I remember AEC Regent 3s ('Old Ikes' to us boys) and Regent5s. The fleet modernised with Leyland (Daimler) Atlantis, and also Dennis Lolines. The latter were a bit of disaster as I recall, being underpowered and simply not suited to all the turns and steep inclines in the villages around Halifax. Petty the colours weren't kept.
ReplyDeleteRichard London