As well as creating a bit of variety it is always of interest to see newer buses in liveries from the past. Unfortunately most of them don't quite hit the mark as the donor vehicles are not suitable or my guess is they often get some graphic artist to dress them up in basically the same colours. But Travel West Midlands did a number of buses in the various Corporation colours and they were so realistic they could almost pass for the real thing. I suspect the job was carried out in the Works by craftsmen who remembered exactly how they were. Wolverhampton's MCW Metrobus 2989 looked just right covered in rain.
I remember a colleague from Wolverhampton commenting after seeing that bus "It just looks wrong. No real Wolverhampton bus would have been the same green all over!"
ReplyDeleteApparently Wolverhampton Corporation had a reputation for never having exactly the same shade of green in stock from one year to the next, so patch repairs were always guaranteed to be a different shade of green!
You might be right, but maybe this bus had so many green patches they had all become one. Paint matching was always a problem for the industry which was one reason why silver and other metallic shades went out of fashion.
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