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.
Tuesday 5 April 2016
Metrobus Mark1 BOK 72V at Cannock
I never thought it at the time but I really miss some buses from the Eighties and Nineties and a good example is the delicious sounding MCW Metrobus of which there were many in the West Midlands fleet including 2072 seen here at Cannock Bus Station.
Never really rated the Metrobus, but I do miss Midland Red/WMPTE style destination blinds. Nice clear route number, destination and (usually) one intermediate via point. No advertising, no scrolling, no logos; just nice, simple, easy to read information.
Probably it's best feature was the Gardner engine, I think they were quite nice to drive but they were rust buckets I'm afraid. Pity the Titan was over-engineered and expensive as that was a lot more rugged than the Olympian. But by the end of it's long production run the Atlantean became a pretty good bus too.
Never really rated the Metrobus, but I do miss Midland Red/WMPTE style destination blinds.
ReplyDeleteNice clear route number, destination and (usually) one intermediate via point.
No advertising, no scrolling, no logos; just nice, simple, easy to read information.
Probably it's best feature was the Gardner engine, I think they were quite nice to drive but they were rust buckets I'm afraid. Pity the Titan was over-engineered and expensive as that was a lot more rugged than the Olympian. But by the end of it's long production run the Atlantean became a pretty good bus too.
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