Moving Swiftly back.
This bus was believed to be the last rear engined AEC 505 type to have worked in Portugal. RR-29-17 was a UTIC (Lisbon) Integral type U2027, and from memory had a manual gearbox. Technically it wasn't a Swift, but for all intents and purposes it was in the same way in which a Monocoach was a chassisless Reliance. The bus had at the time of this photo, recently fallen into Arriva ownership due to the English company's acquisition of several of Northern Portugal's larger independent operators.
Moving Swiftly back.
This bus was believed to be the last rear engined AEC 505 type to have worked in Portugal. RR-29-17 was a UTIC (Lisbon) Integral type U2027, and from memory had a manual gearbox. Technically it wasn't a Swift, but for all intents and purposes it was in the same way in which a Monocoach was a chassisless Reliance. The bus had at the time of this photo, recently fallen into Arriva ownership due to the English company's acquisition of several of Northern Portugal's larger independent operators.