Stonier's KVD 15E.
Following an enforced week away from posting by a fault on our land-line, which also took out my ability to connect my computer gubbins to the interweb, I'm back again! That break gave me more opportunity than was good for me to undertake some digital colouring. Several of the items treated aren't my own copyright, so best if I don't share them here. However, I've had a go at a few of my older ones like the accompanying shot back from the days when I could barely afford photography, let alone colour.
This one shows Stonier of Goldenhill's ex Hutchison of Overtown AEC Reliance '470 / Willowbrook, KVD 15E. Whilst the original isn't perfectly sharp, it is one of my better ones from circa 1977 and I think it has responded quite well to colourisation.
'KVD' was the penultimate Stoniers bus which had seen service with the famed Scottish independent, and it served Stonier's reasonably well. Its small engine was a bit of a false economy as it had to be worked hard in the hilly terrain of North Staffordshire. That said, I recall it climbing the notorious Lime Kilm Bank east of Hanley one Saturday with 96 passengers aboard!
The photo was taken alongside the garage on High Street, Goldenhill were coincidentally, I started work 44 years ago today.
Stonier's KVD 15E.
Following an enforced week away from posting by a fault on our land-line, which also took out my ability to connect my computer gubbins to the interweb, I'm back again! That break gave me more opportunity than was good for me to undertake some digital colouring. Several of the items treated aren't my own copyright, so best if I don't share them here. However, I've had a go at a few of my older ones like the accompanying shot back from the days when I could barely afford photography, let alone colour.
This one shows Stonier of Goldenhill's ex Hutchison of Overtown AEC Reliance '470 / Willowbrook, KVD 15E. Whilst the original isn't perfectly sharp, it is one of my better ones from circa 1977 and I think it has responded quite well to colourisation.
'KVD' was the penultimate Stoniers bus which had seen service with the famed Scottish independent, and it served Stonier's reasonably well. Its small engine was a bit of a false economy as it had to be worked hard in the hilly terrain of North Staffordshire. That said, I recall it climbing the notorious Lime Kilm Bank east of Hanley one Saturday with 96 passengers aboard!
The photo was taken alongside the garage on High Street, Goldenhill were coincidentally, I started work 44 years ago today.