Nottingham AEC Swift.
Thumbing through the old 1970's Northern Counties book this morning I came across a picture of one of the Nottingham City Transport AEC Swifts. These buses attracted my interest from the day I became aware of their existence. I can remember a couple of efforts at sketching them as a teenager too.
Northern Counties were definitely on the ball with their double deck designs and I particularly liked their offerings on early Fleetlines, but they seemed to get into a tizzy when it came to single deckers. The body on these Swifts was quite like nothing else, but they did have a not to Nottingham's then current styling ideas. I just make the latter as an observation rather than a compliment. The result was quite a massive looking single deck bus.
Time tells us that NCT didn't really get on with their Swifts and that they were sold on to another AEC loving municipal, Grimsby Cleethorpes Transort.
The original of this image was of course black & white. The resultant colourisation isn't brilliant, but in my defence, the available image scan was pretty poor too.
Nottingham AEC Swift.
Thumbing through the old 1970's Northern Counties book this morning I came across a picture of one of the Nottingham City Transport AEC Swifts. These buses attracted my interest from the day I became aware of their existence. I can remember a couple of efforts at sketching them as a teenager too.
Northern Counties were definitely on the ball with their double deck designs and I particularly liked their offerings on early Fleetlines, but they seemed to get into a tizzy when it came to single deckers. The body on these Swifts was quite like nothing else, but they did have a not to Nottingham's then current styling ideas. I just make the latter as an observation rather than a compliment. The result was quite a massive looking single deck bus.
Time tells us that NCT didn't really get on with their Swifts and that they were sold on to another AEC loving municipal, Grimsby Cleethorpes Transort.
The original of this image was of course black & white. The resultant colourisation isn't brilliant, but in my defence, the available image scan was pretty poor too.