When the bus world was a wonderful place . . .
Ok, that opinion is subjective I know, but it was certainly a far better place than it is nowadays I think anyone would agree.
I bought this wonderful photo and several others from the nice chap who's been selling off the archive of the erstwhile 'Bus & Coach' trade magazine. It instantly appealed as it featured two excellent Premier Travel AEC Reliances with Alexander 'Y Type' bodies when brand new in the mid '60s and the whole scene exuded the Britain of my childhood. Needless to say, the original was black & white but I'd also bought it with a view to colourisation. I'd successfully avoided doing the latter until this last weekend as I thought perhaps it was a trifle ambitious with my levels of patience, equipment and skill. Its true to say that I could have gone on and on with it as many of these things are like a model railway whereby you can never actually declare it to be finished.
Anyway we also get a quiz aspect with this one. For bonus points which town do we see 1966 built FCE 132D and its duplicate powering away from? The adjacent Ford Anglia has a Manchester registration, but that's no real guarantee of it being in the North West.
When the bus world was a wonderful place . . .
Ok, that opinion is subjective I know, but it was certainly a far better place than it is nowadays I think anyone would agree.
I bought this wonderful photo and several others from the nice chap who's been selling off the archive of the erstwhile 'Bus & Coach' trade magazine. It instantly appealed as it featured two excellent Premier Travel AEC Reliances with Alexander 'Y Type' bodies when brand new in the mid '60s and the whole scene exuded the Britain of my childhood. Needless to say, the original was black & white but I'd also bought it with a view to colourisation. I'd successfully avoided doing the latter until this last weekend as I thought perhaps it was a trifle ambitious with my levels of patience, equipment and skill. Its true to say that I could have gone on and on with it as many of these things are like a model railway whereby you can never actually declare it to be finished.
Anyway we also get a quiz aspect with this one. For bonus points which town do we see 1966 built FCE 132D and its duplicate powering away from? The adjacent Ford Anglia has a Manchester registration, but that's no real guarantee of it being in the North West.