D Stazicker Photography
rear rider
Very occasionally a vehicle design will come along which in my opinion looks better from the rear than the front ! The Colomborider must fall within this catergory... The idea was a British Optare designed body on a rugged chassis initially for Sri Lanka but with plans for the Phillipines & Vietnam. The prototypes were built in the UK and then production was transferred to a new factory near Seeduwa in Sri Lanka. Optare joined with Ceymo automobile & Itochu to provide a one stop shop support to the vehicles. However the terrain & operating conditions in Sri Lanka which I consider to be one of the top three of most punishing in the world did the vehicles no favours, some have lasted into 2018 but they are now a dying breed or are being reconstructed or rebodied. This is 63-4906 ( KS11 ) from Kandy South depot on a Ashok Leyland chassis in the traffic battle during May 2018. The rear is clearly original with its distinctive Optare style of the period. Quite a coincidence that Ashok Leyland now control 98% of Optare all these years later after the vehicle above was built by the two separate companies !
rear rider
Very occasionally a vehicle design will come along which in my opinion looks better from the rear than the front ! The Colomborider must fall within this catergory... The idea was a British Optare designed body on a rugged chassis initially for Sri Lanka but with plans for the Phillipines & Vietnam. The prototypes were built in the UK and then production was transferred to a new factory near Seeduwa in Sri Lanka. Optare joined with Ceymo automobile & Itochu to provide a one stop shop support to the vehicles. However the terrain & operating conditions in Sri Lanka which I consider to be one of the top three of most punishing in the world did the vehicles no favours, some have lasted into 2018 but they are now a dying breed or are being reconstructed or rebodied. This is 63-4906 ( KS11 ) from Kandy South depot on a Ashok Leyland chassis in the traffic battle during May 2018. The rear is clearly original with its distinctive Optare style of the period. Quite a coincidence that Ashok Leyland now control 98% of Optare all these years later after the vehicle above was built by the two separate companies !