Golden showers
I look after you lot and I hope you appreciate the trouble I've gone to with this: it was taken against the light during a sharp downpour, leaving thousands ...yes thousands... of what looked like dust specks but were, in fact, raindrops caught in the sunshine. Sounds delightful but, believe me, it didn't look good. I was going to just get rid of the worst, but in the end, anal obsessive-compulsive as always, I clone-tooled almost the whole lot. It still looks a trifle "bitty", but nothing like as bad as it was. A faint suggestion of the original appearance is preserved at the left.
The photograph was taken on Wednesday 22nd March 1978 at Yate, near Bristol. The town's two big employers, Newman's and Parnall's, generated a lot of coach activity at knocking-off time in the afternoons. Swinging out, but with its nearside indicator going to pull in at the kerb was a Duple-bodied Seddon Pennine VI belonging to Western Roadways of Patchway. This firm was a familiar name around Bristol and was unusual in running large numbers of Seddons, but not long after this it ran into trouble over maintenance standards and sold out to another local independent, R.C, O. I. & A. J. Turner. Bus Lists gives the vehicle as new to Young, Rampton. The other coach belonged to H. G. Bugler of Brislington and was a Bedford SB3 with Plaxton body new (Bus Lists again) to Thomas, Biggleswade, in 1958. There is an identical vehicle, unfortunately not identified, a bit further down. Beyond is Bristol Omnibus Co. MW no. 2405, then in its final fortnight of service.
Golden showers
I look after you lot and I hope you appreciate the trouble I've gone to with this: it was taken against the light during a sharp downpour, leaving thousands ...yes thousands... of what looked like dust specks but were, in fact, raindrops caught in the sunshine. Sounds delightful but, believe me, it didn't look good. I was going to just get rid of the worst, but in the end, anal obsessive-compulsive as always, I clone-tooled almost the whole lot. It still looks a trifle "bitty", but nothing like as bad as it was. A faint suggestion of the original appearance is preserved at the left.
The photograph was taken on Wednesday 22nd March 1978 at Yate, near Bristol. The town's two big employers, Newman's and Parnall's, generated a lot of coach activity at knocking-off time in the afternoons. Swinging out, but with its nearside indicator going to pull in at the kerb was a Duple-bodied Seddon Pennine VI belonging to Western Roadways of Patchway. This firm was a familiar name around Bristol and was unusual in running large numbers of Seddons, but not long after this it ran into trouble over maintenance standards and sold out to another local independent, R.C, O. I. & A. J. Turner. Bus Lists gives the vehicle as new to Young, Rampton. The other coach belonged to H. G. Bugler of Brislington and was a Bedford SB3 with Plaxton body new (Bus Lists again) to Thomas, Biggleswade, in 1958. There is an identical vehicle, unfortunately not identified, a bit further down. Beyond is Bristol Omnibus Co. MW no. 2405, then in its final fortnight of service.