Refreshing
Many a bus station has been provided up and down the country only because its site could be surrounded by or entombed beneath a lucrative shopping or office development. One was never left in any doubt that the bus station was there on sufferance. "We've had to provide these facilities for nothing", the developer seems to say, "now look at dirt-streaked concrete for your imposition, and contemplate lame pigeons standing in oily puddles".
But Western SMT's livery looked good even in the suicidal surroundings of Glasgow's Anderston's Cross Bus Station. It's a pity that the bodywork on the late FLF Lodekkas lacked the band under the upper deck windows, seen on the older vehicle parked behind. Another unwelcome development was that the dummy radiator grille became integral with the fibreglass moulding of the engine cowl, which encouraged many operators to paint it out, badge and all. This bus was one of those that went north of the border in the Anglo-Scottish FLF-VRT exchanges of 1973. The vehicle, which came from the fleet of United Autos, has been equipped with a destination box of the Scottish Bus Group pattern, although a few of the ex-English FLFs were never modified.
I think the "Humpty-Dumpty" poster was the first of the famous "refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach" advertising campaign, which promoted a certain lager beer of Dutch origin. Taken Saturday 7th May 1977.
Refreshing
Many a bus station has been provided up and down the country only because its site could be surrounded by or entombed beneath a lucrative shopping or office development. One was never left in any doubt that the bus station was there on sufferance. "We've had to provide these facilities for nothing", the developer seems to say, "now look at dirt-streaked concrete for your imposition, and contemplate lame pigeons standing in oily puddles".
But Western SMT's livery looked good even in the suicidal surroundings of Glasgow's Anderston's Cross Bus Station. It's a pity that the bodywork on the late FLF Lodekkas lacked the band under the upper deck windows, seen on the older vehicle parked behind. Another unwelcome development was that the dummy radiator grille became integral with the fibreglass moulding of the engine cowl, which encouraged many operators to paint it out, badge and all. This bus was one of those that went north of the border in the Anglo-Scottish FLF-VRT exchanges of 1973. The vehicle, which came from the fleet of United Autos, has been equipped with a destination box of the Scottish Bus Group pattern, although a few of the ex-English FLFs were never modified.
I think the "Humpty-Dumpty" poster was the first of the famous "refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach" advertising campaign, which promoted a certain lager beer of Dutch origin. Taken Saturday 7th May 1977.