Ponty, 1978.
I find, on consulting the reverse of the original print, not the expected details of vehicle, date and place, recorded in my clerkly hand, but a carte blanche. The usual explanation was that a bus was too new when photographed to have yet appeared in any of the fleet lists at my disposal. This vehicle, however, had completed almost six years' service when photographed at Pontypridd on Friday 22nd September 1978. A mystery then. It may have been that I simply didn't consider the photo effort-worthy. Now, nicely scanned and becomingly cropped, it looks much better than the print ever did.
The bus ...I have had to look it up at Bus Lists... was an AEC Reliance 6MU4R with Willowbrook body. The flyover must carry the main A470 Cardiff-Merthyr road and I think we are somewhere south of the town, down Treforest way. The bus carries a healthy load in this late afternoon shot, with people starting to come home from work. Warm day by the look of it. The driver travels with the door open and every one of those unusual double hopper vents is open.
Ponty, 1978.
I find, on consulting the reverse of the original print, not the expected details of vehicle, date and place, recorded in my clerkly hand, but a carte blanche. The usual explanation was that a bus was too new when photographed to have yet appeared in any of the fleet lists at my disposal. This vehicle, however, had completed almost six years' service when photographed at Pontypridd on Friday 22nd September 1978. A mystery then. It may have been that I simply didn't consider the photo effort-worthy. Now, nicely scanned and becomingly cropped, it looks much better than the print ever did.
The bus ...I have had to look it up at Bus Lists... was an AEC Reliance 6MU4R with Willowbrook body. The flyover must carry the main A470 Cardiff-Merthyr road and I think we are somewhere south of the town, down Treforest way. The bus carries a healthy load in this late afternoon shot, with people starting to come home from work. Warm day by the look of it. The driver travels with the door open and every one of those unusual double hopper vents is open.