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[EyesWeldedShut]

Ayr, 1974/75 - Western SMT town service Heathfield > Glencairn > Heathfield
Somebody popped this up on FaceAche and the Saab in front of the Cortina was thought to belong to my uncle - until I pointed out his was a saloon,

[EyesWeldedShut]

Bit more Western SMT - couple of years later, double deckers gone - these instead - Lovely*Leyland Leopards

[MiniMinorMk3]

On 08/01/2024 at 17:01, martc said:

A couple more photos of one of the 1955 Citroën U55 Cityrama sightseeing buses as discussed previously.

Bit of history here

Vintage Photos of Citroën U55 Cityrama Currus, the World’s Finest Bus Ever Built ~ Vintage Everyday

[rattlecan]

They reminded me of the ‘cinema’ type things.

I think the government used them as sort of public information things

seem to remember some guy restored one (the one in the pic here) at huge expense 

[Mr Pastry]

30 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Bit of history here

See also the 1964 film The Last Steps/Les Pas Perdus,  which has a scene shot on the top deck of a Cityrama.  And other interesting old French stuff.

[martc]

The Likin bus plant which produced LiAZ busses. These are model 677's, being made in 1975. Looks a pretty grim place. The final product -

[Remspoor]

Got suggested a video the other day of Unitrans RTs. A bus service which runs around  a campus of University of California, Davis. All driven by the  students.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitrans

[SunnySouth]

On 14/01/2024 at 16:42, Remspoor said:

Got suggested a video the other day of Unitrans RTs. A bus service which runs around  a campus of University of California, Davis. All driven by the  students.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitrans

Did they re-import all these back to the UK a fair few years back now?

[Yoss]

Some Skoda trolleybuses in Brno.

This is the turning circle at the end of route 36 which, I think is the northern most point for any tram or trolleybus in the city.

as you can see, it is all fields from here.

The last part of the route to get here is through a communist era housing estate. Lots of flats, but very well kept looking ones.

[martc]

NuT and Gateshead in the olden days...

[cms206]

On 11/01/2024 at 21:32, EyesWeldedShut said:

Bit more Western SMT - couple of years later, double deckers gone - these instead - Lovely*Leyland Leopards

Lovelier still - that's not a Leopard, it's a Seddon Pennine VII, one of many that Western took alongside Leopards between 1976 and 1980.

[martc]

A Soviet LAZ 697M in Hungary; which is strange as they had their own, very successful Icarus concern, there's the booty of an Icarus 55 in the background. The Soviet interloper could be a result of some inter bloc trading - 1 coach = 1,000,000 bottles of Bulls Blood or tins of goulash.

[martc]

[martc]

A ZIS 16 in Vladimir, 1946, quite British looking.

[Joey spud]

Triple decker anyone ? 😁

[martc]

Waterloo station, February 1911.

[martc]

A Renault TN4 HP 'Autobus'.

[Remspoor]

On 19/01/2024 at 02:26, SunnySouth said:

Did they re-import all these back to the UK a fair few years back now?

I do not know. I am under the impression that these were heavily modified with US motors and auto gearboxes, plus exterior lights and interiors have been changed. They may not be worth much if they were returned to Blighty.

[Remspoor]

Eindhoven buses.

The bus station which is next to the Eindhoven Centraal train station.

Inside a Citea SLFA-181 bus. On the way into the city centre rode in the front section. on the way out of the centre rode in what is called the trailer. There is a huge difference in ride. The bus is far better.

 

[martc]

[DVee8]

Another that belonged to my FiL

[High Jetter]

Not the best res pic, but taken at Wolverhampton Bus Station, date unknown.

[busmansholiday]

On 19/01/2024 at 01:26, SunnySouth said:

Did they re-import all these back to the UK a fair few years back now?

 

On 21/01/2024 at 14:01, Remspoor said:

I do not know. I am under the impression that these were heavily modified with US motors and auto gearboxes, plus exterior lights and interiors have been changed. They may not be worth much if they were returned to Blighty.

No, the ones that came back were from Prince Edward Island, off Newfoundland.

Those RTs are mechanically heavily modified. They had petrol then gas engines, think one might even be battery powered now.

[martc]

So here we have an Icarus 260 in Uzbekistan, Bukhara 1994. Nice.

A LAZ-695N, nice.

[martc]

In contrast with the simple lines of the Eastern vehicles, let's move south and west ...

Pegaso gin palaces 'excursion' coaches -

 

[busmansholiday]

2 hours ago, martc said:

In contrast with the simple lines of the Eastern vehicles, let's move south and west ...

Pegaso gin palaces 'excursion' coaches -

 

The top one isn't a Pegaso. It has an AEC style badge on the front and appears to be Portuguese registered. I'd therefore guess it's a UTIC chassis as UTIC assembled AEC chassis's in Portugal under licence.and used a modified AEC badge. Bodywork is possibly Caetano or Ayates 

 

EDIT, web pic says Ayats bodied Pegaso, ha, ha. Look closely at the destination display and the manufacturers badge is either side of it. Whilst it's not that clear, I'd say that says "Salvador" to the left of the display and "Caetano" to the right.

[Asimo]

I wish I hadn’t watched this just before bedtime, nightmare!

 

[LightBulbFun]

I didn't know AEC made bendy buses!

(ever since I followed @Inspector Morose's Facebook page, most of my "Suggested for you" posts from facebook have been about vintage buses, its great ) 

[martc]

On 23/01/2024 at 21:23, busmansholiday said:

The top one isn't a Pegaso. It has an AEC style badge on the front and appears to be Portuguese registered. I'd therefore guess it's a UTIC chassis as UTIC assembled AEC chassis's in Portugal under licence.and used a modified AEC badge. Bodywork is possibly Caetano or Ayates 

 

EDIT, web pic says Ayats bodied Pegaso, ha, ha. Look closely at the destination display and the manufacturers badge is either side of it. Whilst it's not that clear, I'd say that says "Salvador" to the left of the display and "Caetano" to the right.

Yeah, it does look like an AEC badge, I was trusting in the internets description and didn't look as carefully as you. But your detective work has led me to Ayats, who started bus building in 1905 and are still with us... they do alsorts - coaches, double deck coaches, double deck coaches with a roll back roof, night coaches with beds, public service double deckers oh and land trains.

And mobile restaurants, like the one I posted about earlier when we were discussing panoramic roofs, are made by Ayats.

https://ayats.es/en/home

 

[Joey spud]

I have a soft spot for these old M+D Atlanteans and Fleetlines as they transported me to and from secondary school in the early eighties. This one was withdrawn from service in 1981 and moved onto an independent in Ramsgate and photographed here in '98.

Fast forward twenty-five years and she is now sleeping in an overgrown yard south of Tonbridge with a fellow M+D Fleetline.

It seems such a shame that these once preserved and cherished buses have now been left to sink into the ground and get taken over by nature.