Jake's Bus Bits : A Look At Liveries
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- Опубликовано: 27 фев 2024
- Hello and welcome to another episode of Jake's Bus Bits.
In this episode I'll be looking at the colours that buses have come in over the years.
There's been some really lovely liveries over the years as well as some perilous paint jobs which don't really do a huge amount for the bus or coach wearing it.
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Lovely to see one of the CPPTD TD4s, the Portsmouth livery up to 73 was so classy.
Fascinating and nostalgic! The old municipal companies had pride in the appearance of their fleets, and the distinctive liveries reflected local civic pride in their respective towns and cities that is long gone in these bland corporate days.
I watched a short documentary on Talking Pictures TV the other day about university rag weeks in the early 1960s and there was some colour footage of Kingston upon Hull, featuring their amazing blue and white liveried buses - mid-blue with a white "swoosh" up the sides. Very avante-garde for the time.
I was pleased that Go-Ahead allowed its bus companies to keep their own names and corporate identities. You can definitely see a ‘family connection’ but it’s better than the 1 livery fits all of some companies. In my opinion, the worst corporate livery was First group, but now they are giving buses identities relating to where they operate.
Seeing today’s buses in original liveries looks amazing and demonstrates that these liveries are just as good now as they were then.
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A motorway coach should be a Midland Red C5 with lantern front windows. If one of those went past you at a rock-solid 80 mph on the M1 in 1960, you had mighty respect. They looked good too.
Brilliant vehicle! I seem to remember that Corgi toys produced an excellent model of the C5. It was too expensive for me to buy as a kid though!
Swindon Corporation livery was lovely. It changed to reverse blue and cream when it became Thamesdown Transport . Okay to start with, but with more cream they showed the dirt more. It was better later when the blue was made darker and used more.
The grean and cream livery was the standard British Electric Traction livery. It was seen on Maidstone and District. BET owned the Southern Rialway, and holiday trains and camping coaches were also finished in this livery! Thanks for uploading.
Yes agree NBC when new looked great ,in London I loved the livery with yellow doors and white upper deck windows also the PTEs Tyne and Wear and GMPTE was nice as was WMPTE ,as for private etc the livery we had at London United with its grey upper looked superb on a fresh repainted metro
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I remember when Eastern National changed the cream band to white on their Lodekkas. However, they didn't change the window rubbers which were also cream and it always looked a bit odd.
Mulleys Motorways in Suffolk run a fleet of buses which are plain orange. They also used to run a fleet of coaches which were dayglo orange similar to Dyno-rod. I don't think the coach business survived the pandemic.
Tees and district red and yellow livery epic there did similar arriva style before arriva north east was created
was always a fan of lct, bradford and west riding and not forgetting my own yorkshire woollen
The later Stagecoach livery looked 1000% better than the older one. Very creative. They needed to be!
Sydney's metropolitan private family run bus scene had some amazing livery combinations up until large companies took over the smaller ones in the 2000s and a uniform blue and white chevron scheme infected them all. Looks OK but very ubiquitous.
PS loved the hubbo on the Bristol!
I'm first to look!!! Love liverys
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Shout out for Southend Corporation/Southend Transport liveries, and Arriva painting examples of their fleet in the livery of operators of the past in the Southend area (which look and suit the buses so VERY well).
Southend was a very fresh and clean looking livery.
You commented on National Express coaches, and their potential to get covered in crud due to the white livery. I worked for NBC in the late 1970s, and the group had conducted trials of different colour schemes for just this reason. White was selected as the LEAST BAD option, since mud was far more visibly obvious on darker colours.
Also, NBC had at least one subsidiary that did not follow the red-or-green regime; it used blue, and operated in South Wales. Sorry, can't remember the name.
Very interesting. I think black is the worst for road grime isn't it?
Here in the West Midlands, the land of the stunning BCT and WBC liveries, NXWM are in the middle of replacing our very smart two tone red livery and gold swoops with a single tone all over dark grey. With a red diagonal stripe (that’s covered by adverts anyway). It’s even worse than when WMT replaced a nice blue and cream with a dull blue and grey in the late 80s
As an "exiled" Brummie, I've come to realise how classy the BCT livery of cream and navy blue with a matte khaki roof looked. The buses were generally kept very clean and were very rarely seen with dented panels or scratched paintwork. For me, a real bus is either in that livery or is scarlet red all over a la Midland Red. Ironically, the "red" London bus has only been overall red in relatively recent times. In the 1950s LT double deck vehicles were red with a cream band, and in the 1960s and 70s the band was light grey. But the vast majority of Midland Reds were "simply red"!
In 1968 LT painted a handful of Routemasters in all-over red livery, omitting the cream, or, by that time, the flake grey 'tween decks band. The change was not well received by the public. Incidentally, whilst RTs received flake grey bands from April 1965, they never received the white bands later applied to other members of the fleet.
best livery in the deregulation era in Scotland was Kelvin Scottish blue and yellow
Now They Lease Them In A Basic Colour Then Get Them Wrapped
When buses were looked altered not a battered state like some
10:39 what bus is this?
Bristol VR