This blog is supposed to be about buses as well as boats, so to continue the "50 years ago" theme here is a photo of a new bus that I took in Manchester just over fifty years ago, on 27th January 1971
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| A Manchester bus 1971 |
I find it remarkable that that bus was new fifty years ago. With a contemporary livery, some updated styling and the removal of the centre door (outside London a short-lived 1970s fad) it could pass for a new bus today.
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| A Manchester bus today |
Buses haven't really changed very much in the last fifty years. Certainly a lot less than they changed in the previous fifty.
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| Not a Manchester bus, but they wouldn't have been very different in 1921. |
Writing this has made me wonder what buses will look like in 2071, but I don't suppose I'll ever know!
2 comments:
There was a very wide mixture of buses in and around Manchester 50 years ago. Compare a Salford Daimler CVG6 with exposed radiator with a 'Mancunian' - it was starkly different.
You are right of course, Steve. But I was comparing new buses from each era.
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