Part of the recovery after a fairly serious accident involving the bus and an artic.
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The Matador was the ideal chassis for bus recovery tender and many bus companies that ran them went to a lot of trouble to rebuild the ex-WD machines with stylish cabs and bodywork. Almost all models had a different design, which could be look like t
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Reg 9725 Year 1962 Fleet Number 725 Chassis AEC Bridgemaster Engine AEC Body Park Royal Big Bus Day
Routemaster 60th Anniversary, Finsbury Park London. July 2014
Former City of Salford fire appliance. Is the guy on the ladder looking for potholes?
For the average British holidaymaker, their introduction to Portugal is via the resort towns on the Algarve. So it was for me, but for a whistle stop 'grice' of Lisbon during a plane change when returning from South Africa in 1984. The country had been recommended to me as a possible place to find AECs as it had had a long association with the marque, not only in Municipal fleets, but particularly with the Portuguese national bus company RN. My first of about a dozen visits for the purpose was in 1995 and I was frankly amazed by the sheer numbers I was able to find even then, sixteen years after Southall shut. Again like most general tourists we flew into Faro where the principal provider of bus services, EVA Transportes, still had many mid and rear engined AECs on fleet strength. 'EVA was the operator who took on virtually all the southern area of the country when the Rodoviario National (RN) was privatised. In the above picture a typical mid to late '70s rear engined UTIC/AEC integral sits on Faro bus station's lay-over park, it would have been built using Swift '760 running units. The livery is basically still the orange and white of RN.
