jjr1970 Posted July 9, 2006 Share #1 Posted July 9, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Leica/M7/Summilux 50mm/Summicron 90mm/Kodak Tri-x Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 Hi jjr1970, Take a look here Saurer. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
lambroving Posted July 9, 2006 Share #2 Posted July 9, 2006 Nice. What is the background on this beast? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlancasterd Posted July 9, 2006 Share #3 Posted July 9, 2006 I assume that this is a preserved Post Bus? If so it would have been nice to have seen it in colour... A couple of questions - Where is it based, and is Saurer still in business? I got the impression from the displays in the Luzern Transport Museum a couple of years ago that they no longer make buses. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted July 9, 2006 Share #4 Posted July 9, 2006 Nice. What is the background on this beast? Looks like it's in Holland, somewhere. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted July 9, 2006 Share #5 Posted July 9, 2006 Holland, as Andy says I guess, yet it's right hand drive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilyum Posted July 10, 2006 Share #6 Posted July 10, 2006 Lovely pictures and excellent monochrome rendition. Nice work, JJR. Best regards, Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bernd Banken Posted July 10, 2006 Share #7 Posted July 10, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) It must be the dutch coast or some inner lake because at the left side you can see a mast which belongs to a typical dutch "Botter" or similar 'flatbottom-ship'. Flatbottom for scratching over the bottom of channels and other undeep areas. And now some dutch words: Het is en heel goede photo van deze bus uit Oostenrijk. Tot ziens Bernd Edit: There is a traffic sign to inform about a towbridge ahead. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest flatfour Posted July 10, 2006 Share #8 Posted July 10, 2006 Saurer was a Swiss truck builder and I think the picture is taken in Switzerland. Isn't a BE registration from Berne ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm1912 Posted July 10, 2006 Share #9 Posted July 10, 2006 I have no idea where this could be. But I'm liking the photography very much. Interesting subject and great contrast. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlancasterd Posted July 10, 2006 Share #10 Posted July 10, 2006 Saurer was a Swiss truck builder and I think the picture is taken in Switzerland. Isn't a BE registration from Berne ? It's almost certainly a Swiss postal bus - see the posthorn symbol on the front. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted July 10, 2006 Share #11 Posted July 10, 2006 Swiss postal bus, also used in Austria. Right hand driven not because of a left hand traffic, but because of the difficult, narrow mountain-tracks (as a bus driver from the alpes told me). I should have an old color-shot in my archive. Saurer stopped the truck-production back in 1987. These photos appear to be dutch origin (also see the background!). The numberplate could be swiss ("BERN"), but could ALSO be DUTCH, they had these plate-design back in the 50´s till early 80´s. A lot of old cars in the netherlands still has them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest flatfour Posted July 10, 2006 Share #12 Posted July 10, 2006 Saurer trucks were made in Lindau in Switzerland and were taken over by MAN in the early years of this century. I think they were eventually completely bought by MAN in the 1980s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted July 10, 2006 Share #13 Posted July 10, 2006 Saurer was settled in Arbon/Switzerland. They gave up their own production back in 1982, founded the NAW under the leadership of Mercedes to build the last 1.200 ordered Saurer trucks. The last civil Saurer had been delivered in ´83. The last military Saurer had been built in 1987. In the 70´s they had a cooperation with Leyland-DAB for some bus-projects. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bernd Banken Posted July 10, 2006 Share #14 Posted July 10, 2006 The carplate is an old dutch one. It's dark blue with white letters. When you see an old Volvo, Benz or DAF with such kind of plate, the owner doesn't have to pay car tax due to the age of the car and the amount of tax he payed in the liftime for this car. Regards Bernd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjr1970 Posted July 10, 2006 Author Share #15 Posted July 10, 2006 Hi there, a took a little while to respond but the photo was made in Holland-Zoutkamp. Thank to all about your comments. Cheers, Ronald Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted July 10, 2006 Share #16 Posted July 10, 2006 Hi there, a took a little while to respond but the photo was made in Holland-Zoutkamp. Thank to all about your comments. Cheers, Ronald Told you! (I like to think that I know my European number plates It always amazed me how Holland could have the required number of letter/number combinations with so few digits... Must be all those bikes... ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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