I kind of like the B57, only because of the good looking lights
and the big radiator in front. Well its not that big (not like a
Scania 143 tractor), but it looks very special compared to other
buses that were around my area that time like the CRB (to which as
a kid compare a bus with or without a radiator in front).
Somehow remember that the B57 have brown color 'PVC' seats and
metal hand grips on top of the seat itself.
After they were retired, then the CRB moved in and I moved out
of that area to see Mark Three and Atlantean, before the old double
decks were too replaced by VO2X buses.
Atlantean buses have this nolstalgic 'grong-grong grong-grong'
sound that I think many bus fans of that era will never forget. It
is etched so hard in my head that when I see a VO2X, I can imagine
hearing that sound and a red color wheel spinning at the back of
the bus, inside of the left side engine cover (should be a
component of the timing belts). Of course the buses look very
different and sound very different.
I remember so vividly the pneumocyclic gearbox the Leylands used...
lovely loud roaring noises that strangely, I find it soothing to my
ears.
