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KAL580, the much photographed 1948 CVD6 DD3 of W Gash & Sons, Newark, with Massey H33/28RD body of 1958, is pictured here in Huntingdon Street Bus Station, Nottingham.
This was in the third week of August 1961, when, as an ATC cadet on Summer Camp at RAF Swinderby, I had travelled on this splendid bus from Newark on our ‘day off’. The return trip was made on CVG6 DD10, RAL795, which I was unable to photograph owing to severe pressures of time in the bustle of the evening rush hour.

This picture has other associations for me as it was my initial foray into colour film with my then recently acquired first really good 35 mm camera. The shot was taken on Perutz film that, on receipt from the processing lab had a curious purplish cast (which Photoshop can now correct) and rendered images sharply. Sadly Perutz was soon taken over by Agfa whose films did not impress me to the same extent, and Kodak Kodachrome became my preferred, albeit expensive, choice.

Photo taken by Roger Cox, August 1961, Huntingdon Street Bus Station, Nottingham

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