New Colours For First Buses In South Yorkshire

[RollingJ]

5 minutes ago, YorkieontheTyne said:

No harm done pal. But getting back on track do you remember in the old days of the blue and ivory livery when the first all over advert bus for The Star appeared? All red and blue diagonal wavy lines?

Then the all over advert for Fletchers bread with the bus painted up like a loaf of bread. You could even see the edges of the greaseproof wrapping paper on the front and back.

Don't recall the Fletchers one, but do have vague memories of 'The Star'.

[cressida]

Steel gray is relevant to Sheffield.

[Resident]

1 minute ago, cressida said:

Steel gray is relevant to Sheffield.

Maybe if it had been a band in the middle

[YorkieontheTyne]

14 minutes ago, Resident said:

Maybe if it had been a band in the middle

Yep. I see that, and maybe with a band of Hendos orange in there as well.

[horribleblob]

2 hours ago, RollingJ said:

Most of it is blue.

It looks purple on my screens (phone and monitor). Perhaps I need to recalibrate.

[RollingJ]

18 minutes ago, horribleblob said:

It looks purple on my screens (phone and monitor). Perhaps I need to recalibrate.

Might be purple - I'm in a darkish room at the moment.

[Resident]

3 hours ago, YorkieontheTyne said:

Hmm. “A common livery that’s a historical nod, or relevant to the area”. So would that be Sheffield corporation, or Rotherham, or Doncaster, or one of the SYPTE iterations, or SYT, or Mainline or one of the independents swallowed up since 1986 then?

AFAIK there are already some buses done with internal liveries with area specific links. 

[YorkieontheTyne]

12 minutes ago, Resident said:

AFAIK there are already some buses done with internal liveries with area specific links. 

Thanks, I’m aware of that Resident. I was responding to the post by Neal M about his idea regarding a new livery that acknowledges the predecessors of First and pointing out how many previous liveries there are to choose from. A good idea but where do you begin.

[Neal M]

6 hours ago, YorkieontheTyne said:

Hmm. “A common livery that’s a historical nod, or relevant to the area”. So would that be Sheffield corporation, or Rotherham, or Doncaster, or one of the SYPTE iterations, or SYT, or Mainline or one of the independents swallowed up since 1986 then?

I’m a big fan of the late 70’s/early 80’s coffee and cream look, so that was the historical nod I was alluding to. I really disliked the red and yellow that came later.

 

As you say, the individual corporations had different liveries, so they wouldn’t work for a unified service.

[RollingJ]

I wish Stagecoach would get themselves a better livery as well - the current one is horrible.