Glasgow Buses Through the Lens of Iain MacGregor

The late chairman of Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust (GVVT) Iain MacGregor's photography of Glasgow Corporation and Greater Glasgow PTE buses between 1960 and 1979 is drawn upon for this picture album. He worked in colour when many were still using black & white and his early photographs include unique or rare views of some vehicle types in the full majesty of the liveries they wore. Glasgow was simplifying its livery then for spray painting, experimenting with or exhausting stocks of shades of yellow or orange, and partially repainting buses in combinations of old and new. Motorbuses also were replacing trams and trolleybuses, and the older Albion Venturers and Daimler CVD6s were being replaced by Leyland Atlanteans, joined in the 1970s by Ailsas and Metropolitans. There also were visits from manufacturers' demonstrators and the passing appearances of Atlanteans in overall advertising liveries. This selection, one per landscape page, captures all this against the background of an also changing city.