National Bus Manual
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Project to reprint the National Bus Company’s classic 1972-76 Corporate Identity Manual. Modernism heading up your street.
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Out now: @modernistmag 44 with a piece on graphic designer Norman Wilson. His pioneering Manchester practice brought striking modernist graphics to industial Britain, famously the once-ubiquitous corporate identity for the National Bus Company. More here: nationalbusmanual.com/2022/09/17/a-m…
A fantastic evening in Manchester talking about graphic design and transport at @modernistmag x @bdp_com along with @_doublearrow, whose new book ‘Arrows of desire’ is superb. Thanks @just_some_fella and friends for organising it.
NBC chair Fred Wood meets drivers Ray Faulkner (United Counties) and George Aitken (Yorkshire Traction) at the General Managers’ conference in Leicester, Oct 1972. They’d brought vehicles to display in the new identity. More on the blog -> nationalbusmanual.com/2022/07/19/a-r…
Leaf green - but which leaf? (Spoiler: none of these is right!) More from my experiments with matching shades of green to both the NBC spec from the Corporate Identity Manual, paint codes, NBC printed diagrams and the shades we know from photographs.
Sincere thanks to Ipswich Transport Museum’s Mark Smith for showing me around, and for a close look at their immaculately preserved Lodekka LFS 125, in perfect NBC poppy red. #IpswichTransportMuseum #easterncountiesomnibuscompany #NationalBusCompany #FuturaTypeface
Was happy to get a few shots of the two Devon General buses together at the Kingsbridge vintage bus day on Saturday. Looking great in their NBC era liveries. ❤❤ @BusManual
Southern Vectis dual purpose Bristol LH, originally with Timpsons (National Travel SE). White radiator not entirely consistent with @BusManual ? 📷 me 1979
Hants & Dorset ex King Alfred Leyland Panther UOU418H on an early King Alfred Memorial Tour in Winchester. Sister vehicles 417 and 419 now owned by @FoKAB1985 📷 me
1975: One of the 1964 built Routemasters operating for Northern General is pictured crossing the Tyne Bridge. This one displays the Poppy Red of NBC 📸 flic.kr/p/dyWtTz
1976: Marlborough Crescent Bus Station, #Newcastle upon Tyne 📸 Trevor Ermel
Aldershot bus station. A sea of NBC @BusManual Poppy Red. A Dennis Loline, Nationals and a dual door RE hidden behind the post. 📷 me 1978
The sun’s turning up the heat today - so here’s a 1973 graphic used to advertise NBC’s holidays abroad by coach (this is from Midland Red’s edition). It demonstrates Norman Wilson’s ‘N-and-shadow’ really well, in the summer sun. #nationalbuscompany #normanwilsondesigner
Saw this example on the back of a Bristol RE at the Bournemouth bus rally.
With Welsh language fleetname "Cymru Cenedlaethol" on the offside. 🏴
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