Thursday 10 February 2011

Mayflower Link returns!


With thanks to Tom Pearce I can bring you these great photos of LR02 LYU, the first of this batch to be put into the new improved Mayflower Link livery. I did fear this would be lost, along with the T-LLC Trident's departure down south, but thankfully the livery is making a return. I must admit, against many people's views, I'm all for branding, as long as its done well. Of course the old Blue Line, Purple Line etc that used to be used in Plymouth did very little for the image and gave the public very little to take in and take note of. Tamar Link, the first 'proper' branding to be applied worked a treat. How in the world could you ignore a big pink brand new bus? It did the job perfectly even if the livery can be controversial, but weirdly, it does grow on you! 


The Mayflower Link 93 livery though has been by far my favorite branding that any company has used, let alone FDC. The colors are, simple but bold, and tie in perfectly with the scenery, through the medium of wave like blue streaks down the side and green underlay. Truly magnificent. There are some slight changed to the old livery in that the font for the main writing has changed slightly on the front panel. There is also the addition of more green to the rear, and the blue wave now continues right up the back of the bus to support a new ship logo, very smart indeed, though the green may be slightly excessive, though I'm sure it will look better with a bit of fading after a few months! I have included some photos of the older version of the livery below for comparison. 


6 comments:

Anonymous said...

hello Laurence

A bit of breaking news about pcb. The new livery for pcb is ready and bus 67 has been all spayed up. It has two shades of red, one similar to the current colour and the other is marroon. its spilt by a white stripe similar to the one used by stagecoach only curving towards the front of the bus.

Anonymous said...

I think Laurence needs to do some investigation work, lol :)

Anonymous said...

This is of course, just a copy of FHDs Jurassic Coast X53 livery!

Laurence Mayhew said...

Ah thank you! I shall keep a look out for it! Keen to see that.

Yes indeed fair comment! Interestingly though, they 'were' different subsidiaries of First Group at the time. Of course they are merged now, but interesting that they did copy FHD's livery to begin within. I'd say the choice of color scheme is better though, even though it uses the same template!

Rob said...

new pics of dart 67:-

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10150108397914260&set=a.10150108397494260.288260.199718759259&theater

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10150108397664260&set=a.10150108397494260.288260.199718759259&theater

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10150108397559260&set=a.10150108397494260.288260.199718759259&theater

Rob said...

Turns out 67 used to carry an ad for the The New China Garden