Many thanks to Richard Adderson for making these photographs from his collection available for everyone to see.
VRs advertising "Canadian Pacific" (VR282) and "Interlink Express Parcels" (PCL 255W) make a colourful sight outside Wymondham railway station on 14/2/87. Trains were terminating here whilst the swing bridge at Trowse was being renewed, and the buses formed the connections to and from Norwich.
Few Eastern Counties Leyland Nationals carried all over adverts. An exception was UVF 624X, seen here at Norwich bus station on 17/3/89 advertising "Cookes of Fakenham".
In the spring of 1974, the photographer managed a distant and snatched shot of FLF457 (JPW 457D) advertising Solid Fuel Heating in Thorpe St.Andrew, on the outskirts of Norwich. He never caught up with it for a better photo!
One of the VRs transferred from Scotland, VR307 (LFS 280F) bore an advertisement for "Courage Ales" between July 1973 and September 1974. Here it is at Norwich Bus Station open day in September 1973, keeping company with OVF 227, one of the very early Lodekkas.
Promoting the "Eastern Evening News", VR259, RAH 259W, makes its way along Plumstead Road East, on the outskirts of Norwich, on 3rd March 1984. A few lower deck passengers provide the heads for the painted bodies.
BVG 223T (VR 223) stands outside Cremorne Lane works in Norwich on 9th April 1984, immediately prior to losing the "Phoenix Assurance" livery it had carried since June 1981.
By contrast, XNG 205S (VR 205) was newly painted to publicise Norwich Energy Action, when photographed in Norwich bus station on 17th March 1989.
Advertising "Radio Broadland" VR PCL 251W is all scrubbed up for display at a bus rally at the Norfolk Showground on 9th September1984.
A Leyland National contrasts with traditional bus design on Castle Meadow, Norwich, in 1973.
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