Tear it off!
1987.
A saucy group reveal of new livery for a Bombardier double decker as Dublin Bus emerges out of CIE.
Name those dignitaries, anyone?
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Tear it off!
1987.
A saucy group reveal of new livery for a Bombardier double decker as Dublin Bus emerges out of CIE.
Name those dignitaries, anyone?
Jim Mitchell & CJ. Don’t recognise the man in the middle.
Malcolm?
Jim Mitchell and Charlie Haughey
Don’t know who the lad sangwiched in between them is
Probably a CIE / Dublin Bus big wig
Jim Mitchell, with massive eyewear.
Bring back green buses. The blue and yellow ones are hideous.
Unfortunately that’ll never happen…it’s all down to the NTA now,they want to make one generic colour scheme across it’s whole fleet.
It’s looking like the colour scheme on the Go-Ahead buses is the preferd choice so it will eventually be rolled out over everything with the TFI/NTA mark.
Is that Haughey far right.
Also I think that’s him third from the left.
PJ Mara (CJ’s sidekick) in the middle?
No Mara was taller and thinner. Also liked to stay behind the scenes I believe.
Definitely not Mara
They should have taken the photos on the other side of the bus so that whooshy new logo doesn’t look like it is travelling backwards, which it does
One job
I don’t think that Charlie Haughey is in that picture
It’s certainly not Haughey!
Haughey would hardly stand back and smile while a Fine Gael-er launched a bus fleet. Haughey was in opposition when Mitchell was Minister for Transport under a Fine Gael / Labour coalition government. Haughey presided over the 25th Dáil from March 1987 when FF won the election in the February. This photograph must have been taken before the transition of power.
Andrew Maxwell far right….
Paul Conlon chairman of CIE next to Jim Mitchell