A warm welcome to my new Blog, which will describe the antics, trials and tribulations with my new enterprise, Replica Transport Graphics.
As a preserved bus owner in the distant-past, I knew how difficult it was to obtain accurate lettering and logotypes that my bus cried out for. I took it onto myself to try to not only reproduce the lettering and logos that my bus needed, but to also provide that service to other preservationists who were in the same boat that I was.
Working at the time in a Reprographics Studio within a large Screen Printers, I had ready access to a very accurate camera (useful for copying vintage obsolete original transfers), and a large amount of typesetting equipment, together with scalpels and Amberlith (again useful for creating filmwork). It was only a matter of time before reproduction National Bus Company identifiers, logos, and legal lettering began emanating from my corner of the darkroom!.
It wasn't long before my humble services were made available to other preservationists, although at the time my efforts produced what seem now (with the passage of time) to be somewhat unpolished. I unfortunately sold my bus back in 2001, and two years later left the printers to start a new life in another part of the country, in different professions...
Moving forwards now 15 years, I have just purchased another bus, with the full blessing of my Wife and children (!), and have decided to try and continue where I left-off in 2001. My new venture now has a name - Replica Transport Graphics -
I've already produced several reproduction vinyls which are proving of use to the preserved bus movement, I plan to expand greatly, possibly to include the heritage railway sector.
"What about your bus?", I hear you say... It will not surprise any of you who know me, that it is a Bristol RE, indeed now rather a special one, as she is the sole-survivor from her fleet.
She is registered GHB 148N, and was the final delivery to Aberdare Urban District Council, in South Wales, in 1974.
Chassis No. - RESL-8-413
Body No. - 21477, Series II
Her Fleet History is viewable here - http://bcv.robsly.com/ghb148n.html
This concludes my introductory post, please stay tuned for further updates!.
As a preserved bus owner in the distant-past, I knew how difficult it was to obtain accurate lettering and logotypes that my bus cried out for. I took it onto myself to try to not only reproduce the lettering and logos that my bus needed, but to also provide that service to other preservationists who were in the same boat that I was.
Working at the time in a Reprographics Studio within a large Screen Printers, I had ready access to a very accurate camera (useful for copying vintage obsolete original transfers), and a large amount of typesetting equipment, together with scalpels and Amberlith (again useful for creating filmwork). It was only a matter of time before reproduction National Bus Company identifiers, logos, and legal lettering began emanating from my corner of the darkroom!.
It wasn't long before my humble services were made available to other preservationists, although at the time my efforts produced what seem now (with the passage of time) to be somewhat unpolished. I unfortunately sold my bus back in 2001, and two years later left the printers to start a new life in another part of the country, in different professions...
Moving forwards now 15 years, I have just purchased another bus, with the full blessing of my Wife and children (!), and have decided to try and continue where I left-off in 2001. My new venture now has a name - Replica Transport Graphics -
"What about your bus?", I hear you say... It will not surprise any of you who know me, that it is a Bristol RE, indeed now rather a special one, as she is the sole-survivor from her fleet.
Chassis No. - RESL-8-413
Body No. - 21477, Series II
Her Fleet History is viewable here - http://bcv.robsly.com/ghb148n.html
This concludes my introductory post, please stay tuned for further updates!.
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