[TRIVIA]: Unfortunate branding on local buses

[bussnapperwm]

Living in the Black Country and seeing "Travel Express" on a Carlyle bodied dart, "Let's Go" on a Optare Esteem or "Coastal Liner" on a MCW Metrobus was kinda funny

I remember this raising a few eyebrows a few years ago in the Cardiff area

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(Attached photo shows the rear end of bus YJ15AOT, depicting a lady holding up a sign which says "Ride me all day for £3")

Diamond West Midlands did a ad for one of their routes in Worcester in the late 2000s with a lady depicted in it wearing a 'naughty nurse' outfit which also raised a few eyebrows

Ooooh Matron! Upset nurses demand bus company removes 'demeaning' advert promoting bus route to hospital

Diamond Bus Company describes the advert - which features a blonde wearing a figure-hugging Ann Summers-style dress - as harmless fun designed to promote a route serving a hospital.

www.dailymail.co.uk

A bus company has today rejected calls to remove an advert featuring a sexy 'matron' from its vehicles over claims that it demeans the nursing profession.

The West Midlands-based Diamond Bus Company described the advert - which features a blonde wearing a figure-hugging Ann Summers-style dress alongside the slogan 'Oooooh matron!' - as harmless fun designed to promote a route serving a hospital.

But nursing representatives and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has called on the company to axe the 'degrading' image from the back of its buses

 

[DunsBus]

The short-lived Yorkbus had a rather unfortunate strapline: "Your money goes further with us".

Yorkbus went bust after 32 days.

 

[PG]

The short-lived Yorkbus had a rather unfortunate strapline: "Your money goes further with us".

Yorkbus went bust after 32 days.

Presumably not many folk agreed! I guess a suffix on Yorkbus of the letter t would have been accurate...

 

[DunsBus]

Presumably not many folk agreed! I guess a suffix on Yorkbus of the letter t would have been accurate...

Oddly enough, that's what I dubbed Yorkbus following its demise - Yorkbust.

 

[pinkmarie80]

The Beaver Bus in Leicestershire always made me giggle. First it was Catch the Beaver- then it changed to Ride The Beaver which seemed to stick around for an uncomfortably long time

 

[WAB]

TrustyBus (also known as rustybus) in Essex and Hertfordshire had a reputation for terrible reliability and vehicles which were falling apart. Unfortunate indeed.

 

[busestrains]

They went bust in 2016 but there used to be a bus company in Yorkshire called "Ladies Only Travel" operating around the Bradford and Brighouse and Huddersfield and Leeds areas.

I understand they started as a taxi company where they only employed female taxi drivers which is where their name came from. But then they expanded in to local bus services but kept the same name. Funnily almost all of their bus drivers were men. I never saw any women driving their buses.

But personally i think it was a terrible name for a bus company. Some people actually thought only female passengers were permitted onboard. I remember at one of the bus stations they had a sign up telling customers that "Ladies Only Travel" services are open to all male and female passengers. They really should have picked a new name when they expanded from taxi services to bus services.

 

[Steddenm]

They went bust in 2016 but there used to be a bus company in Yorkshire called "Ladies Only Travel" operating around the Bradford and Brighouse and Huddersfield and Leeds areas.

I understand they started as a taxi company where they only employed female taxi drivers which is where their name came from. But then they expanded in to local bus services but kept the same name. Funnily almost all of their bus drivers were men. I never saw any women driving their buses.

But personally i think it was a terrible name for a bus company. Some people actually thought only female passengers were permitted onboard. I remember at one of the bus stations they had a sign up telling customers that "Ladies Only Travel" services are open to all male and female passengers. They really should have picked a new name when they expanded from taxi services to bus services.

Ladies Only Travel - as a taxi company - was the inspiration for the BBC One comedy-drama series Candy Cabs starring Jo Joyner (Tanya from EastEnders, still set in West Yorkshire, but filmed in Manchester. It only lasted one series.

 

[Deerfold]

They went bust in 2016 but there used to be a bus company in Yorkshire called "Ladies Only Travel" operating around the Bradford and Brighouse and Huddersfield and Leeds areas.

I understand they started as a taxi company where they only employed female taxi drivers which is where their name came from. But then they expanded in to local bus services but kept the same name. Funnily almost all of their bus drivers were men. I never saw any women driving their buses.

But personally i think it was a terrible name for a bus company. Some people actually thought only female passengers were permitted onboard. I remember at one of the bus stations they had a sign up telling customers that "Ladies Only Travel" services are open to all male and female passengers. They really should have picked a new name when they expanded from taxi services to bus services.

They did very quickly start branding the buses as "LOT".