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VINTAGE FENTON FILE
| 题名： | VINTAGE FENTON FILE |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | MIKE FENTON |
| 摘要： | In the collection of the late Peter J Relf, courtesy of The Bus Archive, is a photograph of PYK 915, a 1955-registered, left-hand-drive ZIS taken in Buckingham Palace Road, London in August 1957. Its owner was the Russian Embassy, situated a couple of miles away in Kensington Palace Gardens. Readers of a certain age - and with good memories -might recall that the vehicle appeared many years ago in Buses Illustrated, January 1958, in Pictureview, in an offside shot credited to Bruce Jenkins, whose son David is a regular contributor to Buses today. ZIS vehicles were built in Moscow by the Zavod Imeni Stalina factory. However, following the death in March 1953 of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, after whom it was named, his successor Nikita Khrushchev initiated a policy of denouncing Stalin for the crimes he had perpetrated against the Russian people, the country's foreign policy errors and the failings of Soviet agriculture. This, in turn, resulted in 1956 in the changing of the name of the manufacturer to ZIL, for Zavod Imeni Likhacheva, honouring instead former works director Ivan Likhachov. Although I was not aware of it at the time, a vehicle I featured 23 years ago in Fenton File in March 2000 was another with a Russian connection. This was FLH 129T, an unusual Lex-bodied Leyland Terrier 650TR that had been new in 1979 to the Anglo-Soviet Shipping Company of London EC3, but owned by Keith Moore of Radcliffe on Trent, Nottinghamshire when I saw it. |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | Buses |
| 卷： | 75 |
| 期： | 817 |
| 页码： | 61-61 |
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