Coaches at Calais Port - 3 Sep 2007 (JLSC2)

Monday 3 September 2007 – Leading is a Eurolines lettered Setra S416 (S416 HDH?) wearing a cream rather than the usual base white paint job. The logo beneath the driver’s window appears to be that of Spanish contractor Autocares Hermanos Arriaga S.A.

Directly behind is a Berkhof Axial 70 bodied Volvo operated by Club Cantabrica, Watford.

The third vehicle has yet to be fully identified. The bodywork design looks like a Drögmöller product probably on a Volvo 9900 chassis. Volvo took a stake in Drögmöller in 1994 and built such a model at their Heilbronn plant in Germany until closure in 2005 when production moved to Poland. A trademark feature of many Drögmöller models was the upward slope of the floor and window line from front to back which allowed better forward vision for passengers. Each set of seats being slightly higher than those in front.

My daughter Jane snapped this for me as we were queuing to board our ferry.