In the days before digital imaging, it was quite common for manufacturers to create impressive line-ups of new deliveries by old-fashioned 'cut and paste' and traditional darkroom technique. It was quite an art but the results were rarely convincing, because simply duplicating a single vehicle is apt to introduce all sorts of perspective problems. Digital techniques have made it much easier but it still requires a trained eye and attention to detail - particularly detail seen through the vehicle windows. This Maltese Leyland Hippo is quite literally beside itself in a collage of photographs taken forty years apart. The older view (in the dark blue livery) was one of a series of excellent images by Andrew Johnson that I prepared for the book Maltese Buses of Yesteryear. The collage was produced for a magazine article that never appeared (02-Sep-09).
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