The longest route

“An out-of-town Dundonian and an avid Dundee Corporation Transport buff posed a question about the city’s bus routes in the late 1950s with Robert Taylor at the helm as BCT general manager and named on every vehicle,” writes Fraser Elder.

“The caller was keen to find out what was the longest distance covered over any city route and, as a summertime student conductor with the DCT during a college recess in this period, I felt qualified to come up with an answer.

“Assigned to a veteran driver named Peter during my stint as a novice ‘clippie’, our duties were mostly connected to runs in brand new Daimler vehicles to Douglas and Angus and in elderly AEC buses known as ‘dupes’ (duplicates) to Broughty Ferry beach

“Recently you featured a photograph of long poles and someone suggested that they were the poles from the salmon netting at St Cyrus,” says Pat McGregor of Blairgowrie. “This picture, taken in 1951, shows the salmon being transported by Nellie the donkey and her handler.”