Double-decker bus in central London to Sao Paulo street beauty

And red double-decker bus retired after 51 years on the streets of London, where he is a symbol of the city, the traffic now goes through the Brazilian megalopolis Sao Paulo with the intention of becoming a beauty center itinerant.

The London bus in recent days has caught Paulistano has not come to Brazil for gold but a retreat to work: the company that brought you intend to do it before year’s end, a beauty center on wheels, and while walk around Sao Paulo for advertising purposes.

His success as a hairdresser to be seen, but it sure is time that the vehicle, manufactured in 1954, is one of the sensations of the streets of Sao Paulo, where he has left few indifferent bystanders.

Some have even dared to climb, taking advantage of access from the rear is open, as when running through the streets of London, told Efe as his driver, Jose Francisco.

“Several times, some people have uploaded, go a little, then stop and tell them that I can not carry passengers,” explained the driver.

Francisco is a leading paulista 32 years as a professional driver and has a 60 that has begun to manage it, as he said, is “probably the most bizarre bus from Sao Paulo, or at least the only one with steering wheel to the right.

“People say I’m on the wrong side, stop the vehicle when people say: ‘listen, sir, that change is on the wrong side’,” says laughing.

“On the right you have to adapt, at first it was hard, now I got used,” says Francis, who worked for a year to GA.MA, the multinational that acquired the vehicle and brought him to Sao Paulo for advertising purposes.

And the grace of seeing the world-famous double-decker “with the parks and avenues of Sao Paulo, so far from the famous Oxford Street and Trafalgar Square, is simply to draw the attention of passersby to encourage them to settle hair.

A company source told Efe that the end of this year plan to “transform it into a beauty salon roaming” which also seek to “social action and work with NGOs.”

But, they say, the “changes will be made only in the interior, to suit hairdressers and always with respect for the originality of the vehicle.”

The driver himself told Efe that “will be a full room to do work for free to GA.MA and products,” he added.

The car still retains some marks of its past in London, as advertising posters and signs that, over the years been subjected to more than a reshuffle, as seat belts on all seats and a surveillance camera on the second floor .

Among the signs, it is striking that contains the path he made in his last days in the British capital, the number 73, between Tottenham and Victoria Station, with stops at Oxford Circus and Hyde Park Corner.

Abroad, in addition to the advertising of the new company, the vehicle retains the sign with the number 73 and the name of the line: Stamford Hill.

Of time before it is finally transformed into a beauty center, the bus passes through the city for about five or six hours for publicity purposes.

“Usually I go out at 10 in the morning and three or four in the afternoon I’m picking up where the traffic begins to be large,” explained the driver.