Even if the weather was really awful in Swizerland in early March I usually managed to return home with a suntan as even if I couldn't make it south to Lugano I reached closer Bellinzona at the foot of the Alps where the climate too was usually springlike and warm. As the local post garage did all the local bus contracts including the town services not only did it have one of the lagest allocations with thirty vehicles there was more variety here than at other garages. Unusual vehicles included a twenty-six seater MAN. Until the PTT was broken up when the telecoms section was sold off vehicles carried fleet numbers that strictly followed system devised in 1963 wih the smallest types carrying numbers starting at 21000 upwards towards in theory a 29999.