I met the perpetrator of the outrage a couple of months ago at a pub near Duxford to retrieve his 1976 painting and give it a clean and repair. There were loads of mistakes that needed correction - too many to list - but short of a complete repaint with numbers 4, 7 and 11 from my PBN outfit, it has now been returned in a state less painful to the eye than it was when I collected it. A nose-job and the roadway received most attention.
The bus that he remembers trundling across the bridge as he approached was represented at his suggestion as a No1. Very appropriate, given that the motto of No1 Squadron
"In omnibus princeps", roughly translates in my schoolboy Latin as
"First in Number One Bus"
Here is the picture:
I am willing to waive my fee to paint one of our few remaining front-line aircraft repeating the feat if anyone would care to oblige next Friday......
Mike R