ORION at the London Docks

Another stunning photograph from a slide shared by Michael Sutcliffe, former Purser on the ORION and other Orient and P&O ships in the late 1950s to the early 1970s.
Why there are no longer imaginative and beautiful passenger ship liveries? Corn colour was just perfect with buff funnels and masts... The closer hull colours were used by Epirotiki ships but even those turned into dark blue in later years...
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