Today we can join Kurt Schmocker Jr. in the mail bus to Interlaken and back. It is important to him that “his” mail bus looks good in the photograph. Before our picture appointment a lot of cleaning is going on.
Looking back
Time did not stand still 1891 - 2005
Whether one PS or three hundred - the love for the cause has remained
... we let pictures speak ...
Train station Beatenberg (Lake of Thun - Niederhorn)
Encounter on the narrow street in Beatenberg
Swerving onto the footpath cannot be avoided
Beatenberg in the background
View on to the Lake of Thun and towards the Niesen
Train station Interlaken-West
Coffee break in the station bistro
Tickets for the return journey to Beatenberg
Kurt Schmocker, Jr.
Mail bus service in times gone by
Four generations
Grandfather Ernst Schmocker, Kurt Schmocker Sr, Kurt Schmocker Jr.
Report from the local newspaper “Drachebärg Zytig”: fmd. Many years ago a young boy wrote in his essay at school:”I want to become a mail bus driver”. No surprise as his grandfather, his father and his uncle were as well. – This boy was called Kurt Schmocker and has been driving the Beatenberg mail bus for 25 years already, just like his grandfather did.
It all began with the mail being transported by horses Interlaken-Beatenberg
Great-grandfather Rudolf Schmocker - 1891
A motorized taxi service replaced the mail transport by horses
Ernst Schmocker
Bus garages and workshop of Ernst Schmocker and sons
Mail bus from Saurer - in Beatenberg from 1936 onwards
Because of the narrow bends and the wide turning radius of the mail busses, the downhill travelling bus has to swerve to the left to pass.
