Swiss Post Auto Hungary Help, 1956 (b/w photo)

PTT Director General Eduard Weber, centre left, personally bids farewell to his drivers in official PTT uniform. On 25 November 1956, at the request of the Austrian government to the Federal Council, a motorcade of the PTT administration from Bern to Austria. 25 Postbuses carry the Swiss Red Cross badge and are supposed to help in the Hungarian crisis to bring Hungarian refugees from the collection points at the Austrian border to the reception in the interior of the country and from there on to Switzerland and other countries. The vehicles are accompanied by the drivers and mechanics of thirty Red Cross sisters.