Found this one in the Perth suburb of Bayswater this afternoon. Ex Pykes ?

Your bus was fitted with a heavy timber frame body built by Campbell and Mannix when it was new. The chassis dates from 1956 and the bus entered service in 1957. The old body was replaced with a new lighter weight steel frame body by Boltons body builders of West Perth in 1966. Whether that affects ...

Well done. Its good to see that you are trying film as a medium for your bus photography. Film is my preferred medium for my transport photography. If I only have one opportunity for a precious shot, I will use the film camera. I use colour transparency (slide) film. Fujichrome Velvia 100. This prod...

Bus Preservation Society of WA needs seats for its CAC bodied OB and SB buses. What a pity Tasmania is so far away!

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Bus Preservation Society of Western Australia has scanned copies of most bus and engine manuals available for sale. And the good thing is the proceeds go towards preservation of Western Australia's bus heritage. Lodge an enquiry through www.bpswa.org/

I can help you with SuperFlyte. Saw her running the service between Sorrento and the island of Capri in the Gulf of Naples, Italy last October. Here is the picture, plus one when she was operating in Western Australia. MV SuperFlyte Fremantle 16 Jan 2000 ATDB.jpg MV Super Flyte Capri 16 oct 2015 ATD...

Many thanks for posting the picture of MV Islander I. It is one of the best colour shots that I have seen of this vessel before alterations that changed her appearance significantly were undertaken. She is at the bottom of the ocean off the New South Wales coast now. Type B Fairmile motor launch. I ...

Back onto the topic, Dp76 is still alive and well, - with a long term member of Bus Preservation Society of Western Australia.

The four normal control Bedford OB buses with ANA are interesting. Not too different to the Campbell and Mannix body Bedford OB recently acquired by the Bus Preservation Society of Western Australia. "Miss Pemberton" of Metro Tours. Bedford OB Miss Pemberton formatted.jpg Campbell & Ma...

Friend of mine has a 1954 year car that has been in his family since new. Its rego was 58588. The reflective plate issued when the old all numeric plate was compulsorily taken away was ULP588. I don't know if other all numeric got to keep some of the original numbers though. The all numeric plates i...

North Beach Bus Co. Does Minerva-Imperia ring a bell ? This Belgian company exported some trucks and buses to the UK. Maybe one found its way to Perth ?

There is a red Volkswagen Transporter van in the picture (Kombi). From what I can glean from the internet, these first went into volume production in 1956. That would mean the picture was taken 1956 or later.

Thanks for the tip and link to the Daimler double deck picture. It was United Buses of Claremont, - number 6. Pre-War COG5 model fully imported from the UK with Park Royal body. Perth's only double deck bus for many decades. The chassis still exists with the Bus Preservation Society of WA. (BPSWA). ...

Thanks for the tips so far guys :) just curious but is it ok to take photos of public transport at places like train stations/major bus stops etc? Yes, photography is permitted at places that are accessible to the general public. But ......... Download the page from the Public Transport Authority w...

Glad you have John Young's book. My inclination is the buses in the picture above are A11, A6, A10 and A14. A11 and A14 received the Howard Porter bodies with fibreglass ends and can also be distinguished with deeper side windows with the top portions as sliders. The earlier rebuilds had shallower s...

I don't know what reference source you are using for the WAGR road bus fleet details, but the definitive works are David Urquhart's www.perthbus.info web site and John Young's book "Railway Road Truck and Bus Services of Western Australia". John has just done a reprint of his book, so it i...

Hi Roderick, Some great pictures. Comprehensive photography of buses in Western Australia by the enthusiast community here did not gather serious momentum until the early 1970's and you have posted many interesting pictures that are now very rare. Most of us were too busy concentrating on steam trai...

Prime mover appears to be what we know as a "jail bar Ford". Side valve V8 in most, if not all cases. I must take issue with my colleague Guy_Arab. Any vehicle that has a flexible joint is technically articulated. Be it a conventional semi-trailer or the modern articulated bus. The worst a...

The Western Australian model is that country road coach services are still basically undertaken by the government of Western Australia. This is done through the Public Transport Authority (PTA) that trades under the TransWA brand and owns and operates the fleet of Scania coaches, Australind narrow g...

There is much about the WAGR bus fleet that is still to be told. When looking at the Guy Victory chassis as supplied to the WAGR one should also look at Guy Motors' parallel development of the Wulfrunian double deck chassis. Both this version of the Victory and the Wulfrunian employed disc brakes at...

Couple of points relating to the WAGR Guy Victory buses and G 59 "Queen of the South". The three high deck Scenicruiser body buses (note the WAGR use of the word "coach" didn't become widespread until the Mercedes-Benz O303 era) were basically out of service by 1971. As we know G...

Looks like a great display with some interesting vehicles.

Did you take a picture of the yellow and green truck - looks like another Foden?

Claremont station is different from many other stations, as (from my observations) there is enough parking. It has a massive car park (for the station's size) that was probably built for Showgrounds. With the parking charge, there will most certainly be some people who will park for free on the str...

The shot of 2339 in Ben Street may not be the best one to experiment or "fiddle" with. Your camera has done well originally with a technically different picture. i.e. the subject in shade on a sunny day with bright background. You may wish to play around with originals that are not in such...