Think I'll have to come up with some new photos. I still have boxes and boxes of bus slides that I've never scanned from the late '70's and the '80's. Time will catch up so I'd better pull my finger out or they'll be lost. Stay tuned ! This is believed to have been Centralian's last contribution. H...

Red and Cream. I was pleased to see these old photos of buses operating in Sydney, many of which I had not seen before. I would be glad to see photos of more buses of this era posted in this forum. Great history as usual Thanks Dave Thanks for the comments guys, much appreciated. Hope to post a few...

I suppose it seems a bit unusual for this subject to resurface here again but i received an email from an enthusiast who had seen a facebook post with a couple of Ken Magor's photos of Royle Bros. austerity buses and he wondered why on one of the buses the route numbers had been painted in an unusua...

Red and Cream. Thank you for the above information. I have four other Sinclair buses I need more information on. They are m/o 643, m/o 896, m/o 4321 and m/o 4598. I am not sure if they were Eastwood Bus Service, Dundas Valley Coaches or something else. Do you have details on Sinclair's buses on Rou...

I have m/o 930 and m/o 4528 belonging to Sinclair, Eastwood. I am not sure if they were registered in the name of Eastwood Bus Service or Dundas Valley Coaches. Could someone advise me regarding this. m/o4528 was registered in the name of Eastwood Bus Service Comeng Bedford mo4528 was not new to Si...

Great pix - thanks all. There was a regular school run in the 50s by the blue-and-cream liveried, semi-trailored AEC Matador, between the residency "Masonic Schools" at Baulkham Hills and Westmead Tech. in Hawkesbury Road, Westmead. Parramatta Bus Co - m/o 931, 932, 024. 157, 325. All AEC...

1whoknows wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:27 am The Wee Waa operator was Lowder. The Grenfell one is Loader.

Thanks for the correction 1whoknows, just shows i should have gone to bed after midnight instead of trying to enter info on the board.

Info on NSW rego plates 4147, 4159,4166,4170, 4216, 4328, 4292. Hi bushead, i know you posted thia message nearly 12 months ago about rego details and in regard to m/o 4328, hugh45 correctly identified it as a Granville Bus Co bus. i thought you might be interested in a bit more info about it. m/o ...

LB608 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 7:31 pm Here is a few more
m/o 154
m/o 343
MO 280
MO 4901
TV 499
TV2514

Hi LB608, some info about your rego numbers from my records.
m/o 154 was an AEC half cab with Parramatta Bus Co.
MO 280 (Country rego) was a Toyota Arakawa mini bus with Harris of Tumut.

Cheers Dave.

















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m/o 4774 was a Syd Wood bodied AEC Half Cab with Seven Hills Passenger Service and came from Pioneer Coaches of Bexley. After service with them it went to a wreckers yard at Padstow. Hi Red and Cream Slightly off-topic. But I had never seen reference to "Vardys Road Bus Service". I am gue...

Were the White and Diamond T buses pictured above registered with E.H.Blyth. In my very early registration notes the bus shown as a White in GM's photos is registered as m/o 721. It was certainly in E H Blythe's fleet. Here is a Don Allitt photo of it at a Billy Graham Crusade at the old Sydney Sho...

Hi there, my partners grandfather is Allen Blythe who still lives in the old bus depot house. If anyone has any old photos I would love to see them as he turns 98 this year. Djltechservices@gmail.com is my email if you have any Hi David, a few photos i captured of E.H.Blythe buses over the years. B...

GM check your PM box for message.

A very unusual door arrangement with the front door behind the first axle, but a centre door ahead of the rear axle. My guess is the operator didn't like rear doors for safety reasons or revenue protection but required a second door to facilitate passenger flow during busy periods. Sinclair was cer...

[/quote * Pulls out asthma spray * Col Sinclair who ran the 89 before Deanes in 73 Sinclair?? So when Metro West Bus Lines took over route 89 in July of 86, it came full circle with the same operator running the two routes? If they were indeed both under the same operator, were their respective dep...

I have not been able to identify buses with registrations m/o 4504, m/o 4627, m/o 4628, m/o 4708 and m/o 4774. Does anyone have details of buses with these plates. hugh45 - m/o 4628 was a FC SB Bedford CAC with Duffy of Richmond and went through a few registrations with Duffy starting out as MO 111...

The AEC photo above shows West Ryde Carlingford Eastwood on the side of the bus. As route 172 was Parramatta to Eastwood via the Main Road, what was the route no. for the bus from West Ryde. hugh45 at the time of my photo, George and Col Sinclair( and sometimes in partnership with Carl Tattam) oper...

When Sinclair operated route 172 he also used the name of Dundas Valley Coaches as seen here on m/o 4220 a Comeng bodied AEC photographed on 19th March 1960. B140-SINCLAIR-4220.jpg * Pulls out asthma spray * Col Sinclair who ran the 89 before Deanes in 73 Sinclair?? So when Metro West Bus Lines too...

While we're covering the northern districts, who was doing the 172 Eastwood to Parramatta in the 50s and 60s? Isn't it amazing that the granddaughter of the family who ran Cumberland Coaches who did the 172 until Ken Butt's takeover in 81, married the grandson of Ron Deane snr. They both operated t...

Fleet Lists wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 4:31 pm Another month which started slowly with one day with only 5 edits, and stayed slow just livening up somewhat. today with 40 edits, averaging only 21.95

I try to kick things along occasionally

Hi everyone, It's been a long time since I last posted here. A while back (not sure how long), I read an article about a hotel which had bought an ex Sydney AEC Regent III. I'm pretty sure the hotel is in NSW. Could anyone here please help? I have been racking my brains trying to remember as much a...

A driver told me how those demist bars struggled to fulfill their purpose on wet days leaving only small patches of clear glass to see where your were going. Was that your experience? The passenger cell probably wasn't exactly cosy unless the motor was the heater or there was a heater box for them....

I saw school kids creating a jet by putting a finger on the nozzle of that bubbler, trying to hit the overhead power lines. One did one day but survived, newly energised. I'm sure the bubblers must have been removed not long after that.. Yes they were overworked by school children. I must admit in ...

What a fantastic series of posts R&C! That Willoughby Worldmaster is quite a sight there. First time I've seen a pic of a second series body with those headlights. It changes it's look quite dramatically. I like it. I found the Worldmasters a great bus to drive with plenty of power to get away ...

A good read here learning that tidbit about Bradfield Park. Red and Cream 263 looked an "over chassised" bus for sure. Would it have had an 0600 combined with a synchro gearbox? I'm guessing those headlights weren't halogen haha! Must have had a pleasant golden glow at night, enough to ma...