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Australian Pacific Mercedes-Benz

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I photographed this immaculate Australian Pacific Denning bodied Mercedes-Benz coach [No.50] at Adelaide Airport c.1990's in the car park awaiting its' passengers from an arriving aircraft. Registration is either [VIC] COG or CDG or CQG-435. Australian Pacific's livery indicates the coach operated Tasmania-Perth-Darwin-Cairns Holiday Tours and their slogan 'We Care More' by the forward wheel.

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LocoLes wrote:I photographed this immaculate Australian Pacific Denning bodied Mercedes-Benz coach [No.50] at Adelaide Airport c.1990's in the car park awaiting its' passengers from an arriving aircraft. Registration is either [VIC] COG or CDG or CQG-435. Australian Pacific's livery indicates the coach operated Tasmania-Perth-Darwin-Cairns Holiday Tours and their slogan 'We Care More' by the forward wheel.

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Great photo,LocoLes.
Looks more like a Denning Landseer bodied 0303/3 as opposed to Austral Pacific. I was visiting the Brisbane factory in 1986 when they were building a batch of their coaches.
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It would be a Landseer body with a MB factory front
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Denv12 wrote:
LocoLes wrote:I photographed this immaculate Australian Pacific Denning bodied Mercedes-Benz coach [No.50] at Adelaide Airport c.1990's in the car park awaiting its' passengers from an arriving aircraft. Registration is either [VIC] COG or CDG or CQG-435. Australian Pacific's livery indicates the coach operated Tasmania-Perth-Darwin-Cairns Holiday Tours and their slogan 'We Care More' by the forward wheel.

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Great photo,LocoLes.
Looks more like a Denning Landseer bodied 0303/3 as opposed to Austral Pacific. I was visiting the Brisbane factory in 1986 when they were building a batch of their coaches.

Thank you Denv12 for your reply.............The reference above [Australian Pacific] was referring to the owner of the coach and not the body builder. :D

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As well as extended holiday tours, AP also operated "day tours" in many of those cities, using those buses.
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Sorry Locoles. I read it wrong.I was out by a few letters.
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Denv12 wrote:Sorry Locoles. I read it wrong.I was out by a few letters.
Yep did the same .
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