Maladjusted wrote:Wow, I thought Athol Hedges did his time with Mr C. Hope.
In Charles Hopes autobiography he states he had some apprentices come through who had gone on to building their own successful businesses, one being George Lester of MBS, I'll ask his son again tomorrow about details.
That picture Bedford 29 put up, that would surely have been an early Hedges chassis as there wouldn't be too many mainstream chassis suppliers putting GM's in
Athol Hedges did spend time with Charles Hope between 1938-1945, but originally started in Sydney with W.S. Grice in 1927, then G.J. Olding from 1931, then Propert & Son Motor Bodies from 1934 through to moving to Brisbane in 1938.
Athol was part of the team that built Brisbane City Council's first forward-control buses in 1940.