Adelaide Bus History C MCMANUS SUPPLIED IMAGES Parts 9-13
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Re: Adelaide History C MCMANUS SUPPLIED IMAGES Part 10
AEC Regent 103 was withdrawn in 1954 and ended up at Marree for railway work 1955-57
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Re: Adelaide History C MCMANUS SUPPLIED IMAGES Part 10
Yes - 5 of the pre-war Adelaide 'deckers - 2 AECs, and 3 Leylands were involved in that project - I think the standardization of the Marree railway line.Bedford-29 wrote:AEC Regent 103 was withdrawn in 1954 and ended up at Marree for railway work 1955-57
"The Advertiser" had a front page photo of all 5 in Marree in 1957.
I managed to track down the contractor about 20 years ago, and he said that three came back to Adelaide (104, 111, and one other). Two were left up at Marree - they had their engines etc stripped and so had to be towed.
I often wonder whether they are still up there. In that dry climate, the bodies would probably still be in quite good condition!
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Trevor
Re: Adelaide Bus History C MCMANUS supplied images Part 12
Love the local bus photos.I remember them.Keep posting.
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Adelaide Bus History C MCMANUS SUPPLIED IMAGES Part 13
Photo 2 Dennis Lancet - the MTT purchased a few one-or two offs in the late 1930s, presumably to replace some of the older Macks - however, they saw little use as time went on, but the Macks kept going! This was one of two single deck Dennis Lancets - they were sold to Bunney Brothers who operated the Torrensville service, in the early 1950s. There were also a couple of Leyland Lions, and a Leyland Lioness.
Photo 3 - a quite new 811, looking very smart - the red band certainly enhanced their appearance. I suspect this may have been taken in August 1957 - the first date on which the three-door buses were used as one-man vehicles on general route service. The MTT and the Union took almost three years to reach this agreement - they had been used one-man on special racing services, but with a queue ticket seller selling fares at the centre door - the double rear doors remained closed. (It seems somehow appropriate that 811 was one of sixteen Leylands converted for full-time one man operation in 1968, pioneering the type of operation which became standard with the delivery of Daimler Roadliners, and AEC Swifts between 1969 and 1972.)
Picture 4 The fifteen Ford Hercules (also known as Ford Mercuries) buses are a little remembered part of MTT history. They were purchased towards the end of the war as part of a war-time "Lend Lease" programme initiated by the USA. They were used mainly on the one-man feeder routes, and only had a fairly short life with the MTT, being superseded by the 50 AEC Regal 111 single deckers which arrived between 1949 and 1952, the 20 Ford Ansair Transetts in 1951, and then by the three door underfloors from 1954 onwards. (We saw a rear view of this bus earlier, and there are a couple more pictures of them to come.
Cheers,
Trevor