Adelaide Bus History C MCMANUS SUPPLIED IMAGES Parts 14-17

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leyland4ever
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Adelaide Bus History C MCMANUS SUPPLIED IMAGES Parts 14-17

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802  Opening Crowd  Paradise OBahn  9-3-85
802 Opening Crowd Paradise OBahn 9-3-85
103 Body Front  1914 Daimler never built part restored 2000
103 Body Front 1914 Daimler never built part restored 2000
203  Percy Lewis  Inter 61382  MOBL126 MTT 347  1926
203 Percy Lewis Inter 61382 MOBL126 MTT 347 1926
213 MACK MTT 89  Morphettville  1920s
213 MACK MTT 89 Morphettville 1920s
Some of these will need a bit of explanation!

Pic 1 - self explanatory - opening day of OBahn - quite a crowd has been attracted!

Pic 2 - In 1978, the STA held a celebration, including a parade of trams and buses in King William Street South, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Adelaide's first horse tram service.

As part of that, the STA got quite enthusiastic about its history, and began hunting around for surviving relics of old buses, trams and other memorabilia.

Among other things, a Garford double decker (208) was restored (there have been some pictures of it already), a Mack single decker was retrieved and restoration started (but it subsequently seems to have vanished!),and Leyland Canton s/d trolley bus was retrieved and restored, and is now at the St Kilda Tramway Museum.

One real curiosity which turned up was a body (I think only one was found) of a proposed bus, which was never mounted on a chassis (I think there were several originally). They would have looked like the London General B type open toppers. Presumably as the date of the body is 1914, the outbreak of The Great War prevented the chasses from being sent to Australia, and so the project lapsed. The restoration project also seems to have lapsed - whether the partially restored body still exists I don't know.

Pic 3 The Percy Lewis mentioned is the father of the John Lewis whom some may remember as the proprietor of Lewis Brothers Bus Service. They operated buses mainly to the North East, Para Hills etc. John declined to sell his fleet to the MTT in February 1974, when most other operators sold out as part of a deal negotiated with the Government of the day. Lewis Brothers went on for some years as a charter operator, and the MTT had to revive about 50 withdrawn Leyland Worldmaster buses to operate the Para Hills route themselves.

The bus shown here, was also taken over by the MTT in an earlier kerfuffle between them and private operators - hence the reference to an MTT number for it.

Pic 1 Quite a good photo of a Mack in its early days - from this angle it looks rather more substantial than other photos of the Macks.

Why it was operating a service between the City and the Morphettville Race Course is a bit of a mystery - presumably the SAR ran Race specials on the Glenelg line when it was a railway line? (The MTT did not take over the line and begin tram services until December 1929.)

One possibility is that this photo was taken in the period between the closure of the railway, and the opening of the tramway.

Cheers,

Trevor
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Re: Adelaide Bus History C MCMANUS SUPPLIED IMAGES Part 14

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Thanks for sharing those photos. That first image is probably just an accurate depiction of TTP on any weekday at 7:45AM, albeit without the Mercs.
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Adelaide Bus History CMCMANUS SUPPLIED IMAGES Part 15

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742  Henstridge Depot 79   South Rd Clovelly Park 1-77
742 Henstridge Depot 79 South Rd Clovelly Park 1-77
752  Leyland 801  2-door  Vic Squ 3-72
752 Leyland 801 2-door Vic Squ 3-72
802 Volvo 1018  Garford-Bedford 208  North Tce  6-83
802 Volvo 1018 Garford-Bedford 208 North Tce 6-83
812 Volvo B59 1080 6-83
812 Volvo B59 1080 6-83
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Adelaide Bus History C MCMANUS SUPPLIED IMAGES Part 16

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722  Harcourt Gdns 7804  Diagonal Road  1-77
722 Harcourt Gdns 7804 Diagonal Road 1-77
732  Campbells Workshop  Plympton  1-77
732 Campbells Workshop Plympton 1-77
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Adelaide Bus History C MCMANUS SUPPLIED IMAGES Part 17

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602 AEC Regal lV 646  KWS-North Tce facing E  1961
602 AEC Regal lV 646 KWS-North Tce facing E 1961
612 808 Leyland  Hackney South Depot  1969
612 808 Leyland Hackney South Depot 1969
612 808 Leyland  Hackney South Depot  1969
612 808 Leyland Hackney South Depot 1969
702  Lang Bedford  SFE 626  1-77
702 Lang Bedford SFE 626 1-77
712 Slattery Depot 81  Payneham  9-76
712 Slattery Depot 81 Payneham 9-76
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