Adelaide Bus History C MCMANUS SUPPLIED IMAGES Parts 14-17
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Adelaide Bus History C MCMANUS SUPPLIED IMAGES Parts 14-17
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 Lewis Brothers went on for some years as a charter operator, and the MTT had to revive about 50 withdrawn Leyland Worldmaster buses to operate the Para Hills route themselves.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
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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