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FOUND The Lost Clipper of Bagdad

Postby bothwellflyer » Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:32 pm

It has finally came out of the bush be it on a made up chassis loader as it is body and chassis rails only but it is all very solid and in good nick for something that has been out in the bush for 30yrs, it could be a 5yrs plan but it will be preserved .
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Re: FOUND The Lost Clipper of Bagdad

Postby Bedford-29 » Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:00 pm

They are going to have fun and games finding the right chassis for this as there would not be very many Clipper chassis out there.I hope someone good at welding and bodywork to get this from wreck to brand new.I hope I am alive in 5-10 to see this fully restored :mrgreen: .
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Re: FOUND The Lost Clipper of Bagdad

Postby Tas Bus Nut » Mon Jul 30, 2012 4:20 am

Well done Trev. The elusive Bagdad mystery has surfaced. You didn't happen to find the AF# on the rear chassis rail per chance :?:
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Re: FOUND The Lost Clipper of Bagdad

Postby leyland clippers » Mon Jul 30, 2012 7:55 am

Good find there Trev. Like Neil will be interested to know AF #. Normally on the LHS chassis rail at the rear. If we can get that then I could tell you what it's TCL fleet # was. Would love to see a clipper restored to TCL livery.
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Re: FOUND The Lost Clipper of Bagdad

Postby MetroTasCatcher » Mon Jul 30, 2012 12:10 pm

Noice! Amazing what you find in the bush 8)
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Re: FOUND The Lost Clipper of Bagdad

Postby bothwellflyer » Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:04 pm

Tas Bus Nut wrote:Well done Trev. The elusive Bagdad mystery has surfaced. You didn't happen to find the AF# on the rear chassis rail per chance :?:
There was no AF plate attached ,he is hoping to rub some paint off in the right spot and find a number
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Re: FOUND The Lost Clipper of Bagdad

Postby crichj » Mon Aug 06, 2012 11:20 am

Maybe this is one of the ones I said about in a previous post about 12-18 months ago?
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Re: FOUND The Lost Clipper of Bagdad

Postby bothwellflyer » Sat Sep 08, 2012 3:52 pm

crichj wrote:Maybe this is one of the ones I said about in a previous post about 12-18 months ago?

A number has been found near the front vent under the paint D63 (Tas Coach No)? any ideas , and it not one off the two which were on the road side this has been up on the hill further up, it is believed the ones on the road, one of those ended up a Lower Marshes and the other went to Carlton River and is possible buried in the Tip
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Re: FOUND The Lost Clipper of Bagdad

Postby VIKing » Sun Sep 09, 2012 2:55 pm

D63 was the Pioneer Fleet Number. This would be AF84, new 10/56, first rego GNY 492.
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Re: FOUND The Lost Clipper of Bagdad

Postby leyland clippers » Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:58 pm

VIKing wrote:D63 was the Pioneer Fleet Number. This would be AF84, new 10/56, first rego GNY 492.

TCL also had the prefix D before the number for their diesel powered buses and P for their petrol powered buses. for example AF26 was D115. Will check that out later.
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Re: FOUND The Lost Clipper of Bagdad

Postby crichj » Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:18 pm

Amazing work bothwellflyer. Wonderfull to hear that you have found the number and great work to see that they have matched up to AF84. Great work there. Does the lower Marshes clipper still exsist, love hearing these storys to where they all end up.
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Re: FOUND The Lost Clipper of Bagdad

Postby bothwellflyer » Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:18 pm

crichj wrote:Amazing work bothwellflyer. Wonderfull to hear that you have found the number and great work to see that they have matched up to AF84. Great work there. Does the lower Marshes clipper still exists, love hearing these story's to where they all end up.

Great work guys keep the info coming it is good to see it's out there ,the one at lower marshes I am on the hunt for
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Re: FOUND The Lost Clipper of Bagdad

Postby bothwellflyer » Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:45 pm

The bus a Lower Marshers is belivered to be at St Helens and was badly burnt in the fires up there a few years back but still there and hoped to be restored
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Re: FOUND The Lost Clipper of Bagdad

Postby crichj » Fri Oct 05, 2012 1:23 pm

that particular bus is at upper scamander, have seen it since the fire and remarkably is still ok on outside but heat melted the inside badly, it was in the clipper colours, blue and white from memory,
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Re: FOUND The Lost Clipper of Bagdad

Postby crichj » Tue May 07, 2013 8:10 pm

how is the clipper coming along
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