New to ACT Bus Gallery is this pamphlet for the City to Airport Shuttle Buses, from 1982.
Also interesting to note the absence of New Parliament House!
Enlargement and other page can be found here
Airport Buses - 1982 Style!
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Re: Airport Buses - 1982 Style!
Capital Hill would of looked different back then, but construction on the new Parliament House would of already have started around 1982.Ryan wrote:Also interesting to note the absence of New Parliament House!
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Re: Airport Buses - 1982 Style!
Was AAT involved in running this service, or did the new owners of the bus not bother repainting it ??
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Re: Airport Buses - 1982 Style!
LOOK, ITS A TRY HARD PIECART!
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Back to reality, that looks like an enlarged version of the CDC ribbon (the livery on the bus).
Um, in the picture on the left, what building is that?
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Mitch (:
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Back to reality, that looks like an enlarged version of the CDC ribbon (the livery on the bus).
Um, in the picture on the left, what building is that?
Thanks,
Mitch (:
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Re: Airport Buses - 1982 Style!
old federal Parliament house.
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Re: Airport Buses - 1982 Style!
In answer to Boronia's question, I'd suggest that it was part of an AAT operation with the exact colours of the fleet + words & font of the early 80's, plus up to Page McGeary bought AAT in 1983 there was a small depot for charter and snow operations in Canberra.
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Is that a Merc O309 with CC body? Possible to be an ex-UTA bus?
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They have a stock Mercedes body, quite a few operators had them, I don't think this one is ex UTA.
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Re: Airport Buses - 1982 Style!
New parliament house construction started in 1981.
Re: Airport Buses - 1982 Style!
this merc was one of two that were in Canberra in the early 1980 they were used for Taa crew moverments And an airport shuttle bus services from the city to the airport and the odd charter. AAT got out of canberra in late 1983 when they sold the vechicles to a company on the gold coast called EET. I think they called thenself Ells enterainment tours.I was working for AAT in canberra at the time.