What does the Skybus contract cover for $1.00? At least the Southern Cross to Melbourne Airport service. The contract payment is peppercorn because the fares are set by a cost plus rule, dating from the original contract in 2002. It also means that no other operator can run the service because it's...

Metropolitan Bus Services Contract - Dyson Group Current 01/08/2018 30/06/2025 $ 500,500,000.00 Metropolitan Bus Services Contract - Dineen Group Current 01/08/2018 30/06/2025 $ 74,900,000.00 Metropolitan Bus Services Contract - Moonee Valley Bus Lines Current 01/08/2018 30/06/2025 $ 22,680,000.00 M...

The Federal Liberal deficit is nine times that of Victoria. In Victoria, we are getting hundreds of new or renovated schools, dozens of new or renovated hospitals, major new rail lines,100 new trams, more trains, dozens of level crossing removals and both solar and wind renewal energy infrastructure...

I bought a hard copy and it has been delivered. Congratulations Glenn on this great book and now the story has been told.

How wide were they please? 96 inches (2.44 metres), the maximum width in Australia at the time both the PD4106 and PD 4107 were introduced. Later versions in the US were 102 inches wide (2.59m) which is the most popular width in the US these days for coaches. The current maximum width in Australia ...

Glenn, click Full Editor & Review and that will lead to a link where you can upload attachments.

Here is a Bruce Tilley photo of one that is stationary and not racing along the highway - a somewhat "calmer Setra":

boronia wrote:Are they Reliances or Swifts?

Reliances, the first Swifts didn't come until 1967 and had Hedges bodies.

Peter, they weren't delivered until 1966 to the (then) Department of the Capital Territory. They have a PMC body with a centre door and were delivered in 1966, along with some Leopards to the same design. They were sold off after the arrival of the CAC bodied MAN SL200 buses from 1975, over the peri...

LB608 wrote:Skybus are waiting government approval to take over Gobus

The pension fund might have a bit less money to play with now.

But it got a bit more complicated than that. The next election was held only three years later in 1991 after which it has been every four years on the odd year. The reason for that 3 year term is not known. Whilst NSW had 4 year terms from 1984, it wasn't until 1995 that the term was fixed. Up unti...

Does any members that where living in NSW around 1987/1988 know the reason why the 1987 NSW state election was held back by a year It wasn't. The 1988 election was held 4 years after the 1984 election. In 1981, the Wran government put a referendum to the people of NSW to change the 3 year term to a...

Im surprised that state elections have fixed terms, whereas federal elections don't, why can't federal elections have fixed terms too. States can have fixed terms via state legislation, which has happened in NSW, Victoria, SA, WA and Queensland. For Federal terms to be fixed or longer than 3 years,...

Hi. I'm new to the BUS AUSTRALIA group. As a Flood, I'm interested in the Ken Flood Collection - Former Victorian Buses and also in who Ken Flood is. I wonder if anyone could fill me in or point me in the right direction? I'm interested in the Floods early business as Coach Builders and Wheelrights...

I bought a copy today of the December 'Special' edition of Australian Bus Panorama dedicated to the late Keith Sydney Kings. Congratulations to all on a very nice tribute through sharing his colour images of early Victorian buses, and to think there are another 7000 negatives waiting to be scanned ...

So plant more trees which need the CO2. That would be good. Unfortunately, we are still cutting down many more than we are planting - and that's just in Australia. Rain forest destruction is even worse around the Amazon (esp Brazil) where enormous amounts are destroyed for pastures each day. Of cou...

Industry wrote:Picture via Ben Oagle of Stuarts at Nowra and is believed to be ex Redline and some reports are ex Continental in Brisbane

It's one of the B&W Denning Lions.

Worthley's depot was on the corner of Brighton Road and Oatlands Road (originally Adelaide Road) as part of as service station. The garage is still on the corner. The Worthley house is next to it along Oatlands Road.

As an aside, the photos are a very interesting progression of Lawton styles - from the late 40s to the early 60s. Of course, the middle of that period saw a large number of buses go to the MTT - all to a single design.

I've recently completed a visit to Scandinavia. Almost all the buses in Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen are three door (artics four), 100% low floor and either electric or hybrid.

Albions Leylands Line ups - QOCS
Single shots - Paul Nicholson Collection

As you can see, in the MBA Reliance, the doors are opposite each other. This was the normal place for the near side door in the 20 MBA bodied buses built for TAA: IMGP6621 - Copy.JPG IMGP6620 - Copy.JPG IMGP6622 - Copy.JPG In the Freighter bodied bus, the front door is also in the normal position: I...

1whoknows wrote:And a Ford airporter bus for TAA at Launceston back in 1971

Yes and the bus The Freighter bodied bus replaced - the MBA bodied AEC Reliance, now restored at the Tasmanian Transport Museum. Here are two in-service shots of them from the Ken Food Collection: