Hello all..... A quick note to advise that the E Book edition of my publication "Rex Law's Redline" is now available for immediate purchase and download from Amazon Australia. https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=rex+law&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 It's published in all formats, including Kindle and E Pub, and is ful...

It appears to Lyndhurst in 1969 Yes, Brazell's garage gives it away for me. This was in northern South Australia, where the Strzalecki Track and the Oodnadatta Track came together, close to the old Ghan railway line. I can't decide which Redline unit it was......although very few were fitted with t...

Maybe you should go to the top of the board index, where you will find a category "New Users/Ask a Simple Question" where you can ask your question and be pretty sure of getting a helpful answer. Hope this helps....

Touring the 'Outback' in the 1950s and 1960s always instilled a proud sense of adventure in the mostly 'city slicker' participants.... Travelling the thousands of kms of unsealed roads and roughing it under canvas at night seemed to bring out their inner 'Chips Rafferty.' So much so that many who tr...

The photos would be of great interest if you can dig them up.....!

I'm sure I can remember his name BDAT.....
Yes, those who knew him knew very well that Rex had a way with words and could sell a fridge to an eskimo.....always at the right price, mind you!

Industry, I think ex-Redline No 96 or 97.
Hard to be sure which.

Upper shot is the Superior bodied Ford R226 No 110 or 111.
Middle shot is another Superior bodied R226.
Lower shot is a Watt Bros R226, maybe ex-Redline No 88.

I'm truly humbled by these supportive and positive comments.
Thank you all....and I say that with my one-of-a-kind father also in mind.
Glenn

Just received the book, "Rex Law's Redline" and I have only had a chance to have a quick skip through, but it looks absolutely fascinating, in a very "readable" style, with plenty of illustrations and even a fleet list - well done. I very much look forward to reading it (once I have finish reading ...

Hi BDAT
Great to hear you have a connection between your uncle and his Redline days mate.
What is his name?

Thank you for your kind comments Tim, and I hope you enjoy the read.

Hello all, Letting the board know that my 400 page book about Rex Law and Redline is now published and available for purchase. At the same time I need to advise that the end publishing arrangements resulted from my having to take the path of least financial resistance, leading to the book being publ...

Many thanks for your assistance SI......

Here's a shot that came through too late for inclusion in my book, "Rex Law's Redline - The Biggest Little Bus Co in Australia" which is finally about to be published in print and e-book formats. The interesting story behind the photo of Laurie MacBeth and the Sydney based mechanic John Edwards in t...

For what it's worth I just tried to make a new post, yet for the life of me I now can't figure out how to attach a photo......
Something's changed, but I'm not sure what....
Anyone had the same problem?
Or is it just my senility onset....?

As I mentioned above, there were various changes to the itinerary, each way, over the years, depending on road and vehicle improvements. The move from the Peterkin Inn at Nambucca Heads to the Plantation Hotel at Coffs Harbour was enabled by the opening of the Dennis Bridge over the Hastings River a...

Here's the Calga Kiosk (looking north) ten years later, in 1963, (with acknowledgment to Robert Young for the image) long after Redline had moved on to the Kangy Creek roadhouse at Ourimbah. Both now of course consigned to oblivion. Directly beside and to the rear of the kiosk there was rocky bushla...

Question for Glenn re the 1953 apron 2 day tour via Uralla o/n Sydney Brisbane weekly tour. Do you details of departure and arrival times for each day and applicable lunch stops on record. The original 1953 itineraries were: BRIS - SYD: Dep Bris 8.30 am M/Tea Aratula Lunch Stanthorpe A/Tea Glen Inn...

Some kind words from a greatly respected woman who knows Central Australian heavy transport and those entrepreneurs who made it all happen... Liz grew up closely observing and participating in the post WW2 emergence of the Outback's truck and coach industry. She developed a passion for the place and...

One of our drivers was on a Central Australia trip in 1964 and captured some of these Landliner coaches which he was a passenger on. Details of Landliner and the Coach are unknown but he assured me it was state of the art at the time Gbnf Man - Stewart & Sons bodied Albion Viking VK41L..beautiful! ...

Redline no096 PDO.465 (800 x 459).jpg Redline no097 TV468 (800 x 561).jpg This looks like one of the coaches sold to Moores in latter life Not ex Redline Industry. It's a Superior body of course but the two Superior bodied R226's that went to Moore were Redline Nos 96 and 97, which both had top-sli...

Superior Body for Redline no95 in this advertisement This was the very first example of the factory rear-engine Viking to go into service in Australia, being a VK43L/505 series. The full story of Rex pressuring Leyland to supply rear-engine Vikings is told in my book, to the extent that in 1964 he ...

Industry wrote:So Rex's TV plates were new to Redline

Two of the plates came with Rex's purchase of Jim Duthie's "Tourist Service of NSW" business in 1959.
I don't have the history of the other four, but I'm sure they were originally new to Redline.

Industry wrote:Looselion Where the Redline NSW TV plates bought off Moores or was it they bought the plates and 3 coaches off Rex.

In 1969 Rex sold all of Redline's six TV plates to Archie Moore, three of them attached to R226 Fords.
I understand Archie re-sold the six plates separately from the coaches in 1973.