Industry wrote:Looselion a Custom Coaches Coach with Derwent Valley in Sorrell Tasmania photo by Geoffrey Foster.

Thought to be an ex Redline Unit

This appears in every respect to be ex Redline No 38.
The bull bar was a later post-Redline addition.

Mr Scania wrote:

Looselion wrote:If Redline, we're looking around the No 39 era......
Not much to go on there Industry, but there's my initial guess.....

Number 53
Mary Kathleen. Sold to Tintenbar.

I'm wondering what's the proof that this is ex Redline No 53.....??

There were 22 air conditioned units, the motel opening in 1967. In 1983, this establishment (by then named the Inland Motel) along with the four others at the rock, were all compulsorily bulldozed on Federal Govt orders, leaving absolutely nothing to show they ever existed. Such was the way the hard...

Great history Industry.......!! Upper shot shows Rex Law beside Redline No 14, the third of three Tiger Cubs in the fleet. (Note Rex's habit of hanging his uniform jacket cover-all on the pax door lever....) The photo was taken at the roadside diner opposite the old Harwood ferry loading ramps at Ma...

If Redline, we're looking around the No 39 era......
Not much to go on there Industry, but there's my initial guess.....

Thinking about it, the vehicle in Industry's photo can only be ex-Redline No 22, which is quite historic, being the first of a long line of rear-engine tour coaches built by Alan Denning. It was the last delivery from his original factory site on Annerley Road opposite the Red Brick Hotel , before h...

Re the previous picture, below is Redline No 23, a J6 Bedford based R/E Denning after delivery into service in May 1961 as NML-349, the same rego....... There are all sorts of discrepancies, which I cannot solve here, not the least being the shallow front glass on the more recent photo, which was a ...

Industry wrote:GM and VI King confirmed as Owen and Clive Bevan, GM trust you do not mine if I get a print done for Owen of the Chev.

Sorry Looselion we have gone a bit of track here.

No worries mate.....it's all part of the big historic industry mix......!!!

Hi Industry, Marvellous to hear about Owen and his recollections of Rex and Redline.....(especially looking better than the blue company!) Please convey my best wishes and great respect to him as an old stager and pioneer of the industry, and I assure you I will be happy to respond as best I can to ...

Industry it seems 68 underwent a lot of modifications after coming from Redline. Looks like a complete re-skin along with a revised front. The upper air intakes for the Jet Air ventilation system were mostly shrouded as seen on 68, to reduce the insect intake factor, along with water in heavy rain c...

Just talking to Laurie MacBeth. Redline No 48 Hedges Body. He has this same photo in his album. Robert Regarding the image on the previous page of Laurie MacBeth passing under the entry arch to the Ayers Rock - Olgas National Park in No 48, I have found a photo taken many years later and posted by ...

Looselion I understand your comments in the private email last week, just had a grump old man from Queensland and has a t shirt with that on it carrying on about the Hagan photo. This photo is posted with permission of Geoffrey Foster of and old Redline unit operating om the Qld Gold Coast, The ret...

Here's a tour inbound to the East Coast from Central Australia, crossing the Hay Plains in South-Western NSW. Captained by John White..... I'm unsure of the coach's fleet number. Apologies for the motion blurring, but I think it's a worthwhile image of that broad landscape back in the late '60's, st...

BTW, regarding the previous post's reference to the change to side-air induction, this had the effect of providing extra seat pitch, thus extra passenger leg-room due to the absence of the internal vertical rear corner air ducts. Without the ducts, the rear seat could now be positioned further back,...

Hi Industry, This was Redline No 57, the very first r/e Denning build to feature side engine air intakes rather than an upper air scoop. This unit was always on long distance work, never to receive a TV plate. Disposed of to Alastair Grant of Maroochydore, then to Hagans of Toowoomba. I believe she ...

Ex Redline No 111.
A touch of kiddie control would have gone down well here......

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I recently came across some images of what I assume to be Mexican constructed coaches and buses.
There is a range of 2, 3 and 4 axle variants, and I have no other information due to my lack of Spanish lingo.
I've attached an example, a rather impressive looking 12 wheeler.

Now and again I come across an interesting image or two that I don't think I've previously shared here.
The following two pictures of No 48 were taken on different 'Centre' tours in 1965 by safari captain Bert Abeles.

I wish to voluntarily correct a statement I made in this forum and perhaps elsewhere to the effect that Rex Law had been contractually associated in the early 1970's with Gordon Nuttall in the transport of antimony ore from a mine under the operating name of "Nuttall" which I had stated wa...

Seeing the very interesting series of Collins' Collection historic photos of those early Dennings in multiple numbers prompts me to add another, taken at the Roma St depot in Brisbane, very likely on an Easter Thursday afternoon, as no less than four Series 1 Dennings were loading. The only coach I ...

I can't help it....for some reason this reminds me of the little operation Freddy Carah ran in 1960 between Brisbane and Lismore, which he called Richmond Valley Coaches, using a couple of 5 pax Fairlane Ranch Wagons. I can remember him giving me a go at one of these barges in Brisbane one day.... I...

Ray/Robert Collins Collection There was a road thru here on my last tour, must of made a wrong turn 20 miles ago What a great series of historic photos from the Collins collection! During the production run (fleet Nos 22 to 29 inclusive) of these first eight Denning coaches which were developed spe...

From the Ray/Robert Collins collection Was this the back yard of Rex's house we have read about. No Industry, looks like a Centre Safari camp site on a very wintery overnight on the fringe of a little town who knows where.... I can say this was very likely in 1961 and the Denning to the right of pi...