From the early 1900s, the Melbourne City Council (MCC) licensed passenger vehicles through its Hackney Carriage Vehicle Committee, both horse drawn and motorised. For motor vehicles, the various categories depended on the number of passengers the vehicles could carry. Those…
At 6.40pm on Friday 19th December 1969, owner-driver Phil Venier pulled his bus into the Canterbury terminus to cease operation for the day — and forever. Thus, the colourful history of one of Melbourne’s bus routes (Route 129A: Canterbury — Richmond)…
(includes notes provided by Stuart Locke, CEO of SPS) When World War Two broke out, David Reid (Reid’s Bus Service) and several other Melbourne operators perceived a business opportunity at Seymour, providing transport for troops between the railway station and…
The History of Reservoir Bus Company The history of the Reservoir to Thornbury route goes back to the early 1920s, before the route licensing system was introduced. The Page family (later to be involved with Melbourne and Brighton Bus Lines,…
![Bentleigh Bus Lines <br> [Arrow Motor Service, Dendy Omnibuses & Landsford Motors] (Smith & Suhr)](https://bcsv.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Suhr-5-copy-670x300.jpg "Bentleigh Bus Lines <br> [Arrow Motor Service, Dendy Omnibuses & Landsford Motors] (Smith & Suhr)")
Henry Frederick Suhr was originally a market gardener and was born in Daylesford in 1869. Henry’s father was born in Denmark and his mother in Galway, Ireland. Henry Suhr’s involvement in buses began in 1925 with routes 32A and 34A…
