Bus and Coach Society of Victoria
During World War Two, labour shortages saw the drafting of many women into occupations which had previously only performed by men. There were a wide range of such occupations – everything from bus driving to assembling fighter aircraft! The excerpt…
The July edition of Truck & Bus Transportation from 1950 onwards carried a detailed “specification” section for trucks and buses. For buses, this was split into two groups – chassis and complete production buses. One of the interesting columns in…
Ash Long was an early member of the Society. Here are his boyhood recollections of the buses in Melbourne’s north: In the 1950s, one suburban block away from our home in the northern suburb of Reservoir was a bus stop.…
In this article we will look back at some Truck and Bus Transportation journals from the mid to late 1960s. Vol. 27 no. 12 (December 1963) For many years Ansair had a regular advertisement on the inside of the…
Remember when… A standard bus for NSW was a Bedford / CCMC or in Victoria a Bedford / Comair? Lantern windscreens were all the rage. Air-conditioning was “jet air”? If you wanted a heavy-duty bus – you thought of a…