Nikos (Nicholas) Sikavitsas was born in the village of Argos Orestikon, Kastoria on 1 January 1937 to Christos Sikavitasa and Anastasia Spyropoulos. He was the first born of three brothers (one of whom died very young) and two sisters. After…
Kastoria Bus Lines
Kastoria is a town in northern Greece, the capital city of a region also called Kastoria. The city (currently) has a population of just 37,000 making it smaller in size that the City of Moonee Valley which has about 115,000…
Fleurie
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…
Curren’s Buslines
ROUTE 78A EAST KEW – NORTH BALWYN – CAMBERWELL In 1957, Raymond Curren was running route 78A East Kew – North Balwyn – Camberwell. This service begun in 6/1932 as 78A Canterbury – North Balwyn – East Kew, and was…
Pincini’s of Mirboo North & Rockleigh Tours
Early DaysThe Mirboo area was settled by timber getters in the late 1870s, attracted particularly by the Mountain Ash timber. A railway between Morwell and Mirboo North was approved by the Victorian parliament in November 1880 after agitation from local…
Reservoir Bus Company & Midland Tours
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,…
Moonee Valley Coaches & Expo Tours
Ray Higginson – Aussie Battler (the Moonee Valley Bus Lines story) Complied with notes from Geoff Foster’s interview with Ray Higginson on 12/7/12, with additional input from Craig Coop and Paul Kennelly. If ever anyone could be said to personify…
Broadmeadows Bus Service (Loughnan family)
The Loughnan family commenced bus operations in the Broadmeadows area on 1st March 1944 when they acquired Route 104A from Phillip Thorne, a route which dated from 1942. It had previously been a motor cab route most recently run by…