Downer Kelios have been advised as the successful tenderer for the Newcastle Bus, Ferry and Tram Contract.

They have a 10 year Contract with many ideas attached!

Jarryd check your PMs!

I live in hope that there may be someone out there who has these badges and is willing to part with them!

The colour scheme here is NOT McVicar livery in any form! The livery shown on this Atlantean would be more akin to Toronto or Punchbowl (who had Deckers in this scheme)

Still on the lookout for these folks!

Afternoon folks. I am still after the Chrome Chevron and script "Coachmaster' badges from the front apron. Someone must have some!

Nearly 300 looks.

Would no one have a copy of this booklet that they might scan and post?

Would anyone have a copy of the booklet handed out at an early NSW Bus show on how to care for your CCMC Body and Fittings that they might scan and post here please?

Great memory jogger lie herein. Thanks for posting them.

Would anyone have photographs of the two different , front winged, LEYLAN ATLANTEAN badges, which were affixed to the Sydney buses?

Peter, You most likely have a Leyland 401. Which state are you in? If NSW speak to the Sydney Road Transport Museum, (NOT the Sydney Bus Museum Leichhardt one), as I know they have a workshop manual for the 401.

:D I always check the Mailbox for your Postcards, keenly anticipated! A comment on photo 1 Stefan, when they question what's going on, you just say to the cheese and kisses, "I know a shortcut to the Nursery love"! On photo 3, you could be forgiven thinking the ex Lothian might be prowling the back ...

Here is a photo of BIP 290 at Shave's, which Venturatiger posted to the ATDB in 2007

That's the one Centralian! It was Green and White in Melbourne.

There was a PMC Viking at Cooma Coaches. Was told he wouldn't sell it because he didn't want people being stuck behind it giving his company a bad name!

The view from Scenic Hill will bring a tear to Punchbowl Tiger Cub, the last of his kind there!

Might one of you Tassie Tigers know if ex Blacktown/Seven Hills/Shaves/Waverly/Fox/Beaumont Coachmaster bodied Albion Viking VK55 survives?

The bus in the T&BT article is m/o 014 which also had a cameo in the movie, They're a weird mob.

Looks like the Syd Wood Atkinson! Boy, were you in the right place at the right time! Another treasure saved from our transport past.

This vehicle looks like a CCMC bodied Izuzu RE that went to Allways then ended up in a paddock near Coopernook NSW. It was registered on mo plates yet had a sedan front door. I do believe that you may have hit it right on the head WSP. I remember the bus in question at ALLWAYS in the terribleBlue/B...

The Ambassador is definately a Superior body, the one in your photo a CCMC. Looks like it has Leyland Nut Guards on front wheels. I know it has a CCMC grille but I still wonder if the rest of it is CCMC or Superior. I know there was a CCMC design similar which only had a handful built [Moores Tours...

On another note, I really think that discussion such as this deserves it's own category, an "Historic/Yesteryear" area where discussion on transport up until say the 1980 can take root.

Just a thought.

PS, m/o5537 is stressing out, hoping that someone might post piccies of the Kogarah Bedfords!

Dear, Dear Bus Riders. Being old and in retirement I commenced looking for the article on the "Leyland Panther" that you mentioned and spent the better part of New Years Day in the bowels of the Shennen Publishing Co, researching their archives into Truck and Bus Transportation. I came across the i...

Hi Bus Riders, as I make my way through scanning/copying the other 700 issues of T & BT, which I have collected over the years, I will keep my eyes open for the Leyland Panther article. HAPPY NEW YEAR GM Your efforts are greatly appreciated GM and I'm sure the original requester from WA will be thr...

Dear "Bus Riders" having spent a considerable amount of my time researching T & BT for 1967, checking the Index for 1967 and 1968 I have discovered the following regarding Foley's Black Panther:- T & BT July 1967, Page 159, Transport People, seventh paragraph, to wit - "About the time this issue is...

You omitted to include the deathly threat in the TT regarding the setting down of passengers prior to Bexley Nth with it's ominous consequences! So thats where the "NON STOP" desto sign comes from. The driver changed it at Bexley North? Yes that's correct. When the service was started it had no rou...

Great spread Centralian! 4018, (originally acquired as 5692) at Blythe was ex Foley TV 474/5539/5692 Bedford VAM - Perkins RE conversion, Scania RE. After I stopped laughing at your comments re 324, I saw the desto displaying 229 ROSELANDS and the Time Table photograph. You omitted to include the de...