DGT Leylands to Canberra

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DGT Leylands to Canberra

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What Year was it that the Department of Government Transport Lent Leyland 31 seaters (Frogs) to Canberra,? they Lent 15 AEC 31 seaters to Brisbane in 1963.
These are the ones that I know went to Canberra 2594 2596 2600 2606 2609 2631 2632 2633 2637 2656 2658 2659 there maybe more.
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LB608 wrote:What Year was it that the Department of Government Transport Lent Leyland 31 seaters (Frogs) to Canberra,? they Lent 15 AEC 31 seaters to Brisbane in 1963.
City to Suburb notes that six Leyland 31-seaters left for Canberra in February 1974, and were returned between August and December of that year.
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Our disposal lists http://fleetlists.busaustralia.com/stad ... arch=LOPS2

give the answer with each bus concerned showing
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Why does NSW carry the weight for other states' bus problems?
Brisbane with the AEC frogs.
Canberra with the Leyland versions.
Melbourne with UTA Leopards.
Brisbane using STA Mercedes mark IIs and ex Action 0305s inherited from N&W takeover.
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I dont recall Sydney have any problems of a magnitude which would have required the use of interstate buses. If they had they probably would have had some interstate buses.
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I remember as a kid in the early to mid 1950's there was a problem with the axles on AEC DDs..cracked I think. I lived at the time in Oberon St Coogee on Rte 399 MARTIN PLACE [ which then with the commencement of railwork under that location and a weight limit being applied for road vehicles,] changed to terminating in MACQUARIE ST CITY. In the AM peak a number of short workings on 399 began at the corner of Cox St and Oberon St, as the buses from the outer terminus of 399 [MAROUBRA BEACH ] were overcrowded. As was my custom then, I would often pause on my walk in Oberon St to watch the front destos being changed on these shortworking- trip buses. One particular morning, 'foreign' signs appeared as the driver wound the roll down to blank at the bottom...I later found out these were NEWCASTLE signs , and the buses were back up for the AEC's then out of service. This went on for some weeks as I remember.

Soon I was to experience my first ride on a Leyland decker and thought how smooth it was after the AEC's ,which seemed always seemed 'jerky' when the gears were changing.

All this was 60 years ago, yet I remember it like yesterday.

This is the only time I can remember 'foreign' (sort of) buses assisting in Sydney.
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ross johnson wrote:I remember as a kid in the early to mid 1950's there was a problem with the axles on AEC DDs..cracked I think. I lived at the time in Oberon St Coogee on Rte 399 MARTIN PLACE [ which then with the commencement of railwork under that location and a weight limit being applied for road vehicles,] changed to terminating in MACQUARIE ST CITY. In the AM peak a number of short workings on 399 began at the corner of Cox St and Oberon St, as the buses from the outer terminus of 399 [MAROUBRA BEACH ] were overcrowded. As was my custom then, I would often pause on my walk in Oberon St to watch the front destos being changed on these shortworking- trip buses. One particular morning, 'foreign' signs appeared as the driver wound the roll down to blank at the bottom...I later found out these were NEWCASTLE signs , and the buses were back up for the AEC's then out of service. This went on for some weeks as I remember.

Soon I was to experience my first ride on a Leyland decker and thought how smooth it was after the AEC's ,which seemed always seemed 'jerky' when the gears were changing.

All this was 60 years ago, yet I remember it like yesterday.

This is the only time I can remember 'foreign' (sort of) buses assisting in Sydney.
Newcastle has helped Sydney in relatively recent times such as when the NH gas buses had a steering issue.
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That's not a fair comparison in this context because it is all part of the same "company".
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For those of you who do not think that Sydney has needed buses from interstate I have just two words for you.....Olympic games.
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The buses for the Games were a big charter job, not a boost for the STA fleet.
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The STA had to step in for them in alot of instances due to lack of any real coordination with all the different private bus companies from NSW and interstate in the ill fated Bus 2000 programme.
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