These photographs come from the John Masterton Collection.
The first picture is a CAC Bedford SB flat screen, new in 1955, and reg GKA 222. It was the habit for many years for PCWPS to register vehicles with the last three digits indicating the fleet number of the bus (in this case it was number 2). The livery is pale grey:
The company operated a service from Melbourne to Werribee and had a city depot. Here is a shot at that North Melbourne Depot, which also indicates the change from CAC to Freighter SB Bedfords:
A closer shot of one of those Freighter products, HUX 999 new in July 1963:
Here is an Albion Viking with Freighter body, new in January 1970 and reg KMK 020:
Next, another Freighter Albion, this time a Clydesdale, new in May 1971 and reg LVA 145 and also sporting the Holzgrefe new livery of white with blue:
Russell Mee provided a new bus to PCWPS in June 1972 to a rather unique design, some would say the best Mee design ever. It was on a Bedford VAM70 chassis and reg LEJ 001:
The first of 4 ex MTT Adelaide AEC Regal Mark IVs with (Freighter) Lawton bodies. This one, former MTT number 749 new in Feb 1957, was 'trimmed' by Russell Mee in June 1973 and he used a similar front as on the new VAM in the previous photo. It was reg LPD 009:
And finally, the second new bus purchased by Kefford after the acquisition was this PMCSA Leyland Leopard, new in April 1977 and reg IUQ 925:
The first two photographs are by John Masterton, the third is an official Freighter photo, the fourth is by Bruce Tilley and the remainder are by Geoff Mann with the exception of the Mee Bedford which comes from T&BT.
though I do remember as a young boy sitting down at the yard with on site live manager Rick Murphy, and being able to play in all the buses on a sunday. life was easy then. these days you cant get in to most of these places without getting past some sort of security, maybe thats a good thing i suppose as u dont want just any loony bin walking the yards. Anymore of the buses numbered 40 onwards, post some pic's.they were good old volvos but dont know were they ended up.!!
