Cam in Oz has obviously been delving in hios archives to come up with this lot. "Hi Brian,I was e-mailing Vic about a bus-driving escapade the other night involving a dunny (in the bus) and a quick bit of defensive driving which had the a passenger on his arse (pants down) sitting beside the driver resulting in a skid mark (not on the road)...." Aussie humour there--BLB! (And for a pie what's the microbus above?)
Anyway,these are some pics of some buses my grandfather owned.The Inters were called side loaders,there was a series of doors down the left hand side.They were all the go at the time. Most of these pics are probobly taken mid-to-late 50`s,possibly early 60`s.See Ya,Cam.
And for a couple ,ore what are these?
Looks like the first abortive attempt at a stretched limo!? Now click through here for more...
Now here's an unusual thing... But what is it?
And a Morris to finish with...
Hi,
the microbus is a Tempo Matador, a German Car from the fifties/sixties with an Austin A50 engine.
Is the first microbus a Hanomag?
the first picture is of a Tempo Matador.
later taken over by Hanomag which used the design for its vans(F20-35 series) which later was overtaken by Mercedes Benz who rebadged the vans to L 206/307 series.
Tempo Rapid 8 seater coach
1950 - 53 International AL 162 and 56-59 AS
Diamond T
Morris J2
Interesting with the Internationals. We had similar vehicles in NZ as well, mostly pre war, called Service Coaches, one of the most popular makes being Cadillacs which were bought second hand in America, shipped out to New Zealand and stretched out to similar lengths to the Inters. A guy from Auckland whose family was connected with the motor industry (forgotten name) would go over to California and when he saw suitable vehicles on the road, he would track the vehicle and attempt to purchase it on the spot when they stopped. They had trouble with the Cadillac diff talking the extra weight so put the mechanicals and brakes adapted to Ford truck back axles which fixed the problems. Have a photo somwhere of a very early one.
Cheers
H
That large blue bus appears to be based on a Dodge truck, except that it seems to have too many letters across the front. Perhaps it's one of the ones for the export market that was badged as a Plymouth?
The tan bus with "Border Coaches" on the side is of course another cornbinder like the ones above it, but I'm not sure of the model. (Do they call them cornbinders on your side of the pond?)
That top one was called a Tempo Matador, I think. They were front wheel drive and were built in a number of countries - Germany, UK (by Jensen Motors) Spain, Uruguay etc. The older ones had VW engines and transmissions driving the front wheels.
Some classy machinery there, except for the J2 at the bottom; they were awful! The one above it looks like part of the Dodge family, the badge on the side of the bonnet looks like 2 separate words, so probably De Soto.
Well I had to cheat on the first one, A Tempo Matador about a 1960 model I would say.
Then we have AL and AS Inters, An AS Inter and FC Holden and an AL Inter.
The blue one is a De Soto
Hi, OK It is a Tempo Matador (Circa 1960) which in Germany had a VW motor but in Australia had the Austin A70 Engine and was front wheel drive the interesting thing is that 30 years later VW changed to front wheel drive Note the similarity in style. The Desota actually had a Canadian motor so dont know which country produced the chassis as Australia did get Dodges from Kew (UK). The AL130 came from a Sydney bodybuilder BUT the AS130 was the second vehicle built by Allen Denning (Dennings became one of the top Coach Builders in Australia)Borders 130 Inters were fitted with crash boxes, the first Denning was also a AS130 Sideloader for Glanvilles, Border Coaches had a long association with Dennings even after they were taken over by BLMC. The J2 Morris was nearly as unpopular as the Tempo but they did a job.