SHOWBUS AUSTRALIA BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Rover Motors
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 The other SB400, 7 (3466MO), seemed to be receiving similar attention at the far end of the adjacent shed alongside one of the Coach Concepts bodied coaches.
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 A long line of bus and coach rear ends in the yard. Closest is one of three Higer Munro 28 seaters, M6 (TV466A) of 2013, next a Coach Concepts bodied MAN 18.280 43 (4596MO) of 2008, then 39 (7950MO) a 2016 Iveco CB80 with year older sister 38 (1528MO) two further along. In between is 48 (4594MO) one of a pair of 2006 Custom CB60 Evo II bodied MAN 18.280.
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 Higer Munro M5 (TV465A), like M6, was new to Murrays in 2013. The third Munro M2 (TV600) was bought new in 2016.
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 Also in the yard was M3 (TV9058) a 2017 Iveco Daily marketed as "Rover Refined" in its black limo livery. By July it had been transferred to Berrima Buslines as their 12 (1597MO).
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 This White 54A model from 1930 required state regulations to be relaxed to enable its operation. The low slung chassis was one of the first in the country fitted with air brakes and the body by Walsh Island Dockyard in Newcastle was the first all metal body built in Australia. It entered service on route 42 between Campsie and the city for Deluxe Bus Service, shortly after being joined by three similar motors. Their use was short lived, falling foul of the new legislation in 1931. Stored until 1937 the four operated for the NSW state from Fitzgibbon depot, this White becoming number 1500. Two years later it was off again, sold to Rover Motors. It later passed to Quodling Brothers in Queanbeyan who recognised the significance of the bus and donated it to the Sydney Bus Museum’s collection in the sixties where it was photographed in November 3016.
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