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| ! colspan="3" align=center bgcolor=#CCCCFF| Bus 231
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| | valign=top | '''Chassis'''
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| | [[:Category:Bedford SB3|Bedford SB3]]
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| | valign=top | '''Depot'''
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| | Kingston
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| | valign=top | '''Entered Service'''
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| | 2 August 1974
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| | valign=top | '''Removed from Service'''
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| | August 1976
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| | valign=top | '''Desto Equipment'''
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| | Roller blind
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| | valign=top | '''VIN'''
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| | NFM 2BJ J401377
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| | valign=top | '''Body'''
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| | Pressed Metal Corporation Sydney
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| | valign-top | '''Body Number'''
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| | 1718
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| | valign=top | '''Body Date'''
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| | 1974
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| | valign=top | '''Seating'''
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| | B43F
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| | valign=top | '''Fuel'''
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| | Petrol
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| | valign=top | '''Gallery Album'''
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| | [http://www.actbus.net/gallery/ACTION-Buses-Disposals/Demo-short-term/Bus-231 Bus 231]
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| Bus 231 was a Bedford SB3
| | * [[BUS 501 (1)]] - MAN SL200 |
| | * [[BUS 501 (2)]] - MAN 18.320 |
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| ==Notes==
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| * Bus 231 was a stock unit purchased from Sydney dealer Suttons Motors Pty Ltd at time of 1974 vehicle shortage.
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| * It was first registered on 29 July 1974.
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| * After being withdrawn from service, Bus 231 was hired to ACT Police.
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| * In October 1976, 231 was transferred to the Special Duty Fleet, re-registered as ZID-612 and hired to the ACT Health Service in a new blue and white livery.
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| * It was later sighted in Jindabyne as MO5310 owned by Innes Williams, operating a Ingebyra to Jindabyne school run.
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| * In 1990, it was purchased by YMCA Canberra and repurposed as a "Night Bus".<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/120892838 Night bus to cruise Canberra's 'street kid' venues – ''Canberra Times'' via Trove (17 Jun 1990)]</ref>
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| ===References===
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| <references/>
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| [[Category:ACTION Disposals]]
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| [[Category:Bedford SB3]] | |
| [[Category:1974 Vehicle Shortage]]
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| [[Category:One-off Buses]]
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