Featured Bus
Featured Bus – September/October 2018
Bus 442 was a MAN SL200 delivered to ACTION in April 1976. It was written off following an accident on 23 August 1982.
Bus 442 was a MAN SL200 delivered to ACTION in April 1976. It was written off following an accident on 23 August 1982.
Bus 410 was an MAN SL200 which operated for ACTION between 1975 and 1991.
Ex-494 on Putty Road, Mt Thorley en route to Canberra. Photo by ‘Bus 400’.
Between 1975 and 1981, ACTION purchased 151 MAN SL200 with bodies by three different builders: Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, Smithfield Bus and Coach Works and Custom Coaches.
The slow delivery offered by some manufacturers encouraged the Department to seek alternative suppliers of buses. Germany’s standard municipal VOV bus was thought to be an attractive solution to Canberra’s problem and when tenders were called in late 1974 for forty-seven buses, MAN of Munich successfully tendered for ten complete Read more…
Former ACTION Bus 493 (MAN SL200 / CAC body) at Albury Art Gallery, Dean St Albury. Photo by ‘AOQ951’.