MAN SL200 – ACT Bus

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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.

By ACT Bus, 3 years5 months ago

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Featured Bus – September/October 2014

Bus 410 was an MAN SL200 which operated for ACTION between 1975 and 1991.

By ACT Bus, 7 years5 months ago

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Featured Bus – September 2013

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.

By ACT Bus, 8 years ago

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MAN SL200

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…

By ACT Bus, 9 years5 months ago