Photo of the Month
Photo of the Month – August 2020
Recently retired buses (ex-108 & ex-967) have a get-together beside Lake Burley Griffin on a foggy morning. Photo by ‘King of Buses’.
Photo of the Month
Photo of the Month – October 2019
Bus 967 travels along Bugden Avenue. Photo by ‘King of Buses’.
#Photo of the Year 2019
Featured Bus
Featured Bus – September/October 2017
Buses 963, 967 and 971 are Renault/MACK PR100.2 (“Mk2”) buses bodied by Ansair, which entered service with ACTION in mid-1992.
Photo of the Month
Photo of the Month – September 2017
894 & 898 pose beside Lake Burley Griffin prior to departing Canberra for their new home. Photo by ‘743’.
#Photo of the Year: 2017
Featured Bus
Featured Bus – November/December 2014
Bus 870 was the first Mk2 Renault PR100.2 bus. It operated between 1990 and 2015.
Featured Bus
Featured Bus – September 2012
Bus 880 was a Renault PR100.2 (Mk2) which operated between 1990 and 2015. It is notable for having carried seven different liveries, six of them advertising liveries.
Featured Bus
Featured Bus – May 2012
Bus 982 is a Renault PR100.2 Mk2 which is the last of the 258 Renault PR100.2 buses delivered to ACTION over a six year period from 1987 to 1993.
Featured Article
Bus 914: accident in Holt
Shortly before 11:00am on 25 February 2008, Bus 914, a Belconnen-based Renault PR100.2 Mk2 was operating Route 44 along Beaurepaire Crescent in Holt when it left the road, colliding with a tree and electrical substation.
Fleet
Renault PR100.2 Mk2 Specifications
The model 870 -982 Class Renault chassis were assembled by MACK Trucks in Brisbane and then freighted to Melbourne. Ansair Bus & Coach Division at Tullamarine built the bodies.