Australia then and now

Notice any similarities between the two?
The top one is a Denning, the bottom one a GBW.

Is it? Ian Lynas (the photog) says itā€™s MCA, canā€™t tell myself.

Similarities everywhere btw yours and a Denning and MCA, the subtleties escape me.

@parkroyal2100 My mistake, I an should have picked it from the window and windscreen lines. I zoomed in on the grill to read the make, then saw it above the door. :roll_eyes:

Compare this one.

The blue one is a GBW, the initials of the senior managers who bought the intellectual property when Denning went belly up.

Anyone got a pic of a Redline, like the one the other passengers and I had to push to bump start it at the first stop out of Darwin heading for the Alice? :rofl:

Looking at those green AECs reminds me of my first visit to Sydney in 1964 (I think). They all looked like that and were ancient even then to my eye.




I hope this bus isnā€™t going to be as elusive as the railmotor.

The bottom one is an Albion or am i stating the obvious?

Albion Clydesdale were popular as Äŗong distance coaches.

The one I pushed was nowhere near as posh as that one.
I thought I had nailed the phantom Railmotor, but I canā€™t remember where or how now. :confused:

Hereā€™s a rabbit hole for you to wander down, Spardo.

Iā€™ll meet you down there.

Interesting, but non of the coaches pictured looks like the one I pushed. Maybe it was some old wreck he put on the little 1,500 km run to The Alice saying at the time, ā€˜sheā€™ll be right, mateā€™.

Spardo, you seem to be making a habit of traveling in vehicles of which there are no photos. Best you come back and take photos of all vehicles offering you a ride, then my Land Rovers will be preserved, for prosperity, in photographic perpetuity. :grin::+1:

Hang on a minute Buzzā€¦err SDU, there is a perfectly good reason for that. The first time I was in Oz I didnā€™t own a camera. The second time I did, but I had arrived in India stony broke and sent for the last penny in my UK bank account which just stretched to cover Qantasā€™ demand to get me to Darwin, but only without the large suitcase I had with me, so that had to be left with Cox and Kings in Delhi. Which had the camera in it. ;-(

Not quite the largest regret of my life, but certainly up there, and I made up for it only after retirement when I started transporting dogs, of which there are plenty of pics and vids. :joy:

@spardo If you come back, Iā€™ll buy you a camera.

I think you know that you are on safe ground there, I have taken a no fly vow and the days when cargo ships took passengers my age are long gone. :rofl:

Shame, thereā€™s a special on Kodak. :wink:

Thereā€™s more than one way to skin a cat, but youā€™ll need a waterproof GPS.

I was watching an episode of Outback Car Hunters last night. They did a Holden and a P1800 Volvo. Those P1800s are going for big money over here. Get one done up and export it to the UK SDU and make yourself a bob or two

If only, I rather fancy one myself, but if I could get hold of one, Iā€™m sure my son would pinch it. He proudly boasts that he doesnā€™t own a car older than himself. He has an ancient 240, that goes like a cut cat.



A couple from the past

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