Notice any similarities between the two?
The top one is a Denning, the bottom one a GBW.
Is it? Ian Lynas (the photog) says itās MCA, canāt 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.
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?
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.
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 canāt remember where or how now.
Hereās a rabbit hole for you to wander down, Spardo.
Iāll 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, āsheāll 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.
Hang on a minute Buzzā¦err SDU, there is a perfectly good reason for that. The first time I was in Oz I didnāt 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.
@spardo If you come back, Iāll 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.
Shame, thereās a special on Kodak.
Thereās more than one way to skin a cat, but youāll 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, Iām sure my son would pinch it. He proudly boasts that he doesnāt own a car older than himself. He has an ancient 240, that goes like a cut cat.