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Jerusalem's "PABT"/Desert Buses/Etc.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another view from '62.......

www.rr-fallenflags.org/nh/nh-RB018u01.jpg

(courtesy; Fallen Flags Railroads)
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 12:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The MICHELIN "RAIL COACH" (equipped with Goodyear tires).......

www.northeast.railfan.net/images/michelin3146.jpg

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Extensive photo gallery depicting a wide variety and diversity of vintage rail buses.....

www.northeast.railfan.net/self_prop.html

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When one is "Down Under", "Going Big Red" means traveling via GREYHOUND*....... Wink

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound_Australia

*Note that the buses wear florescent striping (and hazard lights) for increased visibility while operating on mining sites.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"AUSTRALIAN BUS IMAGE GALLERY" (Greyhound Pioneer Australia).....

www.showbus.com/australia/gallery/gpa.htm
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 12:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

See also:

www.showbus.com/australia/gallery/greyhound.htm
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 1:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

FLXIBLE "down under"........

In 1950, FLXIBLE-style CLIPPERS were built in Australia by ANSAIR, Pty. Ltd.; following the importation of the first FLXIBLE to ANSAIR in 1948.

The prototype and the first two ANSAIR-built CLIPPERS had small windows.

These were operated by PIONEER TOURS, a part of the ANSAIR operation.

ANSAIR built 131 of these buses between 1950 and 1960; most of these coaches were operated by PIONEER*.

Some of the later models had longer "VISICOACH"-style windows.

All, of course, were right-hand drive.......

"NYO"

*Most of the buses in PIONEER's fleet were British-built models.


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 1:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The now-defunct PIONEER COACHES ("The Blue Bus")......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Coaches
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 1:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdev_NSW
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"CLIPPERS" in Australia........

www.flxibleclipperclub.com.au/wp/
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2020 8:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In addition to the aforementioned CLIPPERS, this now-defunct Australian company also once operated GMC coaches, including 4104's, 4106's, as well as MCI's........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansett_Pioneer
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The ever-sleek, timeless, legendary EAGLE......not only to be seen here in the States, back in the day, but also, in Canada, Australia, Thailand, Belgium, and South Africa........

https://eaglesinternational.net/eagle-history/
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Between 1974 and 1978, MCI built 29 right-hand drive MC-8's for ANSETT in Australia.

In 1978, they also built 50 MC-8's for freeway express service in Taiwan.......

https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Motor_Coach_Industries_MC-8
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2020 1:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just a thought.......

It has long been said that "old GREYHOUND buses never die"; this, at least to Your's Truly, translates into vehicles that were built like the proverbial tank, and, if equipped with caterpillar treads, might well have been so used in some parts of the world! Wink

Seriously, when GREYHOUND operated in the Middle East, I wonder just how much maintenance the MCI's required to be able to function in such harsh conditions (sandstorms, excessive heat, etc.)

It had to be a pretty formidable task to keep "The Hounds" going over there; then again, I am sure many of those same issues hold true with modern bus operations in that part of the world......

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

One of the many mods they made to those Aramco MC-5's. was a 'sunshade' second roof over the first with an airgap between to help insulate against the intense desert sun.....



https://www.facebook.com/AwesomeDiecast/photos/in-1979-over-200-special-mc-5c-buses-were-built-by-greyhound-under-contract-from/1472380292839056/
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