Birdseye Buses

I had some info sent to me and Birdseye Buses of the Eyre Peninsula was mentioned but no other info about them .
So has anyone on here heard of this company and do they still exist or have they been taken over.

G'day Dave check out Langs Rabbit flat R/house latest post you might want to talk to him
www.hcvc.com.au/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1397700494

Jon

Dave, I don't know of them but just recently I saw a mention of the name somewhere, maybe it was on Facebook, I just not sure. Cheers Tim

It doesn't appear in either historic or current lists in Australian bus fleet lists.
< fleetlists.busaustralia.com/index-sa.php?historic=yes> ;
I will have trouble tracking my notes and photos.
IIRC my first Eyre Peninsula holiday was in my EK.
It was the second where I travelled with a range of bus operators. In that era, Adelaide - Whyalla had a trunk operator or two. Local connections were three way: converging at Minnipa from Whyalla, Port Lincoln and Ceduna at lunchtime; cross exchanging passengers and parcels; then returning to base. One of the three was simply a medium rigid van, with space for two passengers in the cab.

Google brought up this great page:
< www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=438&c=7377> ;
There may be more.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Thanks Rodders I looked them up They ran Reos and started in 1921 - 1962 they had Sunday Mail (newspaper) run which was 1460 kmone of the longnest runs in the world.

I can just remember when Birdseye ran to the west coast, it was a very long time ago.

Here is some more information, courtesy of Google.

adb.anu.edu.au/biography/birdseye-sylvia-jessie-catherine-9511

www.flickr.com/photos/74822643@N07/sets/...629683876453/detail/

RnR.

I was very interested to read the info about Sylvia Birdseye. I remember riding on one of her buses around 1960. We left Arno Bay on our way back to Adelaide and the bus had been over booked and I being a young lad sat on a box in the isle at the back,until somewhere between Whyalla and Port Augusta where the bus stopped and we where met by Sylvia herself in a car to pick up me and a young lady and drive us into Port Augusta where maybe some passengers got off leaving seats for us.I don't know where she drove from but I remember being very honoured to be picked up by Mrs. Birdseye.We now have the Birdseye Roadhouse in Cleve and the Birdseye Highway from Cowell to Cleve in recognition of here services to us back in those days.