White semitrailer bus

Ripper pics, SalorV and the rest of you blokes..just great.
Anyone know why these went out of fashion / or became illegal? Did one come off or something? That wouldn't be too flash, would it....
cheers
Richard

The main issues with them were probably:
1) Expensive to run, needing a two man crew
2) Drop in bus passenger travel from the 1950s made their higher carrying capacity unnecessary
3) Size made them difficult to drive in increasing traffic
4) larger rigid buses becoming permitted allowed similar capacity in less length

I'm not aware that they were banned for any reason

RE: I'm not aware that they were banned for any reason

Guess n out side the square here

Probly a law introduced 'No Passengers in Trailers"

I found this while researching something else.
WA semitrailer buses (20 vehicles):
www.perthbus.info/prequery.php?qqid=7901...83736470000&ccid=790

I bet that investigation from the home page will bring up those in other states too.


Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Here is a link to the Bus aust site showing the NEMCO White Trailer bus

www.busaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=31283&start=25

Interesting that a former Mechanic of Bonds has also posted on the forum.
The grandson of the founder, Bruce also gave me this photo a few years ago and said they didn't keep the bus long as it used to pass the truck quite regularly and got its self into strife once hitting a bridge. Eventually New England Motor Co was taken over by Kirklands around 1970.

New England Airways was also started by George Robinson in the early 30's and suffered a big blow with the Stinson disaster on Lamington Plateau with only 2 survivors. Another one crashing at Archerfield not long after and subsequent Stinson aircraft seconded into the war effort they all didn't last long.

Brisbane City Council, Tramways Workshops built buses (amongst other things like wooden guns )for the Australian Government, the buses were very basic and were to take workers from Moorooka to the Rocklea ammunitions factory and Archerfield Aerodrome assembly plants during WW2.
There are a couple of photos in the Nat archives of these, but not as good as the Council one held at Toowong Bus Workshops, which I will try to post.
Some of the items were supplied by Fowlers' of which I have a copy of an invoice, and seem to predate the Landliners. Unfortunately these buses too didn't last long and one was hit by a drunk negro driving an American truck at the Ipswich Rd bridge over the creek at Granard Rd intersection and ripped out the side of the bus and killed several people inside.

There was also a White Semi trailer bus at the Sydney Bus Museum when it was at Tempe.

I wouldn' mind one of those bus trailers to stick behind the Commer. Where can I find one?

Right here:
www.hcvc.com.au/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1352707645/2#2

Here's a nice Commer semi trailer bus for you, from the 1960s:

Here is one of mine.

680205M Gladstone (Qld) semitrailer bus, White prime mover. (Roderick Smith)

Roderick

Hi Roderick, it is a White. The operator would have been Jerakowski, I'm not sure how it is spelt. In about 1976 my Father bought the business off the son after the old bloke died. Probobly the same one second from the left in my picture. Often wondered what colour they were. Could I ask where you got the photo and are there any more of the Gladstone fleet?

Cam (and all):
I took the photo. Gladstone was much smaller then. I was exploring on foot from a morning arrival by train to an afternoon departure, so it can't have been far from the station, loco depot and coal loader. It was the only one which I took of a bus that day.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor