Modern imports

Just in case anyone wants to know further, the harvester is a John Deere 9070 series STS header, and the Fendt is a 970 930 series vario

Hayseed, the government doesn't encourage manufacturing here at all.
One their brilliant anti recession schemes was to give the school bus operators a bit of a hand into buying new buses, but not enough money to buy an Australian one.
The Bus manufacturing seems to be going quite well here at the moment, Denning are accross the road from us and they have plenty on.
The airlines have killed the Bus companies line express operations, Greyhound have got contracts with the mines, which is probobly why those ones have the beacons.
Greyhound (and Pioneer before them) have been importing buses for years instead of using the local product. Flxible Clippers, MCI's and Eagle's.

Mmmm........fully built coaches, I guess not many coach builders left in Australia, are competitive.

Or signwriters, either >

Pretty sad indictment of our Manufacturing industry,
When It's more viable (I Guess) to import fully built up coachs, right down to the signwriting

Which way is the 'Skinny dog' meant to run on the front 'Seed?


chocs

Chocs,
I'd reckon the dog changed direction,
when the Coach crossed the Equater : :

Cam,

Only the first Flxible Clipper was imported as a prototype. The remaining 131 were built by Ansair at Essendon Airport.

Oops, forgot about that Jim. There was also the Bova's that were Bus Australia as well origonally then ended up at Greyhound.

Whilst the Bus Australia Bovas were certainly Dutch and with their Daf drivetrain were pretty good, they were assembled in Perth I think by Howard Porter or certainly an organisation set up to do so.
Whereas some new MAN and Scanias buses have been brought here to test the market, I think the MAN is from Egypt and the Scania is Chinese.

Now the MCI's and Eagles (Gold and Silver) would have been imported though.

Perhaps they should get that dog to bark, or change the logo on the front to a kanga. I heard yesterday a group of japanese tourists early last week were on the skinny travelling south of the Blackall stump, and were shocked to see both icons of the national coat of arms bouncing off the front.

Our charter work is very quiet at the moment 98% of our fleet is on mines on dry hire we however are guilty of buying busses from overseas mostly china as you can buy 2 BCI busses for the price of a denning volgren etc etc they also seem to be relatively bulletproof to the majoraty of problems appear to be stemming from dust getting in to bearings and the like.We still retain a fleet of denning s but obtaining parts is our biggest problem and sadly our three tour masters went to the scrappies they we just rotten the salt out at kalgoolie ate them .

Just in case anyone wants to know further, the harvester is a John Deere 9070 series STS header, and the Fendt is a 970 930 series vario

Looks like a new S680 Ad blue John Deere Header too me.... 70 series is old news