Collection 07: Peter Anderson photographs of Sydney and NSW buses, 1925-1975

PXA 2105

sub-fonds

1925-1975

1225976

38 photographic prints - black & white - 15 x 20.5 cm - 20.5 x 25.5 cm

These commercial photographs by various photographers document a variety of buses manufactured between 1925 and 1975, for operation in Sydney, suburban areas and regional New South Wales, including Newcastle, Kempsey, Lismore, Wollongong and Katoomba.

SYDNEY AND SUBURBAN BUSES
1. AEC [Associated Equipment Company], 1920s, WAC Jones?, G. H. Olding body / Milton Kent
2. Albion, 1930s / Milton Kent
3. 1920s?, AEC [Associated Equipment Company], solid tyres, body by G. H. Olding, Sydney / Milton Kent
4. 1930s, Albion, NSW DGT [Department of Government Transport], Sydney / S. J. Hood
5. Chevrolet, Syd Wood body, MO 332, 1930s, Sinclair & Schofield proprietors / Milton Kent
6. Ruggles bus, Syd Wood body NSW MO 552, 1920s, A. Marrin prop[rietor] / Row & Woolley
7. NSW MO 943, Albion, MC Vicars, Lidcombe, 1930s / Milton Kent
8. Syd Wood body, 1925, AEC [Associated Equipment Company], MO 749 / Milton Kent
9. 1920s Chevrolet bus, Park St & Eliz St Sydney [group of men and boys in front of bus] / S. J. Hood
10. Hare & Lane proprietors, Republic – Bondi Beach – Central Railway, 1920s / Milton Kent
11. Bedford 1938, Syd Wood body, Western Rd Transport
12. AEC [Associated Equipment Company], Syd Wood body, Parramatta Bus Co Route 200
13. Leyland Tiger OP 54, 45 seater, MBA body, T. G. Scott & Sons, West Hoxton prop / James Howarth
14. Bedford, Syd Wood body, 1938, Innes Bros & Drover, Arncliffe, Arncliffe - Bexley
15. Thornycroft, Syd Wood body, 1950s, Punchbowl Bus Co., W, Geoghan proprietor
16. Atkinson, Com. Eng. [Commonwealth Engineering] body, NSW MO 847, Hurstville – Lugarno / Milton Kent
17. 1946 GMC, Com. Eng. [Commonwealth Engineering] body / Milton Kent

NEWCASTLE AND NORTHERN NEW SOUTH WALES BUSES
18. Leyland, 1930s, Foggs Motor Service, Newcastle / McLeod & Smith
19. Route 21, A. Hancock prop, Newcastle, 1930s / Milton Kent
20. Albion, Hancock Newcastle, 1920s-1930s [interior of bus] / Milton Kent
21. 1936 Bedford, Syd Wood body
22. 1936 Ford V/8, Syd Wood body
23. Ford Thames, Hedges body
24. Bedford, Hedges body, Sheaff[e’s], Lismore / D’Arcy Pforr
25. Bedford, Hedges body, Kirklands, Lismore / H. B. Green
26. Bedford, Hedges body, Kirklands, Lismore
27. Bedford, Custom Coaches body, Kirklands, Lismore / Elton Ward
28. Ford, Watt Bros body, Qld, 1930s
29. SB Bedford, Watt Bros body / H. B. Green & Co
30. AEC [Associated Equipment Company] no. 28, Hedges body Qld, became MO 4449, bus burnt out Clunes 1966 / H. B. Green & Co

KATOOMBA, WOLLONGONG, PORT KEMBLA AND COOMA BUSES
31. Man, diesel, 1938, Syd Wood body, Blue Mtns Transport, Katoomba
32. Leyland Comet, ECP 0/12, 33 seat, Properts body, Blue Mtns Transport Co / Visatone
33. 1938 Bedford, Syd Wood body, Dions, [Wollongong]
34. 1938 Albion, Syd Wood body, Hills Bus Service, ?Wollongong, C.X.II. W. C. Wentworth, Port Kembla, N.S.W. / Milton Kent
35. 1920s Ruggles bus, Syd Wood body, Ruttys / Milton Kent
36. 1937 Ford V/8, Cheetham & Borwick body, Balmain Bros, Cooma / Edwin G. Adamson

OTHER BUSES
37. International, Propert body
38. New Hino, Domino Hedges body, 1975

Collection arranged according to location by cataloguer, December 2014

Copyright restrictions may apply: Photographs in this collection created before 1955 are all out of copyright. Photographs created after 1955 are in copyright for the life of the photographer plus 70 years.
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Titles chiefly taken from reverse of photographs

Photographs stamped: "Peter Andersen Photo", "Peter Anderson Photo" or "From P.Andersen"