Motor Body Specialists
Industry | Bus manufacturing |
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Founded | 1964 |
Headquarters | Eagle Farm, Australia |
Motor Body Specialists was an Australian bus bodybuilder in Eagle Farm, Brisbane.
History
Motor Body Specialists commenced operations in 1964 bodying Bedford and Leyland.[1] In January 1965, it signed a deal to distribute Commonwealth Engineering bodied buses in Queensland and northern New South Wales.[2]
By the mid-1980s the operation had been renamed Rogers and it was concentrating on bodying Isuzu and later Hino chassis.[3] By 1990 341 chassis has been bodied.[3]
References
- ↑ Travers, Greg (1979). The Australian Private Bus. Sydney: Historic Commercial Vehicle association. p. 69. ISBN 0 959601 61 9.
- ↑ Dunn, John (2008). Comeng: A history of Commonwealth Engineering: Volume 2: 1955-1966. Rosenberg Publishing. p. 315. ISBN 1877058734.
- 1 2 "Motor Body Specialists" Australian Bus Panorama issue 5/5 March 1990 page 22
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