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Recovering from the war |
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Fifteen ‘Lend-Lease’ Fords with Hercules, Ford and Chevrolet engines and bodies by Cheetham & Borthwick, Melbourne, served in the early post-war years. Some later became service vehicles. KS Kings |
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H F Morphett used this semi-trailer bus to handle heavy post-war passenger loads to Kilburn.
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Wilson and Foote ran this bus, known as the ‘pie cart’, to
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Fifty AEC Regal Mark III diesel buses, fitted with pre-selector gear-shifts entered service in 1947-51. MTT. |
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A privately owned Ford, fitted with a modified body from a Tramways Mack. |
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As suburbs expanded after World War II, bus routes were added to the tram services. Here, AEC Regal III 201 connects with a Cheltenham tram at the terminus to take passengers to Port Adelaide. DC Black |
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Three-door buses began arriving in 1954 to replace the trams. A total of 308 were built over the next 5 years. MTT. |
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Private buses to new suburbs |
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As suburbs expended rapidly to the North-east and South-west of Adelaide, private companies were called upon to provide buses to these new areas. These services were licensed by the Municipal Tramways Trust |
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Top: At Elizabeth, Transway used old MTT buses
Middle:Rex Slattery ran to Klemzig, Beefacres Dernancourt
Bottom:The Bowman family pioneered services to Tea Tree Gully.
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Top: Campbell’s ran to the South Western suburbs
Middle:Worthley’s operated between Seacliff, Glenelg and Graymore.
Bottom:Bridgeland Passenger Services bus at Marion Shopping Centre |
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The swinging sixties |
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Thirty AEC Regal Mark VI buses were introduced in the 1960s with the ‘Forward Look’. Many were painted subsequently in a special livery for use on the then newly established ‘Circle Line’ linking all the inner suburbs together in the 1970s. John Radcliffe
Adelaide’s first enclosed double-deck bus is washed after arriving from Sydney in April 1936. By the 1960s, the MTT had replaced all the double-deck diesels. The Advertiser |
HF Morphett’s bus fleet displayed at Adelaide Oval 1946. Morphett Services |
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Full Circle |
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History repeats itself: Private buses arrived in the 1920s but were bought out by the government in 1928. They reappeared in the late 1930s but were bought out by the government in 1972. Government buses were fully privately operated by 2000.
TransAdelaide was formed as a government operating business unit from 4 July 1994 to take over operating transport services from the State Transport Authority. Ownership of buses passed to the Passenger Transport Board, then later to the Department of Transport, Energy and Infrastructure. TransAdelaide had to compete with private operators to run the bus services. Serco and Hills Transit took over some routes in 1996. All bus routes were privately operated from 23 April 2000. Some operators have supplemented buses leased from the government with additionally purchased buses. TransAdelaide continues to run the trams and suburban trains 
In 1974, the MTT again took over the private buses. Services were fully integrated with those of the newly created State Transport Authority from 5 February 1977. Picture shows former private buses lined up at Morphettville depot that morning. John Radcliffe |
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O-Bahn buses have operated at up to 100kph on the guideway. John Radcliffe |
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During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the State Transport Authority ran interstate services under the ‘Roadliner’ banner. STA |
Close-up view of the guide wheel mounted on the steering arm ahead of the front wheel. STA |
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AEC Swift buses provided the free ‘Beeline’ and City Loop services in the early 1980s. Distinctive colour schemes were used. STA |
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By 2000, Passenger Transport MAN buses, now privately operated, were gas-driven, wheelchair accessible, and had ‘kneeling’ for the handicapped. Ian Hammond |
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Southlink bus 2806 is one of the large articulated buses serving the rapidly expanding far southern suburbs.
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The first section of the O-Bahn guided busway was handed over on 7 July 1983. Later extended to TeaTree Plaza, no other comparable guided busways had been completed any where in the world by 2010. STA
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