>Bill Bolton wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 18 Nov 1997 18:12:29 +1100, Bob <gioia@bmr.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> >Up till now they were built in Tamworth which is a former liberal
>> >now independant held seat. More jobs for the boys.
>>
>> If I recall correctly, the contract which ended up with the bus body
>> building being performed in Tamworth was issued under a L/NP state
>> government. Prior to that they were built largely built in various
>> locations in Sydney.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>
>Just to clarify my point, all government buses between 1967 and 1991
>were built at Pressed Metal Corperation at Revesby. In 1992 the then
>Liberal State Government awarded the new contract to Ansair. Ansair had
>a factory in Melbourne and part of the deal with Sydney was to set up a
>new factory in N.S.W. to manufacture the new buses. The prefered site
>was around Golbourn as Ansair were also building for buses for Canberra.
>The Independant member for Tamworth aparently did a deal with the
>minority Liberal Government and the new Ansair plant was built at
>Tamworth. The Latest contract has been awarded to Custom Coaches at
>Guilford. Hope this makes sense
>.
Is this the first government contract for Custom Coaches?? Also
wonder what will become of Tamworth now?? Also for the record at the
same time ACTION was renwing their contract, however Ansair lost it
and it went to what was known as Austral in Brisbane. Sadly since then
ACTION's latest buses have been imported from Ireland of all places.
Lets hope that is somthing that will not continue.
PS. I know this is a rail group, but the dopes from Ozemail have
deleted the AUS.TRANSPORT N/G from the system and they have not put it
back despite my asking.