>Strictly speaking this is not the first contract to Custom Coaches.
>Between 1957 and 1959 , 145 Leyland Worldmaster underfloor buses were
>bodied by C.C.M.C. which later became Custom Coaches. Also for the
>record, you may be surprised to know that Ansair, P.M.C. and Austral are
>all now part of one large company known as the Austral Pacific Bus
>Building Group.
>
You learn somthing every day, I never new the C.C.M.C ended up being
custom coaches. However considering the market that custom has been
building for (Ie non governement) I though it was suprising. Hopfully
the bodies abd build quailty are as good and attractive as the Orana
design. As for Ansair becoming part of APG that is where my concerns
for Tamworth come from. With the number of plants APG has, one cannot
see much future for the Tamworth plant, especialy since Custom now has
the STA contract. Although for some reason the new Volvo's that APG
were starting to build for STA were started in Tullamarine and not in
Tamworth. Some maybe the Tamworth plant was already winding up
production.