Sunday History Photo, NSW / SA

I remember seeing one of these types of buses passing by my old home on the Gorge Rd Athelstone,SA around the years 1948/53, It was a Conventional Cab so could have been the one in the photo at the bottom,
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This vehicle is one of 123 semi-trailer type buses built and operated in Australia between 1939 and 1984. Most were constructed as specialised or one-off units. Only Motor Body Assemblers (M.B.A.) of Camperdown, N.S.W was successful in obtaining sufficient orders to warrant a standardised approach to the manufacture of the bodies.
Semi-trailer buses were a superb alternative, high capacity people mover, which became popular during the second world war when double deck chassis could not be obtained from Britain. While semi-trailers trucks went on to become highly developed for freight transport, it was the walk-through "bendy" articulated bus that subsequently became the passenger carrying alternative.
The Semi-Trailer bus body is of timber frame construction and was built by Parramatta Bus Co., Northmead, N.S.W. in December 1947. An A.E.C. Matador was the original prime mover used to pull the trailer body. The complete semi-trailer bus was used on the firm's services from Parramatta to 'The Hills' district. The combination was registered m/o.352. It was deregistered in December 1952 and sold to George Clements, proprietor of Nambucca Heads Bus Service in 1954. It was soon resold to Mr Sinclair a Dundas operator. After extensive overhaul, it was reregistered m/o.002 in 1956. Mr Clements bought the unit again in 1957 and it became MO.4466, fleet No.1. In January 1962 it was sold with the company to Pell's Nambucca Bus Service. A Leyland Comet prime mover was substituted in 1972. When withdrawn in 1977, it was the last semi-trailer bus in service in N.S.W.
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