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For more information on items from the Omnibus Society shop email obnz@paradise.net.nz

Please send orders with payment by cash or cheque in New Zealand Dollars to: Omnibus Society, PO Box 9801, Wellington 6141, New Zealand. Please remember to add postage and packaging. Please make cheques payable to 6117 Ltd

Calendar

Full colour 2006 calendar featuring both modern and preserved buses in Australia. $10-00

Books

"Otago Road Services Ltd. A brief history"The definitive history of one of the South's most enduring private companies. $20-00 "A Driving Force" A history the Laugesen familiy and the Midland Group of Companies. The rise and fall of one of New Zealands most individual operators. $30-00
"Birkenheads Buses" Ian & Elayne Robertson's comprehensive documenting of the history of one of Auckland's surviving family owned bus companies. Based of a large number of interviews its more than just a fleet list. $30-00 "Tranzit Through Time"The story of where one of the growing forces in today's passenger transport sector comes from. $30-00

Badges and tie bars

Stagecoach 500 series MANWCCT MAN SL202H&H Hino StarlinerGreyhound Ford
Cityline Hino RK176 Stagecoach coloursGreyhound DaimlerNZRRS Volvo B10MH&H Isuzu KS32
Cityline Hino RK176Newmans Mercedes 0303PNCC LeylandPNCC Hino CN
Stagecoach 200 series Volvo trolleyMt Cook DenningNew Plymouth MANWCCT 119 BUT Trolley
Stagecoach 500 series MANH&H Hino StarlinerMidland Starliner

Not shown WCCT 39 (silver Ghost) trolley bus
To be produced: Stagecoach 2400 series MAN 17.223 tag axle citybus. Stagecoach 300 series trolleybus.

Cost is $6-00 or for 5 or more $5-00ea

Omnibus Bulletin

Back issues are available at $5.00 each. See Article Index

O B Monograph Series

The Omnibus Bulletin published a number of monographs (small soft cover booklets) on a range of topics. Who knows, one day we may publish some more.

The monographs issued to date are:
1. Bedford VAL Twinsteers in NZ $2-00
2. NZ Half Cab Buses $5-00
3. Modern Motor Bodies Ltd $5-00
4. New Zealand's AEC Buses $5-00
5. Imported Coachwork in NZ (now overtaken by the used import flood) $ 5-00
6. Sundry British Bus Marques in NZ (lists a range of UK sourced chassis but excludes those from AEC, Bedford, BMC, Ford & Leyland) $5-00
7. One day this one - on the Eastbourne Borough Council will come out….
8. Buses of the CTB $7-50
9. Southern City Transport $7-50 ( Dunedin, Invercargill, Timaru)
10. Northern City Transport $7-50 (covers Eastbourne, Gisborne, New Plymouth,Palmerston North, Upper Hutt, Waikanae, Wanganui)
11. Wellington City Transport $7-50
12. Auckland's Local Authority Buses $10-00

If anyone wants to add to this series, please contact the Society. You get the glory, but we can't afford to pay our writers !
Topics which could be covered include :- an NZRRS fleet listing, definitive listings of Leyland Buses in NZ, Ford Buses in NZ, or a smaller task - the Austin/Morris /BMC source vehicles. A really brave person could take on the documenting of the Bedford bus in NZ.

Postage and Packaging

Group 1: Calendars, Badges (up to 10), Monographs and up to 5 back issues of OB
Group 2: Other books

New Zealand Addresses
Group 1: $1-00
Group 2: $3-00 per item

Overseas Addresses (Economy air)
Group 1: $NZ5-00
Group 2: $NZ10-00 per item (refunds will be given if actual posateg cheaper)

Please send orders with payment by cash or cheque in New Zealand Dollars to: Omnibus Society, PO Box 9801, Wellington, New Zealand. Please make cheques payable to 6117 Ltd.

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