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On the home front, Ansair was busy building a new coach aimed at meeting the needs of Pioneer’s long distance tours and routes. Top & Left: Restored 1946 Ansair Roadcruiser / International KB6 owned by Moonee Valley Bus Lines, Melbourne VIC, June 2016 Right: Ansair Roadcruiser / Ford advertisement, circa late 1940sġ947 Ansair Reo ‘Pusher’ P-005 prototype Roadliner model 96H, at Ansair Factory Essendon VIC, 1947 (Photo from the Max Taylor collection, courtesy of Sydney Bus Museum Archives)Īnsair executives made two visits to the US in 1947 visiting US coach builder Flxible. Legal maximum lengths varied in each Australian state, but in Ansett’s home state of Victoria it was just 27 feet 6 inches.

ATI owner, Reg Ansett, favoured a US General Motors coach, the GM PD 3751 ‘Silversides’, which Greyhound in the USA was using at the time, but because of its 35 foot length it was not able to be brought into Australia. Pioneer Tours was looking for a more sophisticated and capable coach to operate its long distance routes. Ansair was the bus body building division of Ansett Transport Industries. In the late 1940’s, Pioneer Tours owned by Ansett Transport Industries (ATI), was operating conventional, engine out front International KB6’s, Ford’s and Federal’s with Ansair ‘Road Cruiser’ bodies. Flxible declared bankruptcy in 1995 and at the time was the largest transit bus manufacturer in the USA.

The company moved into commercial vehicle production and later found a lucrative niche with its art deco, streamlined Clipper coach first released in 1937. The ‘e’ in flexible was later dropped so the name of the company could be trademarked. The model designation AF34 stands for: AF - Ansair Flxible, 34 - build number.įlxible was founded in 1913 as the Flexible Side Car Company by inventor and entrepreneur Hugo H Young in Loudenville, Ohio USA, based on the development of a flexible coupling to improve stability of motorcycle sidecars. Our Ansair Flxible Clipper AF34, is powered by a GM Diesel 2 stroke engine, model 4-71, 284ci, in line 4 cylinder with a 5 speed Fuller constant mesh transmission.

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1954 Ansair Flxible Clipper in Driver colours after completion of restoration, Narooma NSW, February 1985 The restoration was completed by January 1985 for the 30th anniversary re-enactment of Pioneer’s first non-stop service to Sydney on January 24 1955.

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Bill was not so much a bus enthusiast but a Clipper enthusiast! 1954 Ansair Flxible Clipper AF34 as purchased, Woori Yallock VIC, September 1983īill shipped the Flxible to Melbourne, without its original Leyland engine and transmission, where it was acquired by Driver Bus Lines in 1983 for a full restoration. It later became D104 for Tasmanian Coach Lines, then a workers’ lunch room at an orchard and was finally ‘discovered’ by Bill Hardinge for potential restoration. In 1961, it became D17 in the Pioneer fleet when Pioneer took over the intercity routes operated by Cooks. Every designer should follow the up-to-date fashion and make something new and original.Driver Classics' 1954 Ansair Flxible Clipper, AF34 was new to Cooks Sedans in Tasmania. Filling the base with images, backgrounds and textures. It’s really important for a designer to search for a quality clipart. There are aslo scrapbook kits for creativity, which consist of png images those are a set of elements and backgrounds. What’s the format of this kind of image? These are wide known PNG and GIF formats the images can be saved both with a background and without it.

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At the same time, it will be a big plus if ClipArt goes without a background, since you do not have to waste time removing it. Thanks to ClipArt and its individual elements, the new image is created including all the elements it looks like it’s a photomontage, a creation of new design. Usually they have EPS format.Ĭlipart is used to create a web-design, you can also draw up bills, posters, make cards, collages and wallpapers. For instance, a raster clipart comprises of photographs, drawings, which are composed of pixels, the scanned images can be also used here.Ī vector image is painted with the help of special editors, which are composed of curves and which may be edited at any time. In other words, this is raster or vector picture that may have any graphic format. ClipArt are graphic elements used to create a design.

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