Superior (bus manufacturer)

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Superior
IndustryBus manufacturing
Founded1966
Defunct2007
Headquarters,
Australia

Superior Industries was an Australian bus body builder in Brendale, Brisbane.

History[edit]

Superior Industries were a builder of truck and ambulance bodies in Virginia that in 1966 diversified into bus body building. In the late 1960s a large number of Leyland Leopards and in the mid-1980s some Leyland Tigers were bodied, but most bodies were mostly constructed on lighter chassis from Bedford and Ford and later Hino and Mercedes-Benz.[1]

In 1980 Superior moved to a new factory in Brendale.[1] Superior ceased trading in 1996 by which time it had bodied about 450 buses.

Further reading[edit]

  • Newsletter of the Queensland Omnibus & Coach Society issues 59-66 2002

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Superior Bodyworks" Australian Bus Panorama 7/8 May 1992 page 5