| Industry | Bus manufacturing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1964 |
| Headquarters | , Australia |
Motor Body Specialists was an Australian bus bodybuilder in Eagle Farm, Brisbane.
Brisbane is the capital of and the most populated city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of approximately 2.5 million, and the South East Queensland metropolitan region, centred on Brisbane, encompasses a population of more than 3.6 million.
Motor Body Specialists commenced operations in 1964 bodying Bedford and Leyland. [1] In January 1965, it signed a deal to distribute Commonwealth Engineering bodied buses in Queensland and northern New South Wales. [2]
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Commonwealth Engineering was an Australian engineering company that designed and built railway locomotives, rolling stock and trams.
By the mid-1980s the operation had been renamed Rogers and it was concentrating on bodying Isuzu and later Hino chassis. [3] By 1990 341 chassis has been bodied. [3]
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