Featured Bus
Featured Bus – Associated Equipment Company
[June/July 2020]
From 1926 until 1982 a total of 323 AEC buses were operated by the Canberra Bus Service / ACTION.
Featured Bus
Featured Bus – ZIB-100 (AEC Reliance Coach)
[January/February 2019]
ZIB 100 was an AEC Reliance 2MU3RAE which entered service in 1965 and was withdrawn from service in June 1976.
Featured Bus
Featured Bus – AEC Reliance (ComEng body)
[July 2013]
The Canberra Bus Fleet had 60 AEC Reliance buses with body by Commonwealth Engineering (“ComEng”).
Fleet
AEC Reliances and Leyland Leopards
Although it was not the first operator of Reliances in Australia, the Department bought 120 over twelve years — the largest fleet in the country. Canberra’s first Reliance arrived in April 1956 and was the forerunner of 52 similar buses, with bodies by Commonwealth Engineering, over the next five years.