Identify this for me!
 

hi new to the forum
i came across this bus in a wreckers yard, just wondering if anyone could tell me what it could be??? this is the only picture i have but i may get more soon if i can get back to the yard!
cheers
Tom

Not a lot to go on!

Welcome to the Truck and Bus Forum - I hope you will contribute more as and when possible.

Hi, Tom, and welcome! :)

It might be a Bedford OM (http://wakefield-files.freehostia.com/Bedford-ob.htm) but not easy to identify from three-quarter rear.

Official reply from the T&B Detective Agency :- The impossable we do every day, miracles take a little longer.

Welcome to the Truck and Bus forum Tom, you'll find a friendly bunch on here, feel free to join in where and when ever.

It looks like a 1940's or earlier Bedford, but the sharp curve of the roof doesn't look right at the front of the bus.

The logo on the bodyside panel reads "THE CHALET KIANDRA EXPRESS" with a image of a skier ski'ing down a slope in the centre. Not able to find any info on the name using the google/bing search engines.

Is the remains of the bus in the Uk or in a foreign country?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kidgeezer/398691783/

http://www.kiandrahistory.net/index.html

http://www.kiandrahistory.net/Goldhistory.html

http://www.kiandrahistory.net/skiing.html

http://www.kiandrahistory.net/whokilled.html

Thanks for the links G-CPTN.
NSW ? didn't think Australia got snow

They do in the Snowy Mountains!

http://www.snowymountains.com.au/abo...raphy-climate/

thanks for the help guys!
i found it looks very smiliar to these Bedford OB buses http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/40_bedfordob.htm , but it's the two curved glass windows (next the a pillar) at the front that are different. i've found that some older american Chevorlet buses have the same (or very smilliar) rear end, but still no luck in identify it correctly. i'm very keen to find out excatly what it is! And yes the bus is currently in a wreckers yard in australia, about a 2hrs drive from where it use to transport people to and from. and yes we do get snow in australia it may seem odd but for such a hot country but most of our snowfields are artifical, haha, still fun.

cheers again for your help fella's
Tom

You need to identify the make of chassis (look at the engine for identification).

Then you need to discover what bodybuilders were active around the time that the chassis was imported.

It's possible that the vehicle was imported bodied, and you would need to identify the country of origin of the chassis.

A picture of the Chalet at Kiandra:- http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0TJHNY7qgL...a+lodge+59.jpg

From (and more at):- http://diane-adventurebeforedementia...hool-1959.html

The body-builder's plate is usually on, beside or at any rate close to, the entrance step. Best of luck! :)

Drove 2 hours to the wrecking yard this morning, and was refused entry :( but will go back on a weekend when he should let me look around. thanks guys will look for a chassis no. or any number that may help identify the bus.
cheers
Tom

hey all!
merry chirstmas, happy new year all that stuff out of the way.
i managed to finally get to the yard on december the 3rd! and had a good look at the bus, inside there what may have been the bonnet, with General Motors Trucks across it, i couldn't find chassis no or and form of id tag at all!
thats all the information i have for now, may post some pics of it when i have a chance.
Cheers
Tom