On 26/06/2017 1:19 PM, 'Kevin Taig'ktaig@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> I realise talking about buses is heresy, but what is your opinion of the fine Ford vehicle passing the half cab further down Flinders St.

> Is it an Austerity bus? – can you have a closer look.

Your reference is to the original pic in the ' handsome photographic publicity book' prepared for the Olympic Games proposal in April 1948.
See: https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/publications/research-papers/download/36-research-papers/13610-2016-3-olympics-hn#_edn14

That date, combined with the ads on the front of Flinders St and Princes Bridge stations for trains to the showgrounds means that the photo (attached) probably dates from September 1947.
http://tdu.to/FlindersSt_c1947.jpg

The bus is almost certainly one of the wartime 'Austerity' buses.
A Leyland (OPS1?) is next to it.

Mal Rowe - committing tram heresy, excused by being distracted by the bird in flight at top left of the pic.