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Many thanks to Paul Kennelly, President of the Bus & Coach Society of Victoria, for this week's picture. Members of the Society were treated on Friday to a tour of Volgren's Dandenong bus building facilty, survivng the hottest day in Melbourne for five years at around 43C. For Volgren's workforce, the Australia Day long weekend was extra long with construction workers having the day off enabling a quiet tour of the facility. Unsurprisingly in build was a large number of PTV orange and white buses including a large batch of hybrid Volvo B5RLEH models for CDC Melbourne. More surprising was a batch of CR228L bodied MAN buses in various stages of build for Skybus, a couple of Optimus bodied Merceedes for Mackay Transit in Queensland, and at least one TfNSW liveried bus for Busways. Those in orange were also destined for Moonee Valley Coaches and SITA. The comprehensive tour was much appreciated by society members taking us from the first stages of building the roof, through to the side framing, chassis mounting, spraying, panel fixing and fitting out. It was explained that stock models of the Endura school bus are assembled at their Malaysian plant, but all components supplied from Melbourne where final fit out also takes place. The party was picked up at Dandenong Station in a Volgren Endura bodied Volvo B8R, kindly supplied by Victorian Touring Coaches which is seen in the background with one of the first completed CDC hybrids and recently immaculately restored Grenda Volvo B58, 25, which carries the first Volgren body ever built, VG001. The B58 is in the care of the Ventura heritage collection of buses. For reasons of commercial confidentiality it was not possible to take photos inside the production facility.
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