Before the school run, the trip to work or the last ride home, there was this: a factory floor, an exposed chassis and workers leaning into the machinery.1
ArchivesACT identifies the scene as Canberra’s Mercedes-Benz 0305 city buses on the assembly line at the company’s Mulgrave manufacturing plant in Melbourne. The familiar front of a bus is already there, while its frame stretches away behind it. Other vehicles wait further along the line.1
The photograph is associated with Public Transit Branch file 81/788, concerning the purchase of Mercedes-Benz buses. That is a file reference, not a verified photograph date. The catalogue does not identify the photographer or establish the year of this scene.1
Do you remember riding in these buses, driving them or working on them? A route number, a depot memory or a family photograph could help connect this factory scene with its later life in Canberra.1