Elphinstone Engineering is an Australian company which manufactures specialised trailers for the transport industry and equipment for weighing trucks, including on-board scales that weigh the load. It focuses particularly on support for forestry. It has facilities at

Triabunna Triabunna is a rural residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Glamorgan–Spring Bay in the South-east LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about north-east of the city of Hobart. The has a population of 905 for the state ...

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Sunshine West Sunshine West is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Brimbank local government area. Sunshine West recorded a population of 18,552 at the . Sunshine West is a ...

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. The company was founded by Graeme Elphinstone in 1976. Graeme Elphinstone's brother Dale owns a similarly named company based in

Burnie Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s. , Burnie had an urban popu ...

. Elphinstone produces skeleton trailers and

B-double A road train, land train or long combination vehicle (LCV) is a trucking vehicle used to move road freight more efficiently than semi-trailer trucks. It consists of two or more trailers or semi-trailers hauled by a prime mover. History Early ...

s for the timber industry that fold up for easier transport when empty, and that can weigh the load. On 14 December 2020 it was announced that Elphinstone Engineering is now part of the new

Bustech BusTech Group is an Australian bus-building manufacturer with production facilities in Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Edinburgh Adelaide, South Australia and Burnie, Tasmania. BusTech Group produces fully built up integral route buses, school buse ...

Group.‘BUSTECH GROUP’ ANNOUNCED; AUST BUS CORP REBRANDED
Australasian Bus & Coach 14 December 2020

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