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Superior Industries was an Australian bus bodybuilder in Brendale, Brisbane.


History

Superior Industries were a builder of truck and ambulance bodies in Virginia that in 1966 diversified into bus bodybuilding. In the late 1960s a large number of Leyland Leopards and in the mid-1980s some Leyland Tigers were bodied, but most bodies were mostly constructed on lighter chassis from Bedford and Ford and later
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and Mercedes-Benz."Superior Bodyworks" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' 7/8 May 1992 page 5 In 1980 Superior moved to a new factory in Brendale. Superior ceased trading in 1996 by which time it had bodied about 450 buses.


Further reading

*Newsletter of the Queensland Omnibus & Coach Society issues 59-66 2002


References

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