Pressed Metal Corporation South Australia (PMCSA) was an Australian bus bodybuilder based in Royal Park,

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History

The business originally formed as Freighter-Lawton Industries being rebranded Freighter Industries in 1963.Memoirs of a bygone era
''Australasian Bus & Coach'' June 2008 It was originally based in Seaton. In 1975 it was sold to

Leyland Australia British Motor Corporation (Australia) was a motor manufacturing company formed in Australia in 1954 by the merger of the Austin Motor Company (Australia) and Nuffield (Australia). This followed the merger in 1952 of the Austin Motor Company and ...

and rebranded PMCSA moving to a new plant at Royal Park in 1976. In 1991 following the closure of

Pressed Metal Corporation Pressed Metal Corporation was an Australian automotive body building and assembly operation based in New South Wales. History Pressed Metal Corporation (PMC) was established in the late 1930s as a joint venture between Larke Hoskins, the Austi ...

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and the consolidation of operations in Adelaide, PMCSA was renamed PMC Australia. PMCSA was included in the sale of Leyland Australia's (by now renamed JRA Limited) bus businesses to

Clifford Corporation Clifford Corporation was a listed Australian company that purchased several bus manufacturing businesses in the mid-1990s before collapsing in November 1998. History In August 1995 Clifford Corporation purchased the Ansair Ansair was an Aust ...

in July 1996. Following the collapse of Clifford Corporation, the plant was sold in 1999 to a consortium of

Custom Coaches Custom Bus (previously Custom Coaches) is an Australian bus body builder in St Marys, New South Wales. History Cycle Components Manufacturing Company In 1935 Stanley Hillsdon founded Cycle Components Manufacturing Company (CCMC) in Guildford, ...

Jim Bosnjak Jim Bosnjak is a Croatian-Australian businessman who rose to prominence as the chairman of Westbus, Australia's largest privately owned bus operator. Since selling his Westbus stake in 2005, Bosnjak has maintained a high profile as chairman of the ...

and

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and rebranded Australian Bus Manufacturing. Custom Coaches assumed full ownership in 2000. In the 1980s PMCSA also built the Elwood bus chassis with most being sold to

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

operators.PMCSA Elwood Series
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References

{{Australian bus manufacturers Bus manufacturers of Australia Australian companies disestablished in 1999