Superior Industries was an Australian bus bodybuilder in Brendale,

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Superior Industries were a builder of truck and ambulance bodies in

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that in 1966 diversified into bus bodybuilding. In the late 1960s a large number of

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s and in the mid-1980s some

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s were bodied, but most bodies were mostly constructed on lighter chassis from

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and

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and later Hino and

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."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.

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