1409 operating for the Education Department in 2013, setting down near the Adelaide Central Markets. Notice how the lettering appears replaced, no longer hand painted signwriting with a white shadow.
📷 Brad Duncan
1409 in it’s current guise, decorated with fleet numbering, renewed pinstriping, touched up paintwork and badges, and a lot that is but a testament to the owner’s keen eye for detail
📷 Hayden J Day
1409 is a 1990 Hino AK176K with locally built PMC Adelaide bodywork, it was in service at Cummins Area School for most of it's 25 year service life, before retirement and becoming a church bus for a few years in the Adelaide CBD for a short while.
It was purchased by a BPASA member in early 2024 for restoration, and joins sister bus 1432 as a former icon of rural South Australian roads.
1409 regularly attends BPASA events and is a popular attraction
1409 as it was upon securing for preservation in 2024
📷 Hayden J Day