| 词条 | McCafferty's Coaches |
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|name = McCafferty Coaches |logo = |logo_size = |image = Maguire Coaches Landseer.jpg |image_size = |image_caption = Over 60 Denning Landseers were purchased in the 1980s and 1990s |company_slogan = |parent = Jack McCafferty |founded = April 1940 |ceased = October 2004 |headquarters = Toowoomba |service_area = Adelaide Brisbane Cairns Darwin Melbourne Mount Isa Perth Sydney Toowoomba various regional destinations |service_type = Coach services |alliance = |routes = |depots = |hubs = |fleet = |annual_ridership= |ceo = |website = www.mccaffertys.com.au}} McCafferty's Coaches was an Australian interstate coach operator. HistoryMcCafferty's Coaches was formed in April 1940 when Jack McCafferty began a service from Picnic Point to Rangeville in Toowoomba.[1] In 1955 McCafferty's began operating a service from Toowoomba to the Gold Coast.[2] Over the next few decades McCafferty's expanded to operate long distance services throughout Queensland. In December 1980 McCafferty's entered the interstate coach market with a Brisbane to Sydney service[3] extending to Melbourne in December 1983.[4] In November 1992 McCafferty's commenced operating Melbourne to Adelaide and Adelaide to Darwin services[5] followed by Sydney - Canberra - Adelaide in late 1993 and Darwin - Broome - Perth in May 1995 making it a national operator.[6] The latter service was withdrawn in June 1996.[7][8] The Brisbane to Charleville service was acquired from Skennars in 1992.[9] In 1999 McCafferty's purchased MotorCoach Australia from the administrator of Clifford Corporation.[10] As well as building coaches for McCafferty's it also completed orders for external customers.[11] It closed in 2004 having completed over 60 coaches. In March 2000 McCafferty's entered into negotiations with Greyhound Pioneer Australia about a possible merge.[12] In September 2000 a takeover bid from McCafferty's for Greyhound was accepted.[13][14] As part of the deal the McCafferty family sold their shares to Tony McCafferty.[15] In October 2004 the McCafferty family sold its shares to ANZ Bank and George Chapman, and both operations were rebranded as Greyhound Australia.[16][17][18] FleetFrom the late 1960s, McCafferty's purchased exclusively new Denning coaches. In the first half of the 1990s, 40 second-hand Denning Landseers from a variety operators were purchased for its interstate expansion.[19] From 1994 it began purchasing MotorCoach Australia coaches.[20][21] In the 1970s McCafferty's coaches were painted in a white with blue and black, then into the early 1980s, a magenta and blue livery appeared. In 1987 a silver, grey, blue and red livery was introduced followed by a two-tone gold and blue livery, originally intended as a special livery to mark the company's 50th anniversary in 1990, but adopted as standard. The final livery was a sand-like "Platinum" with blue colour scheme to celebrate the company's 60th anniversary.[22] References1. ^"Jack McCafferty" Fleetline March 1999 page 49 2. ^"Vale - Jack McCafferty" Australian Bus Panorama 14/4 page 2 3. ^"Victorian Buses in the Eighties" Australian Bus Panorama 6/1 July 1990 page 10 4. ^"Victorian Buses in the Eighties" Australian Bus Panorama 6/2 September 1990 page 13 5. ^"McCafferty's" Australian Bus Panorama 8/4 December 1992 page 38 6. ^"McCafferty's" Australian Bus Panorama 10/9 July 1995 page 34 7. ^"McCafferty's" Australian Bus Panorama 11/9 June 1996 page 38 8. ^"Private Operators" Fleetline September 1996 page 171 9. ^"McCafferty's Coaches" Australian Bus Panorama 8/1 July 1992 page 36 10. ^"Manufacturing Update" Australian Bus Panorama 15/5 April 2000 page 17 11. ^MotorCoach Australia gallery 12. ^"Greyhound Pioneer Australia" Australian Bus Panorama 15/5 April 2000 page 38 13. ^"National & Manufacturing" Australian Bus Panorama 16/2 October 2000 page 19 14. ^McCafferty finally gets Greyhound {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20130627212758/http://www.busnews.com.au/news/articleid/63320.aspx |date=27 June 2013 }} Australian Bus & Coach 15. ^[https://archive.is/20130627221942/http://www.busnews.com.au/news/articleid/63315.aspx McCafferty to take Greyhound within days] Australasian Bus & Coach 16. ^[https://archive.is/20130627220846/http://www.busnews.com.au/news/articleid/64205.aspx McCafferty sues over $10 mil] Australian Bus & Coach 17. ^Greyhound Australia's History Greyhound Australia 18. ^"End of the Road for McCafferty's Coaches" The Chronicle (Toowoomba) 2 November 2004 19. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20020617021159/http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~kc3302/cafferty.htm McCafferty's] Bus Australia Fleet Lists 20. ^"McCafferty's Coaches" Australian Bus Panorama October 1994 page 34 21. ^Greyhound Australia Australian Bus Fleet Lists 22. ^McCafferty's Australia Showbus External links
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