Let the Otago Heritage Bus Society make bus & coach hire a breeze with their fleet of heritage vehicles.

The Heritage Fleet is suitable for:

• Birthdays
• Weddings
• Christmas Wine Tours
• Social Events
• School Transfers
• Large Public Events and Festivals 
• Fundraisers
• Private Charters & Excursions
• The list is endless … 

Dunedin Heritage Bus & Coach Hire could not be easier, to request a quote please CLICK HERE. All proceeds from operating these heritage vehicles go back in to our restoration projects and enable us to provide charitable transport services to community groups, so when you hire us you are helping us to preserve our history and serve our community.

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By Tracy Roxburgh, Tues 21 May 2013 – Queenstown Times / Otago Daily TImes

Thirty-two Dunedin residents rode in style to Queenstown on Sunday, on the first Mount Cook Denning Jumboliner, made in 1977.

The Otago Heritage Bus Society excursion was a rare opportunity for the day-trippers – primarily members of the Dunedin Camera Club – to travel in what was once considered one of the most luxurious vehicles on New Zealand roads.

Bus society deputy chairman Peter Dowden said the 42-seater bus, owned by society chairman Philip Riley, formerly of Queenstown and now living in Melbourne, was halfway through restoration.

It was formerly owned by Good Time Tours and before that McDermotts. Mr Riley bought it for about $20,000 and in the past year the society had helped refurbish parts of it, most recently the exterior which had been returned to its original colour scheme.

Permission had been obtained from Air New Zealand to reinstate the original logo – a Mount Cook lily – on the exterior of the bus.

When the bus was first commissioned as ”501 City of Wellington” it was used as an express coach service on a daily return trip between Auckland and Wellington.

Later it plied the tourist route from Christchurch to Mt Cook and Queenstown, Mr Dowden said.

”In this day and age it doesn’t look like much, but when these were first introduced, there was nothing anywhere near as good in New Zealand.

”It had things like airbag suspension, an automatic gearbox and an onboard toilet, which are common today, but it was a pioneer of that type of [engineering].”

Mr Dowden said one of the other defining features of the bus was its ”very, very powerful,” Detroit V6 engine.

”It isn’t one of those you get stuck behind on the highway.”

The timetable is now available for all Suburban Rumbler Public Holiday Bus Services, routes include

St. Clair – Octagon – Normanby, and

St. Kilda – Octagon – Brockville / Halfway Bush

The Suburban Rumbler will be operating on the above routes on Good Friday (29 March 2013) and Easter Sunday (31 March 2013).

Fares for this service are by Gold Coin for a single trip or $10 for an Unlimited Day Pass.

Proceeds from these services go towards the operations and restorations of the Otago Heritage Bus Society to further benefit the Dunedin Community.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A TIMETABLE

It includes excursions to destinations such as Awakino for a ski weekend, Kingston to ride behind the popular Kingston Flyer Steam Train. The brochure also includes services we offer such as the Suburban Rumbler public holiday bus service, Carey’s Bay Historic Hotel Private Transfers and information how to book the Dunedin Airport Transfers Service.

It is jam packed full of exciting excursions and events. As always we recommend you book your tickets early for excursions to avoid disappointment. Details for excursions and events are finalised 2/3 months prior to departure.

You can download a copy of this brochure now by clicking here.

If you would like to stock this brochure in your venue we have copies available, please email us by clicking here to organise a delivery.