REVIEWS

After every book is delivered I have received wonderful feedback. This feedback gives me the energy to keep going, knowing that the readers are getting such joy out of reading and remembering great days in the industry. I am excited that the books are now being read in New Zealand, Sweden, United Kingdom, Austria, Hong Kong and all over Australia.

An Aussie Busman's Holiday Series

"The New Zealand book has arrived today. Another excellent book with lots of fascinating buses and coaches. I am very happy with this book as with all of your books on my bookshelf. Thank you so much for this new book! Look forward to your next book with Nordic buses and coaches."

Karl K, Germany

"Just received the latest instalment what a ripper, some great pics, put me down for the next one please."

Allen M, Melbourne

GBNF 9

"I look forward to reading the book once it is sent. Thanks for all your extraordinary work in gathering all the photos, data and compiling the series of books."

Peter R.

“ Good evening (Fochabers time). Your book arrived yesterday - one word - superb”

Peter Findlay

“ A great effort and some fascinating photographs”

Stephen Haby

“ Hello Tony, good morning from Germany. Thanks a lot for the beautiful book which I collected today at the customs some 40 kilometers away. This book is a further highlight on my bookshelf and shows many interesting vehicles that I didn't expect to see with Australian operators. Well done! Thanks a lot for your ambition to publish this excellent book.

At the end of the last year I had nearly no literature about buses and coaches in Australia. Now I have six excellent books: five directly from you plus your book published by Amberley in the UK. I am very glad about having these magnificent books on my bookshelf.

Tony, thank you so much for these beautiful books and for your excellent support.”

Karl Kolemsky

“ Thanks for undertaking the work! It makes you realise the variety that you THOUGHT you grew up with was nothing, once you look at all the different bodies used interstate.”

Michael Smith

“ I have had a quick look through the book and it amazes me the variety and number of imported buses and coaches have and continue to arrive here – it makes it all so very interesting. The book looks like another great effort – well done and thank you!”

Tim Williams

GBNF 8

Hi Tony,

A quick note to let you know the Museum has received the copy of Gone But Not Forgotten. What a fantastic pictorial history, you should be proud of the research and work put into the publication.

The copy will be a great addition to our Research Library.

Harry Ree

Powerhouse Museum

Sydney

Hi Tony,

The book arrived today in excellent condition. It is really fantastic, a very comprehensive book that gives me a deep insight into the Australian bus and coach industry. I am very impressed with this book as well as with your ambition to publish this beautiful book. Thank you so much for making it possible to order this book without complications. Many many thanks for your great support!

Certainly this book will not remain the only one on my bookshelf. Volume 9 is looking also very interesting and maybe the one or the other of your previously published books could be of interest to me.

Tony, again many many thanks for everything.

Best regards

Karl

(Germany)

“ Tony the monies you have raised is an incredible achievement. Your books for which I have purchased a number of to date are all absolutely full of great memories from the bus industry. I love the old photos and the history behind the photos. Well done my friend and a Merry Christmas you you and the family.”

Keith McCartney, Head of fleet and maintenance (Transdev, VIC)

“ Tony Finneran, you are a true gentleman and the work you have done to create an historical chronicle of the bus industry is extremely outstanding. As one of the last standing family members amoung the many who were mentioned in your publications I wish to thank you on behalf of the bus industry, historical and new. Things change and industries evolve but the work you have done will ensure many good things are remembered.”

Luke Todd (EVdirect.com.au) former director of Carbridge.

“ Great work Tony...old soldiers just keep powering on” - Graeme Davis (former 2IC Sydney University Regt)

“ Well done Tony, you are a true legend” - Wayne Wilson, Business Development Manager

Hi Tony,

Just got the book and had a quick flick through over lunch. What a fantastic collection you have put together…and the work that must have gone into it. Congratulations!! And Thank you.

Loved all the old Clipper and Deanes pictures especially.

Thanks & Regards

Brenton Deane

Deanes Coaches

Tony,

My beautiful GBNF-8 arrived today.

Thank you for recording & publishing the history of our industry. I'll have many hours of enjoyment digesting ever picture & caption.

I'm looking forward to GBNF-9 ;-)

Regards, Ray K.

GBNF 7

Hey Gbnf ManTony!

I received my book today.

Thanks...got me out of all the things I wanted to do today....

Another triumph! - Russell W

Hi Tony,
FYI the book arrived today. Another excellent publication well done.
Trevor
TJ Bryans

Good on you Tony ,
Thanks for the terrific effort you put into producing these books .
They are an irreplaceable history of family struggle to provide a service for the community to the huge multinational companies of today .
Well done and thanks to you and your family
Cheers

Rod Bransby

Got mine another great book thank Tony
Nigel Charig

Thank you very much Gbnf Man a BIG thank you Gone but not Forgotten - Tony Finneran - Bus models for this another Great Book
Job well done
Bill Elms

Hi Tony,
your book arrived. The photo will make a handy built in bookmark!
Love the rear end shot of Mr Whippy. I love bus rears. Have to buy groceries so will have a flick through later. Just letting you know it arrived.
Wow it's heavy!!
James Laforest

Hi Tony
GBNF 7 arrived safely yesterday, thanks for another wonderful offering.
Graeme Lamb

Books have arrived and I grabbed the missing one from the ARHS. Bloody fantastic series, an absolute credit to yourself and those that have assisted. Looking forward to what you produce next.
Carl Millington

Hi Tony,
I couldn't put it down. I'm normally consumed with the internet but this is the first thing in ages that has kept me off it for hours at a time!!
I'm up to the AECs in Darwin. (!!)
I never knew there were so many types in Canberra in the 60s. This book amounts to a great resource on the government fleets though the ages and their backgrounds. I like how you add further information in subsequent captions of photos of the same bus types.
I knew I'd enjoy this. Thanks for making this fine and important addition to the series. These buses helped build up private fleets down the line too.
James Laforest

Hi Tony
Just a quick note to say that the books have arrived safely. Congratulations once more on such a great publication and another vital record of our Australia wide bus heritage. Thank you for your very kind words you penned on my own copy. I will always treasure your heartfelt sentiments. Take care Tony and all the best for both You and Amanda in the future. I hope we may meet again.
Kindest regards
Ray Mc

Hi Tony,
It is a wonderful book, what is especially great is that all these, sometimes obscure, photos have been recorded for posterity – thanks for the series, I have all editions except the advertising one.
Tim Williams

Hi Tony. Books arrived yesterday. Thank you very much. Great to see so many Tassie pics Fascinating reading. Thanks again.
Neil Robins

The book arrived today and is very good as usual.
I already look forward to GBNF 8.
David Gottfried, Austria

Tony - permit me a wee joke - hopefully it will not be taken as derogatory. Thus far, I have found GBNF7 to be 'heavy reading'. My arms ached after 20 minutes of holding the book up and turning the pages. I was reluctant to put it down, but just had to lest I suffer some physical injury to my arms. The term 'a weighty tome' seems apt, somehow.
Jokes aside, GBNF7 is massive - in more ways than just its physical weight.
It is massive in its coverage of Aussie buses that once plied this nation's streets and highways and were familiar to many.
It is massive due to the sheer amount of photographs - many and more showing buses that are no longer around or barely remembered.
It is massive above all for showing a big chunk of Australia's history and the buses that were a vital part of that past - and even our present.
Tony, as you know, I would have liked to have seen certain aspects 'done differently'. Such as more focus on past buses at risk of being forgotten, ahead of current buses that might eventually suffer that fate. Despite my disappointment regarding such aspects, I can only commend you for producing a book that is very worthy of inclusion in the collection of any historian with an interest in buses.
Very Best Regards
Colin Davison

Congrats on the book. It's epic.
Ian Page

Thank you Tony.

Let me say, thank you for the book, I received it this morning and just glancing through it, has brought so many memories from my time driving with Australian Pacific Tours during the seventies and also a short stint with Ansett Pioneer Express out of Adelaide during the Eighties.

Once again thank you so much.

Yours sincerely,

Alwyn R Charlesworth

Airdrie, Alberta.

Canada.

GBNF 6

I have been thumbing through your latest book #6 and I must say it is a credit to you the detail you have put into this book is outstanding the industry and general public have a lot to thank you for.

Steve Scott

I received the book yesterday and was grinning like a cat when I saw the Deanes pics.

The quality in published form is simply staggering and this covers bus types I recall and love.

It would be impossible to comprehensively cover how eclectic the scene had been over the decades but you have succeeded in giving plenty of samples to digest.

It was an honour to have it personally posted by the author himself and it will be a beacon amongst my collection. Love the photographs!!

Paul L.

Tony

Thank you for the two books I ordered, they are simply the best I have seen and loved every page of them a job VERY WELL DONE, I have enjoyed them so much. Keep up the good work.

Also are any of the other books still available as I would be greatly interested.

Barry Briggs

Well l enjoyed my read. Brought back many memories.

Pino Gattellaro

I've received my copy and it's excellent reading with some really great photos! 😀

Craig Tory

Hi Tony and Amanda

What a beautiful book that arrived today. Thank you for your beautiful book. Wow. I'm like a kid in a toy store. So many coaches in there. Some I've driven, several I've been a passenger in and even saw at least one bus my dad had, he's sitting in it in this photo at the time.

Its my pleasure to be able to contribute where I can. I'm glad I could help. Book 3 hasn't left the lounge room since I received it. Can't get through a day without a look through. Book 4 will be keeping it company too.

Thank you for your book. Blessings to you and your family. Its an amazing achievement to have given the Australian bus and coach world your books.

Chris Sellick

Great book Tony loved seeing all those old express coaches from the 70s 80s. Well done 👍

Adrian Cooper

Hi Tony

I received my copy today.

Thanks so much and congratulations yet again of an outstanding publication with so much history.

Your efforts are much appreciated.

David Simpson

Book arrived today, from what I have seen it's GREAT

Les Berry (NZ)

Well Tony they certainly brought back memories for me as I have driven many of them too. A great book. Congratulations very well put together.

Barry Cox

I just finished reading the book my son Aaron bought and I can only say great job Tony👍👍👍

David West

Hi Tony

It's Andrew, thanks for the book it's great 👍

Andrew Woods

I received the book yesterday mate, and I have not been able to put it down. By God it has bought back many memories for me, some of those companies I had forgotten, absolutely fantastic. You have done a premium job to the whole industry, congratulations! My best you and Amanda. Cheers mate.

Brian Korner

Thank you.

Your books are fantastic. I have just finished GBNF 3. The books are fantastic and it is recommended to read GBNF 3 and 4 together.

David Gottfried (Austria)

Just a short note to thank you for the delivery of the 3 books. The quality of the books is first rate and you should be commended. I will

have many good times just looking at the photos and trying to remember which buses I may have seen or travelled in over the over the years.

Thanks again,

Paul McGrath

“I am still going through GBNF 5. Great that there are so many photos of vehicles from Croydon Bus Service and Invicta as they were my local route bus service during school years and provided charter services to the primary and secondary schools I attended in Ringwood.

Believe it or not, the bus I used to catch when in Preps/bubs in the early 60s is the bus on page 134 (or its twin), then this was replaced by the top bus on p135 which was to our thinking then simply amazingly modern! Also in the 60s I remember catching to school the bus top page 145....when we were really lucky the driver let us sit in the front seats parallel to the drivers seat and forward of the entry door! No seat belts in those days.

Thanks for all your effort in compiling these books. The diversity of operators and equipment in days now gone is something that is great to be recorded, especially given how comparatively bland the scene is today. Most of the operators names esp in the Eastern Suburbs are very familiar to me.”

Steve

The previous books have been excellent and I very much look forward to this one. Many thanks indeed,

Ty Backhouse

Have all the others and love them.

Malcolm Inglis