Today on the easel of my isolation deck gallery I'm showing another from my collection of paintings created in the Sydney Bus Museum.
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| BUS3 'Bob restoring the 1926 'White' 2017 oil on canvas 51 x 76cm Available |
This was actually the first painting I started of the Sydney Bus Museum on my first visit in 2017, although it took me several visits to complete it.
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| BUS3 'Bob restoring the 1926 'White' 2017 oil on canvas 51 x 76cm Available |
It shows one of their most exciting restoration projects - the old 144 Manly
bus, the 1926 'White', the first Government bus in NSW.
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| BUS3 'Bob restoring the 1926 'White' 2017 oil on canvas 51 x 76cm Available |
At that time, my family lived above their shop "Coopers" in the Corso, and my mum remembers catching this bus when she was very young. So when I saw this bus, it felt like a long lost family member!
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| BUS3 'Bob restoring the 1926 'White' 2017 oil on canvas 51 x 76cm Available |
The recently rebuilt drivers seat that was refurbished with a 2016 Transport
Heritage NSW grant funding, has been trial fitted to the bus.
The
original seat had unfortunately become rotten, so needed to be remade by the Bendigo Tramway workshops who were able to
reuse the original base.
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| BUS3 'Bob restoring the 1926 'White' 2017 oil on canvas 51 x 76cm Available |
Robert Kendall is the master craftsman repairing the White's wooden skeleton with consummate skill.
He didn't realize it, but I was doing a sneaky portrait of him as he was so absorbed in his work!
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| BUS3 'Bob restoring the 1926 'White' 2017 oil on canvas 51 x 76cm Available See more of my bus paintings Sydney Bus Museum - painting Daimler doubledecker |