On Friday 7 August 2020, the Queensland Omnibus and Coach Society commemorated 135 years of public transport with a display on King George Square outside City Hall in conjunction with the Brisbane Tramway Museum and Transport for Brisbane.
As part of this display, QOCS unveiled its latest refurbishment project being the one-of-a-kind Brisbane City Council 1983 MAN SL200 Denning prototype Bus 100.
In anticipation of this milestone, Bus 100 was re-painted by Coachworks between July and August 2020 into the same gold and white livery it wore during 1985 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of this occasion.
Start of public transport in Brisbane
Brisbane’s first public transport services were provided by the Metropolitan Tramway and Investment Company Limited on 10 August 1885 when two horse drawn tramcars carrying company directors, officials and guests, ran from Victoria Bridge to the Exhibition and then to the Breakfast Creek line.
