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P&D Coachworks

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P&D Coachworks
IndustryBus manufacturing
Founded1988
FounderPaul McGavin
Headquarters,
Australia
Websitewww.pdcoachworks.com

P&D Coachworks is an Australian bus bodybuilder in Murwillumbah, New South Wales.

History

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In 1988, former Denning employee Paul McGavin founded P&D Body Repairs in Tweed Heads West before relocating to Murwillumbah and in 1990 diversified into bus body manufacturing bodying a Hino.[1][2][3]

Initially bodying school buses, in 1993, it bodied five Volvo B59 city buses for Hopkinsons.[4] In February 1995 it completed its first coach.[5]

References

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  1. ^ About Us P&D Coachworks
  2. ^ Bodybuilders Fleetline issue 199 February 1992 page 33
  3. ^ Bodybuilder Listing - P&D Bodyworks Australian Bus Panorama 9/9 June 1994 page 24
  4. ^ Need a New Bus? Design your own Australasian Bus & Coach October 1993 page 15-17
  5. ^ P&D's First Coach Australian Bus Panorama 10/9 July 1995 page 23
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