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The Omnibus Society's objective is to foster an intelligent interest in road passenger transport and its history.

Society News

The Society has completed the move out of Gracefield through the year and has relocated to The Steam Museum at Tokomaru. We have four 40 ft shipping containers positioned on concrete pads along with 14 buses on site. A fifth container is in a temporary location pending the paddock drying out. At present we do not have regularly scheduled work days, but please get in touch to get involved. We need to unload less critical items from some of the containers to allow unloading of parts from Greenline 17 (see below) so it can be returned to useable condition.

Greenline Motors of Morrinsville has recently been sold to Ritchies and Allen Fretwell donated Isuzu JCR500 to the Society for preservation. It is a 1984 vehicle new to Bennetts Passanger Service of Tuatapere, before going to Greenline in 1994. Now at 40 years old in 2024 it has made the trip south to join the Omnibus Society fleet. It has very large underfloor lockers, which were very useful when moving parts out from Gracefield.

Long time publisher of the Omnibus Bulletin and president of the Omnibus Society Peter Rendall passed away on the 30th of September 2024 in Wellington Hospital following increasing health issues. While the move out of Gracefield was complete his vision for Tokomaru still needs your support to come to fruition. His funeral included a Bus Stop sign on his coffin and Wheels on the Bus playing as he was carried out. Malcolm Little provided a bus (former Wellington trolley bus 361, now a battery bus) to take attendees to Peter's burial at Makara Cemetery. The family requested donations to the Omnibus Society to be used toward a roof between containers at Tokomaru. Dontations can be made to the Society at 03-0502-0105275-01 or via PayPal

We are still looking for some seats to suit a SARO bodied Daimler Freeline currently being restored. If you know of any, please send details to email omnibussocietynz@gmail.com.