3-702: Clifford Corporation was a listed Australian company that purchased several bus manufacturing businesses in the mid-1990s before collapsing in November 1998. In August 1995 Clifford Corporation purchased the Ansair bus bodybuilding business from Ansett Transport Industries . That was followed by the Austral Pacific Group, which comprised the Austral Denning and PMC Australia businesses. The business collapsed in November 1998 with several of
6-712: A plant opened in Kingston, Tasmania , to make bodies for Scania buses used by Metro Tasmania and, in January 1993, a plant opened at East-West Airlines' former Tamworth Airport maintenance facility to make bodies for Scanias used by Sydney Buses . In August 1995, Ansett Transport Industries sold Ansair to the Clifford Corporation . In September 1995, the Kingston plant closed, followed in 1997 by Tullamarine. Ansair ceased trading in November 1998 when
9-417: The company's office holders prosecuted. Ansair Ansair was an Australian bus bodybuilder owned by Ansett Transport Industries and later the Clifford Corporation . Ansair was founded by Reg Ansett in 1945 at Tullamarine , to make bodies for his Ansett Pioneer coaches, as well as manufacture aircraft components for Ansett Airways . It also provided bus bodies for other operators. In 1987,
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