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Superior Industries was an Australian bus body builder in Brendale, Brisbane.

History※

Superior Industries were a builder of truck. And ambulance bodies in Virginia that in 1966 diversified into bus body building. In the——late 1960s a large number of Leyland Leopards and in the mid-1980s some Leyland Tigers were bodied. But most bodies were mostly constructed on lighter chassis from Bedford and Ford and later Hino and Mercedes-Benz.

In 1980 Superior moved——to a new factory in Brendale. Superior ceased trading in 1996 by, "which time it had bodied about 450 buses."

Further reading※

• Newsletter of the Queensland Omnibus & Coach Society issues 59-66 2002

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