Rows and rows of sheds line the road parallel to Archerfield Airport in Brisbane’s south, mostly housing mechanics’ workshops or transport yards.
Down one driveway, however, is an institution in the Brisbane coach building game, Coach Design.
The company, run by Chryss Jamieson, has been supplying coaches Australia-wide and even overseas since the early 90s.
“Coach Design was pretty much registered in 1986, so we’re actually 30 years old now,” Jamieson says.
“We didn’t build our first new vehicle until 1992 because back in that era we had the airline pilots’ dispute, so tourism went down, a lot of companies went broke, and that fooded Australia with a lot of good second-hand vehicles. At that point, body building pretty much stopped.”
While the nostalgia for those older Aussie buses is…