Jakab Industries was an Australian coachbuilder in

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History

Jakab Industries built its first bus body in July 1973, a Ford R226. It mainly made bodies for buses for the defence forces, but also built some for commercial operators, before withdrawing from the market in late 1995. It also built bodies for ambulances and postal vans. In the 1990s it also overhauled

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and

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buses for the State Transit Authority. Following the collapse of Clifford Corporation in 1998,

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arranged for Jakab to take over the

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plant in Tamworth and complete the work of providing Orana-style bodies for 60 State Transit Authority Volvo B10BLE buses. The subsidiary company set up to do the work was named Phoenix Bus. Jakab Industries was placed in administration in 2002.

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{{Australian bus manufacturers, state=collapsed Bus manufacturers of Australia Australian companies established in 1973 Australian companies disestablished in 2002