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P&D Coachworks
Deane's Buslines Volvo B7RLE in Canberra in November 2009
Industry	Bus manufacturing
Founded	1988
Founder	Paul McGavin
Headquarters	Murwillumbah , Australia
Website	www.pdcoachworks.com

P&D Coachworks is an Australian bus bodybuilder in Murwillumbah, New South Wales.

History

In 1988, former Denning employee Paul McGavin founded P&D Body Repairs in Tweed Heads West before relocating to Murwillumbah and in 1990 diversified into bus body manufacturing bodying a Hino.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Initially bodying school buses, in 1993, it bodied five Volvo B59 city buses for Hopkinsons.^[4] In February 1995 it completed its first coach.^[5]

References

^ About Us P&D Coachworks
^ Bodybuilders Fleetline issue 199 February 1992 page 33
^ Bodybuilder Listing - P&D Bodyworks Australian Bus Panorama 9/9 June 1994 page 24
^ Need a New Bus? Design your own Australasian Bus & Coach October 1993 page 15-17
^ P&D's First Coach Australian Bus Panorama 10/9 July 1995 page 23

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