ContributorCommunity HistoryDescriptionBlack and white image of a Scarborough bus outside the Mount Hawthorn garage, which was selling Texto petrol for one shilling and fourpence a gallon, photograph taken around 1930. CollectionTransport collectionDate createdc1930Historical details
This was known as a 'Federal Butterbox', which had its roof raised at 'Cattles Coach Building Works'. It worked well as a bus for a while until one day when gathering speed on the quarter mile hill on the Scarborough run, with Harry Cattle the coach builder's son driving, the roof came adrift.
Scarborough Bus Service vehicle. City of Stirling Art and History Collection, accessed 19/02/2026, https://collections.stirling.wa.gov.au/nodes/view/4023
