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The Kefford Corporation was a transport company which operated in Victoria from the early 1850s until 2009. ==History== The Kefford Corporation was started in the early 1850s when Richard Papworth Kefford began operating horse-drawn lorries in Collingwood. The business later began operating trucks but sold that side of its business in 1976.〔(Kefford Corporation ) Tiltaway〕 In January 1976 Kefford Corporation became a public transport operator, with the purchase of Point Cook - Werribee Passenger Service, Werribee. In the 1980s and 1990s a number of other bus operations were purchased. * December 1981: Davis Motor Service, Ballarat〔"Victorian Buses in the Eighties" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' 6/1 July 1990 page 13〕 *July 1987: Bono Bus Lines, Maidstone, with bus Route 406, operation re-branded as Westrans and operating from a new depot in Footscray. The Bono family continues to operate Firefly Express in Maidstone 〔"Victorian Buses in the Eighties" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' 6/8 May 1991 page 14〕 *January 1988: Sinclair's Bus Service with routes 605 Melbourne City Centre - Elsternwick and 630 Elwood - Monash University〔"Victorian Buses in the Eighties" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' 7/1 August 1991 page 3〕 *January 1988: Sitch Group and subsidiaries:〔 * *Altona Bus Lines, Altona * *Footscray - Yarraville Bus Service, Yarraville * *North Sunshine Bus Service, Sunshine * *St Albans Bus Service, Sunshine * *Sitch Bus Service, Sunshine *May 1991: St Kilda Bus Service with route 606 Port Melbourne - St Kilda〔"Kefford Group Fleets" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' 7/1 August 1991 page 35〕 *March 1999: Benders Buslines, Geelong〔(Major bus buys for Kefford & Hill ) ''Australasian Bus & Coach''〕〔"Kefford Expands" ''Australian Bus Panorama'' 15/4 February 2000 page 22〕 In the 1990s, the Point Cook - Werribee, Bono and Sitch services were rebranded as Westrans, and the former Sinclair services as Eastrans. In December 2008, Kefford Corporation was the fourth-largest bus operator in Victoria when its sale to ComfortDelGro Cabcharge was anounced. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kefford Corporation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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