There is little doubt that, right from the early post-war period, Rex Law was the most active Australian bus or coach operator advocating for local design, manufacture and economical availability of the rear engine style of bus and coach that has since become the standard specification in this country. It’s also true that he received no industry or wider recognition for this at the time or since, not that the man sought any such accolades. His persistence led to the introduction of the factory produced rear-engine Albion VK43L/505 Viking chassis in Australia in 1967, which was no doubt Leyland’s response to the serious brow beating they received from him over the front engine VK41L’s. The first of these chassis went to Redline and joined the fleet as the ‘Superior’ bodied No 95 in December 1967. More VK43L’s were later to follow in Redline’s final tranche of six, planned as fleet numbers 112 through to 117, carrying very handsome Denning Mono style coachwork. The first four were delivered between 9th August and 7th October 1969. The last two would never see service in Redline colours and were eventually on-sold by Denning to other operators. …show more content…
This gave Denning the space to engage in design and development work associated with chassis modification, design and construction, which no doubt led to the eventual production of the famous ‘Denning