Stage Number: MBSH.02.01.10
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: Dutton Park-South Woolloongabba-Buranda
Epoch: Late 19th Century
Street Address: 2 Bower Street, Dutton Park
Latitude & Longitude: -27.49336111,153.02183333
Time Link: 1890
Map Link: 1890
Image Time Point: 1890
An early omnibus proprietor was James Clarke, who lived on the corner of Bower Street and Gladstone Road, Dutton Park. In 1890 he established a horse-drawn bus service that ran from Eagle Street to Bower Street, where he also had his stables. Clarke had two buses, each drawn by two horses and carrying 16 passengers. He operated this service until the introduction of the electric tramway along Gladstone Road to Dutton Park in 1908.
Brisbane Courier, 13 September 1930.
Horse bus owned by James Clark awaiting departure, Brisbane, 1890s. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. Record number: 446980.
QSA. QSA Series ID 2043 City of Brisbane and Suburbs Maps – A1A Series. 18 chains to the inch. Map of City of Brisbane and suburbs issued with Pugh’s Almanac. 18 chains to the inch.. 634512
