A quick query on behalf of Shalendra Ramadhar. Does anyone know anything about an Indian bus company called Southbound Transport Co.? Please contact me if you do.
I have had a very interesting submission from my informant Graham Read on his uncle, Eddie Londal. Eddie joined the post office in Durban as a telegraph messenger in 1917 and later became a telegraphist. The page does also touch on Eddie’s career outside of Durban but it is very interesting.
SHALENDRA
HI I’M SHALENDRA RAMADHAR NEED MORE INFO ON SOUTHBOUND TRANSPORT
Frank Beeton
Hi Shalendra, here is a posting that I put up some years ago:
“I have just seen the request in FAD for information on Southbound Transport .
I can tell you that I had some contact with them around 1974/75. There were twelve brothers named Ramanand who lived with their families in one huge house at Isipingo near the railway station and ran one bus on a route, I think, in the Clairwood/Jacobs area. The bus was an underfloor-engined Leyland Worldmaster with bodywork built by Bobby’s Coach Works of Clairwood.
I was working for Lawson’s Autodiesels in Umgeni Road at the time, and tried, unsuccessfully, to sell them a Volvo bus!
By the way, anybody with an interest in Durban’s Indian Bus operators should try to get hold of the fascinating softcover book: “Indian Buses – The History, The Memories, The Personalities”, that has been written by Zainul Aberdeen, and published by Osborne Porter.”