Industry Bus manufacturing Owner Karl Jacoby Headquarters Tamworth Ceased operations 2002 | Defunct 2002 Divisions Phoenix Bus Founded 1973 | |
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Jakab Industries was an Australian bodybuilder in Tamworth, New South Wales. It also bodied ambulances and postal vans.
History
Jakab Industries bodied its first bus in July 1973, a Ford R226. It mainly bodied buses for the defence forces, but also built some for commercial operators before withdrawing from the market in late 1995. It also built bodies for ambulances and postal vans. In the 1990s it also overhauled Mercedes-Benz and Scania buses for the State Transit Authority.
Following the collapse of Clifford Corporation in 1998, Volvo arranged for Jakab to take over the Ansair, Tamworth plant and complete the bodying of 60 Volvo B10BLEs for the State Transit Authority with the Orana style of body. The subsidiary was named Phoenix Bus.
Jakab Industries was placed in administration in 2002.