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Cec Tapp (1910-1995) - Bus driver, Cessnock area. Recorded 13 November 1983. Part 1/1.
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SummaryCEC TAPP
RECORDED ON 13TH November 1983
0:36
Cec began driving with Stan Barksby
0:47
Started driving for Stan Barksby in 1925
0:55
Alf Wolfgram said he started driving when he was 14 with Rovers.
1:09
Recalls driving a charabanc to Paxton and back.
1:27
Recalls working in grocery shop in South Cessnock
1:35
Claude O'Hara
2:05
Joe Maher who ended up in the Kitchener Hotel, Jack Maher
2:32
Rita Maher married Les Mayes
2:49
Jack Mayes
3:30
Bill Jenkins also ran to Paxton pit years later.
3:36
J.D. (Jack) Armstrong was Bob's father.
3:58
Roy Cooke and Jim Dowd were drivers for Jenkins
4:34
Stan Barksby's garage was on the Maitland Road nearly opposite Cessnock Police Station. He went into Rovers as a shareholder.
5:07
Cec worked at Paxton pit before driving Stan's buses. He drove the specials to the race tracks and to Maitland in the 30's before he went to Newcastle, in opposition to Rovers. The Lock Out was just over.
7:40
Drove 2.5 trips to Newcastle daily - starting at Newcastle one morning, sleeping over in Newcastle in a room.
8:12
Ross Fernance was his conductor. Georgie Bambach also worked the buses. Stan did most of his own mechanical work. He had a Fagel bus on the Newcastle run. Amos Fogg had a Reo.
9:12
Bus companies servicing Maitland -Foggs, Rovers and Barksby. Barksby ran in opposition with Rovers to Newcastle.
9:35
Reason S. Barksby sold business. Cec was working at Paxton in 1935 when he got married.
11:23
Drove buses for Alec McMurray
11:33
McMurray serviced Millfield, Elrington.
12:15
Peter Phillips
12:21
Vern Peart - He was driving for McMurray.
12:56
Make of McMurray's bus fleet
14:20
Bill Jenkins worked at Paxton
14:32
Drove buses for Bill Jenkins - he mostly had Chev buses.
14:46
Bill Peden, Kalingo bus service
15:00
Reg Batterham bought Peden out.
15:58
Stan Barksby sold out to Eric Roberts at the end of the Lock Out.
16:33
Stan Barksby's first bus was Model-T which Cec drove to Paxton. Then he got a Reo and then a couple of charabancs.
17:07
Ted Delaney - Jack's brother.
19:21
Len Austin, Edna Barksby had two sisters.
20:21
Fred Thompson, Don Thompson, Fred Gilmore drove for Alec McMurray
21:38 Charlie Luscombe, early bus operator
21:53 Bert Townsend
21:55 Keith Essie had a Reo bus. He sold out to George Ryder.
22:45 Cec was born Cessnock in 1910
22:51 "Wandy" Patrick's horse bus was based in Aberdare and then he finished up in South Cessnock. It had 4 horses on a Cobb & Co 2 storey coach with stairs up the back.
24:02
Jack Patrick was his son.
24:24
Alf Mitchell
24:50
Joe Doyle was running a bus service when Cec was a kid.
25:57
Bill Murphy Cec thought Charlie Luscombe ran the first bus service in Cessnock. he had a Reo. The run catered for picnics and possibly a milk run to Wollombi.
27:26
Betty Richardson, Joe Richardson
28:31
Glynn's cordial factory
28:36
Healey's cordial factory
28:37
Knipe's cordial factory – DeCorsi family also possibly ran a cordial factory.
30:22
Family first settled in Heddon Greta - originating in Wales.
30:52
Jack Tapp (brother)
31:31
John Delaney
32:01
Ted Delaney - Jack's uncle
32:32
Bob White was the first meter reader
33:19
Albert Little (uncle)
33:23
Jack Moran
35:11
Les Brown - bus operator who started his service from Mrs Mills' house.
36:07
Location of Ditton & Hill's garage
36:39
Ernie Ditton - son of Les Alf Ditton - school teacher, son of Les Les Hill
37:50
Location of Les Hill's residence
38:07
Location of Hill's skating rink
38:20
May Tapp (cousin)
38:36
Location of early Cessnock skating rink Ron Field, Jim Hill
39:04
Les Hill, Gladstone Hill, Mrs Weakley.
41:16
Wally Govoronsky
41:31
Nick Govoronsky
41:53
Rutherford & Watson's bus service had a car run to Wollombi and a mail run to Wollombi
42:14
Wal Rutherford
42:20
Roy Watson
43:09
George Phillips - Peter's cousin. 2CK dances.
Tape duration: 45:19
Please email archives@newcastle.edu.au if you are a subject of the interview, or know a subject of the interview, and have cultural or other reservations about the interview and summary being made available on this website and would like to discuss this with us.
Tapp, Cecil, 1910-1995PersonJack DelaneyDepicts or Relates ToPeter Phillips - Owner of Kearsley Bus Company. Part 1/1. Recorded 13 October 1983.Nick GovoronskyLes Hill (1893-1974) -- Cessnock. Recorded 6th November 1983. Part 1/1.Ern DittonCollectionVoices of the HunterPlaceCessnock, NSWLocation[1] Cessnock, NSWIdentifier271B
RECORDED ON 13TH November 1983
0:36
Cec began driving with Stan Barksby
0:47
Started driving for Stan Barksby in 1925
0:55
Alf Wolfgram said he started driving when he was 14 with Rovers.
1:09
Recalls driving a charabanc to Paxton and back.
1:27
Recalls working in grocery shop in South Cessnock
1:35
Claude O'Hara
2:05
Joe Maher who ended up in the Kitchener Hotel, Jack Maher
2:32
Rita Maher married Les Mayes
2:49
Jack Mayes
3:30
Bill Jenkins also ran to Paxton pit years later.
3:36
J.D. (Jack) Armstrong was Bob's father.
3:58
Roy Cooke and Jim Dowd were drivers for Jenkins
4:34
Stan Barksby's garage was on the Maitland Road nearly opposite Cessnock Police Station. He went into Rovers as a shareholder.
5:07
Cec worked at Paxton pit before driving Stan's buses. He drove the specials to the race tracks and to Maitland in the 30's before he went to Newcastle, in opposition to Rovers. The Lock Out was just over.
7:40
Drove 2.5 trips to Newcastle daily - starting at Newcastle one morning, sleeping over in Newcastle in a room.
8:12
Ross Fernance was his conductor. Georgie Bambach also worked the buses. Stan did most of his own mechanical work. He had a Fagel bus on the Newcastle run. Amos Fogg had a Reo.
9:12
Bus companies servicing Maitland -Foggs, Rovers and Barksby. Barksby ran in opposition with Rovers to Newcastle.
9:35
Reason S. Barksby sold business. Cec was working at Paxton in 1935 when he got married.
11:23
Drove buses for Alec McMurray
11:33
McMurray serviced Millfield, Elrington.
12:15
Peter Phillips
12:21
Vern Peart - He was driving for McMurray.
12:56
Make of McMurray's bus fleet
14:20
Bill Jenkins worked at Paxton
14:32
Drove buses for Bill Jenkins - he mostly had Chev buses.
14:46
Bill Peden, Kalingo bus service
15:00
Reg Batterham bought Peden out.
15:58
Stan Barksby sold out to Eric Roberts at the end of the Lock Out.
16:33
Stan Barksby's first bus was Model-T which Cec drove to Paxton. Then he got a Reo and then a couple of charabancs.
17:07
Ted Delaney - Jack's brother.
19:21
Len Austin, Edna Barksby had two sisters.
20:21
Fred Thompson, Don Thompson, Fred Gilmore drove for Alec McMurray
21:38 Charlie Luscombe, early bus operator
21:53 Bert Townsend
21:55 Keith Essie had a Reo bus. He sold out to George Ryder.
22:45 Cec was born Cessnock in 1910
22:51 "Wandy" Patrick's horse bus was based in Aberdare and then he finished up in South Cessnock. It had 4 horses on a Cobb & Co 2 storey coach with stairs up the back.
24:02
Jack Patrick was his son.
24:24
Alf Mitchell
24:50
Joe Doyle was running a bus service when Cec was a kid.
25:57
Bill Murphy Cec thought Charlie Luscombe ran the first bus service in Cessnock. he had a Reo. The run catered for picnics and possibly a milk run to Wollombi.
27:26
Betty Richardson, Joe Richardson
28:31
Glynn's cordial factory
28:36
Healey's cordial factory
28:37
Knipe's cordial factory – DeCorsi family also possibly ran a cordial factory.
30:22
Family first settled in Heddon Greta - originating in Wales.
30:52
Jack Tapp (brother)
31:31
John Delaney
32:01
Ted Delaney - Jack's uncle
32:32
Bob White was the first meter reader
33:19
Albert Little (uncle)
33:23
Jack Moran
35:11
Les Brown - bus operator who started his service from Mrs Mills' house.
36:07
Location of Ditton & Hill's garage
36:39
Ernie Ditton - son of Les Alf Ditton - school teacher, son of Les Les Hill
37:50
Location of Les Hill's residence
38:07
Location of Hill's skating rink
38:20
May Tapp (cousin)
38:36
Location of early Cessnock skating rink Ron Field, Jim Hill
39:04
Les Hill, Gladstone Hill, Mrs Weakley.
41:16
Wally Govoronsky
41:31
Nick Govoronsky
41:53
Rutherford & Watson's bus service had a car run to Wollombi and a mail run to Wollombi
42:14
Wal Rutherford
42:20
Roy Watson
43:09
George Phillips - Peter's cousin. 2CK dances.
Tape duration: 45:19
Please email archives@newcastle.edu.au if you are a subject of the interview, or know a subject of the interview, and have cultural or other reservations about the interview and summary being made available on this website and would like to discuss this with us.
Tapp, Cecil, 1910-1995PersonJack DelaneyDepicts or Relates ToPeter Phillips - Owner of Kearsley Bus Company. Part 1/1. Recorded 13 October 1983.Nick GovoronskyLes Hill (1893-1974) -- Cessnock. Recorded 6th November 1983. Part 1/1.Ern DittonCollectionVoices of the HunterPlaceCessnock, NSWLocation[1] Cessnock, NSWIdentifier271Bloading google map....
Delaney, Jack, 1919-2010, Cec Tapp (1910-1995) - Bus driver, Cessnock area. Recorded 13 November 1983. Part 1/1., [271B]. Living Histories, accessed 03/10/2023, https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/55932