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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. Last edited by: Dave Trimble

SubjectCessnock -- New South Wales -- Transport -- Rover MotorsBus drivers -- New South Wales -- CessnockBus companies -- New South Wales -- CessnockCessnock (N.S.W.)Barksby bus companyTapp, Cecil, 1910-1995 Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

PersonJack Delaney Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Depicts or Relates ToPeter Phillips - Owner of Kearsley Bus Company. Part 1/1. Recorded 13 October 1983. Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Nick Govoronsky Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Les Hill (1893-1974) -- Cessnock. Recorded 6th November 1983. Part 1/1. Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Ern Ditton Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

CreatorTapp, Cecil, 1910-1995Delaney, Jack, 1919-2010CollectionVoices of the Hunter Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

PlaceCessnock, NSW Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Date Created13th November 1983Location^[1]Cessnock, NSW Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Identifier271B Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

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