GM Intercity Coaches 1944-1980 Photo Archive
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (771 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1583880992 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A wonderful tribute to the last great Parlor Bus made by GMC! I am a avid American bus fan and have essentially all the major bus books published concerning American buses in the last 30 years or so. This is the only book dedicated to those funny looking intercity buses w/ the hump in the roof of the 1970s/80s affectionately called the "Buffalo Buses" by their bus drivers and fans. This book gives excellent photos of all the major companies and the minor companies that used the bus. By all accounts, it was a good bus. Bu. The Right Ticket for GM Highway Coach history This book is not only well illustrated, but well researched by a professional in the intercity bus industry. It is an excellent treatise on how the General Motors line of highway coaches evolved from the GM take over of Yellow Coach in the 1930s to the final parlor coach to leave the factory in Pontiac,Michigan, taking General Motors out of the highway bus business. These buses, in my opinion, were far superior to some of the junk plying the highways today, an. "AAA+++" according to Darrell W. Conder. AAA+++ A truly great trip down memory lane; I highly recommend this book to anyone who cares about transit history!
The buses built in Canada were transit types. All the buses shown in this book were built in Pontiac, Michigan including those for delivery in Canada.. During 1943, General Motors purchased the minority interest in Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Co., and effective October 1, 1943, Yellow became a division of GM under the name GM Truck & Coach Division. The first highway GMs were built in 1944 when 700 parlor cars were allowed by the WPB.Between August 1923 and May 1987 approximately 128,000 buses were built by Yellow/GM plus approximately another 12,000 were built in Canada by GM Diesel, Ltd. It is the coaches of this latter company that are discussed in this book.The first GM buses were built in 1943 when the War Production Board (WPB) authorized production of 1,340 transit buses