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Muni Marmon-Herrington trolleybus in front of the Ferry Building on Market (1953) Since the start of service in 1935 (on the Market Street Railway system), the San Francisco trolleybus system fleet has included vehicles built by many different manufacturers, including the J. G. Brill Company , the St. Louis Car Company , Marmon-Herrington ...
Marmon-Herrington was founded in 1931 by Walter C. Marmon and Arthur W. Herrington as a successor to the Marmon Motor Car Company, a maker of high-quality, costly automobiles from 1902 to 1933. [3] By the early 1930s, the U.S. economy had taken a severe downturn, and with the onset of the Great Depression , the market for prestigious luxury ...
They were the system's first air-conditioned trolley buses. The last active Brill and Marmon-Herrington trolley buses were retired in 1981. [8] Because of service reductions in the 1980s and 1990s, the number of trolley buses needed for scheduled peak-period service on the five routes had declined to only 51 (plus spares) by at least the mid ...
Historically, Muni ran ETBs from Brill, the St. Louis Car Company, Twin Coach, Marmon-Herrington, Flyer (E800 and E60) and Electric Transit, Inc. (ETI) (Skoda/AAI 14TrSF and 15TrSF). [ 27 ] Battery-electric test buses
A Nairn Marmon-Herington bus, converted to military use during World War II The very long journeys made by the company required a variety of vehicles. The first used were Buick and Cadillac Type V-63 motor cars, and Buick in the United States issued an advertisement in the Saturday Evening Post in 1927 with the legend "Buick carries the Desert ...
Until the late 1940s, only three other U.S. companies built more trolley buses: the Brill companies (J.G. Brill and successors ACF-Brill and CCF-Brill), Pullman and St. Louis Car Company. [2] Another builder, Marmon-Herrington, only entered the field in 1946, but eventually surpassed Twin's total.
The St. Louis Blues are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Louis. The team is a member of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). Since their inception in 1967, the Blues have reached four Stanley Cup Finals, winning in 2019.
This meant additional training for drivers, who mostly disliked the new system. This installation proved to be less than successful, and the 979 buses remaining in 1961-62 were rebuilt with 8V-71 engines and four-speed manual Spicer transmissions by the Marmon-Herrington Company. A preserved Scenicruiser on display in the London Bus Museum ...