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Share certificate issued by the J. G. Brill Company, issued on April 11, 1921 A 1903 Brill-built streetcar on a heritage streetcar line in Sintra, Portugal in 2010. The J. G. Brill Company manufactured streetcars, [1] interurban coaches, motor buses, trolleybuses and railroad cars in the United States for nearly 90 years, hence the longest-lasting trolley and interurban manufacturer.
Michael J. Saylor (born February 4, 1965) is an American entrepreneur and business executive. He is the executive chairman and co-founder of MicroStrategy, a company that provides business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services. Saylor was MicroStrategy's chief executive officer from 1989 to 2022. In 2000, Saylor was charged by ...
The bus is promoting American tourism with Pan Am and Greyhound, featuring a cowboy lassoing two Pan Am flight attendants in front of the bus. The Scenicruiser caused GMC's top competitors, Flxible and Beck, to bring out similar offerings. Flxible introduced the semi-deck and a half Vista-Liner 100, a 35-foot coach (208 produced between 1955 ...
In 1955 a miniature automobile assembly line display named A Car Is Born was constructed for one of the Futurliners. [9] A display titled Our American Crossroads was also used in 1955. [ 10 ] This display was narrated by Parker Fennelly and featured a complicated animated diorama that transformed to show progress in road and infrastructure ...
Phillippe, Saylor and Johnson are all scheduled to appear before a Warrick County judge for their initial hearings Feb. 16. at 9 a.m., according to court records.
An important feature of the new Leyland buses was the engine; it was a six-cylinder overhead-camshaft petrol engine of 6.8 litres displacement, developing between 90-98 bhp at up to 2,200 rpm. Other drive-line features were a single-plate clutch driving into a four-speed sliding-mesh gearbox; these were mounted as a unit with the engine.
Setra [1] is a German bus brand of EvoBus GmbH, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG.. The name "Setra" comes from "selbsttragend" (self-supporting). This refers to the integral nature of the construction of the vehicles back in the 1950s when competitor vehicles still featured a separate chassis and body (often manufactured by separate companies).
After World War II a number of more modern light train concepts appeared. Few were successful, as many railroads cooperated with highway bus services to eliminate passenger trains from their branch lines. Some, like the American Car & Foundry Motorailer, blurred the line between railcar and railbus. Others, such as the Mack FCD, landed firmly ...