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"An Old Greyhound," a song he wrote about the bus, appears on his 1976 album Fearless. Scenicruiser 472, a 1955 model, gained regional fame as the tour bus for the Mission Mountain Wood Band from the mid-1970s to 1987. It was said to have traveled over two million miles and as of 2014, was still roadworthy. [6]
Production of this bus totaled 1,501 with Greyhound Lines buying a substantial quantity. Many also operated for Trailways and other operators. Trailways sorely needed the GM Diesels, as the Hall-Scott 190-powered IC41 Brills had notoriously heavy fuel consumption, often achieving only 1.5 to 2 miles per gallon on a route on which a PD-4103 ...
An Eastern Greyhound Lines coach depicted at a stop in Conneaut, Ohio, c. 1930 Cast iron model "Northland Transportation Co." passenger bus, c. 1930. In 1914, Eric Wickman, a 27-year-old Swedish immigrant, was laid off from his job as a drill operator at a mine in Alice, Minnesota.
A year later, in August 1946, the double-decker bus was “just around the corner,” according to one article. [3] By mid-April of the 1946, Time magazine reported Caesar's hoping that road tests would begin in the summer of 1947. [4] Greyhound found ways to reduce overall weight and the design changed to a single rear axle.
MOL N.V. bought the remains of Bus & Car after it went bankrupt in 1978 and continued selling buses and parts up to at least 1987 under the 'MOL Eaglebus' name. In the US, the early buses made in Brownsville had some notable quality issues compared to their Belgian sisters, and this got worked out by 1977, but it was a bitter pill for the ...
I was left lying at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery unconscious," recalled Lewis. In 1965, Lewis was again leading a protest for Civil Rights, marching with some 600 people from ...
The GX-2 (Greyhound Experimental #2 – The Scenicruiser) was a prototype bus built for Greyhound that was eventually developed into the Scenicruiser.It began in mid-1948 as a 35-foot design, but, in part to accommodate more passengers, Greyhouse President Orville Caesar directed his engineering department to add five feet in length to the upper deck of a PD-3751 obtained from GM. [1]
The bus operator traces its roots back to 1914 in Hibbing, Minnesota when Swedish immigrant Carl Eric Wickman began transporting miners for 15 cents a ride. The Academy Award winning movie "It ...