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The well-known World War II M25 tank transporter (also known as Dragon Wagon) truck, commonly referred to as Pacific was not a product of Pacific Truck and Trailer but of Pacific Car and Foundry. Again, the well-known Pacific School Coach was a Kenworth model CT school bus, made from 1949 onwards; Kenworth itself being a subsidiary of Paccar ...
Produced Type C buses on Ford chassis. Kenworth-Pacific: 1957 Renton, Washington: Produced Type D buses. Kenworth subsequently sold their bus tooling and equipment to Gillig. Northern Coach [9] Wisconsin Produced a small number of "Northern-Air" Type C buses in the late 1970s. Oneida Products Corporation [10] 1960
In 1957, Kenworth ended its presence in the bus segment, resulting in Gillig obtaining the product rights to the Pacific bus product lines. [4] [5] With the acquisition of the tooling from Kenworth, the roofline of the Transit Coach was introduced with redesigned front and rear roof caps. [7]
The conventional bus chassis, which had become poor sellers, were dropped altogether, and Kenworth focused its designs on more transit or "coach-type" buses with engines being located either underfloor or at the back of the bus. By this time, Kenworth was a major force in transit bus production, and nearly every major transit company in the ...
A 28-foot (8.5 m) medium-duty bus offered as lower-cost alternative to the 30-foot-long (9.1 m) Phantom. Gillig-Neoplan 1977–1979: High floor transit bus: 30, 35 ft (9.1, 10.7 m) A rear-engined transit bus built as a joint venture with German bus manufacturer Neoplan. Available with either diesel or propane engines. Gillig school buses ...
From the 1950s to the 1970s, school bus production on the West Coast evolved separately from the rest of the United States, with the Crown Supercoach and the similar Gillig Transit Coach holding a near-monopoly of the school bus segment in California and a large share of the rest of the West Coast. Outside of the region, many operators ...
While technically available outside of the West Coast, nearly all Crown school buses were sold in Washington state, Oregon and California. From 1948 to 1984, the Supercoach was constructed at the Crown Coach facilities in Los Angeles, California; from 1984 to the 1991 closure of the company, the Supercoach was constructed in Chino, California .
In addition to fully built buses, Blue Bird produced the CS as a "shell vehicle"; it was a bare body without windows or an interior intended for purchase to be converted into various types of specialty vehicles. In addition to transit-oriented buses, Blue Bird also produced the CS/APC and TC/2000 for use in law enforcement.