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1961 Thomas school bus on an International Harvester chassis Late-1960s Thomas Saf-T-Liner body on GMC H6500 chassis (rare) in New York as a farm bus. In 1962, Thomas Car Works officially expanded its production beyond High Point as Thomas Built Buses of Canada, Ltd. was established in Woodstock, Ontario. [2]
Following World War II, the company became one of the primary manufacturers of large school bus bodies in the United States, leading Perley A. Thomas Car Works to be renamed as Thomas Built Buses, Inc. in 1972. As Thomas Built Buses, the company is still based in High Point, operating as a subsidiary of Freightliner Trucks (of Daimler AG) since ...
Perley A. Thomas Car Works: 1972 High Point, North Carolina: Produced Type C and D buses; best known for streetcar production. Perley A. Thomas Car Works was re-organized into Thomas Built Buses in 1972. Union City Body Company [11] 1957 Union City, Indiana: Produced Type C buses. Union City is now a supplier of bodies for UPS.
The Thomas Minotour is a bus body manufactured by Thomas Built Buses since 1980. The smallest vehicle sold by the company, the Minotour is a bus body designed for cutaway van chassis . Primarily sold for school bus usage, the Minotour is also produced as a MFSAB (activity bus) or in specialized configurations specified by the customer.
Thomas Built Buses (body and chassis) Production: 1978-present: Assembly: High Point, North Carolina: Body and chassis; Class: Type D (transit-style) Layout: front-engine 4x2 rear-engine 4x2 rear-engine 6x2: Body style(s) school bus: Powertrain; Engine(s) Diesel: Cummins, Detroit, & Mercedes-Benz Compressed Natural Gas (CNG): Cummins ...
To improve forward sightlines for drivers, the chassis design of the Vista combines elements of conventional buses and transit-style school buses (as well as those from smaller buses). Following the 1998 acquisition of Thomas Built Buses by Freightliner, Thomas ended the production of the Vista in favor of the standard Saf-T-Liner Conventional.
Saf-T-Liner C2 Interior view, looking back. The Thomas Saf-T-Liner C2 (often shortened to Thomas C2) is a bus manufactured by Thomas Built Buses since 2004. The first cowled-chassis bus designed by Thomas following its acquisition by Freightliner, the C2 debuted the first all-new body design for the company in over three decades.
Thomas Built Buses Inc. [40] [41] in High Point, NC. Thunder Sky Energy Group [ 42 ] of Shenzhen , China (near Hong Kong) builds lithium-ion batteries and has four models of electric buses, the ten passenger EV-6700 with a range of 260 km (160 mi), the TS-6100EV and TS-6110EV city buses (top speed 80 km/h), and the 43 passenger Thunder-Sky-EV ...