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The GM PD-4103 was a single-decker coach built by GMC, in the United States, in 1951 and 1952. It was a 37- or 41-passenger Parlor-series highway coach and was an improved version of the earlier PD-4102 "transition" model. A total of 1501 were built, [1] 900 in 1951 and 600 in 1952, plus one that was converted by GMC from a PD-4102. [2]
The GM "Buffalo" bus models were strongly influenced by the PD-4501 Scenicruiser, a model GM manufactured exclusively for Greyhound Lines between 1954 and 1956.. The Scenicruiser was a parlor bus intended for long-distance service with two levels: a lower level at the front containing the driving console and ten seats behind it, and an upper level containing seating for 33.
The Model PD-4501, as GMC called it, was the most distinctive American parlor bus design of the modern era. It was the result of seven years of effort by Greyhound and GM Truck and Coach Division. The first GX-1 prototype was based on a design by Raymond Loewy as U.S. patent 2,563,917.
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John D. Hertz and associates began acquiring smaller Chicago-area companies involved in bus-building in 1922, [1] and soon assembled a manufacturing site covering four square blocks. [2] Yellow Coach Manufacturing Co was formally established in 1923 as a subsidiary of Hertz's Yellow Cab Company , [ 3 ] and sold 207 buses in its first year.
Service from Middletown to West Chester and Cincinnati has been proposed numerous times in recent years. [4] The service would utilize commuter buses and provide express service to downtown Cincinnati. [5] Previously commuter buses connected Middletown, Monroe and Dayton, where riders could transfer to the Dayton RTA. [6]
The report, obtained by The Enquirer from Cincinnati police, shows that at 6:37 a.m. Tuesday, the driver of a 2009 Honda Civic was traveling eastbound on West Seventh Street before running a red ...
The GM "old-look" transit bus was a transit bus that was introduced in 1940 by Yellow Coach beginning with the production of the model TG-3201 bus. Yellow Coach was an early bus builder that was partially owned by General Motors (GM) before being purchased outright in 1943 and folded into the GM Truck Division to form the GM Truck & Coach Division.