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  2. Blue Bird Vision - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Bird EC-72 was designed as a school bus with a lower production cost than the Vision, primarily through the simplification of its overall design and lack of customization. [ 4 ] 28 prototypes were produced, but the EC-72 has yet to enter full-scale production.

  3. Akron Plan - Wikipedia

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    The polygonal projection at left holds six Sunday-school rooms. [1] The Akron Plan was a scheme for the design of churches and other religious buildings that housed Sunday schools. It was characterized by a set of wedge-shaped classrooms that radiated from the direction of a central superintendent's platform.

  4. History of Gmail - Wikipedia

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    Gmail [1] The public history of Gmail dates back to 2004. Gmail , a free , advertising-supported webmail service with support for Email clients , is a product from Google . Over its history, the Gmail interface has become integrated with many other products

  5. George Shillibeer - Wikipedia

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    Christened in St Marys Church, Marylebone on 22 October 1797, Shillibeer worked for the coach company Hatchetts in Long Acre, the coach-building district of the capital. In the 1820s he was offered work in Paris, France, where he was commissioned to build some unusually large horse-drawn coaches of "novel design". The aim was to design a coach ...

  6. Thomas Built Buses - Wikipedia

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    Since producing its first school bus in 1936, virtually all Thomas school bus bodies had been produced in the "conventional" style: a body mated to a cowled truck chassis. [citation needed] While the design was the most popular configuration, the transit-style configuration allowed for a higher passenger capacity (up to 90 passengers). In the ...

  7. Thomas Vista - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Wayne Busette - Wikipedia

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    The school bus body was designed to fit on a Chevrolet, Ford, or GMC chassis. [2] One of the first examples produced with a cutaway van chassis, the Busette mated a purpose-built school bus body with a dual rear-wheel van chassis. In North America, this configuration is now preferred by manufacturers for many other types of minibuses in ...

  9. Crown Supercoach - Wikipedia

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    Starting life as a sightseeing bus for a motorcoach customer, the new-generation Supercoach (renamed as a single word) entered production in 1948, with Crown producing its first school bus example in late 1949. [1] [3] In a move back to the mid-engine layout, the design of the 1950 Crown Supercoach broke many precedents in school bus construction.