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1941 Western Flyer. New Flyer was founded by John Coval in 1930 as the Western Auto and Truck Body Works Ltd in Manitoba. The company began producing buses in 1937, selling their first full buses to Grey Goose Bus Lines in 1937, [1] before releasing their Western Flyer bus model in 1941, prompting the company to change its name to Western Flyer Coach in 1948.
The New Flyer Xcelsior is a line of transit buses available in 35-foot rigid, 40-foot rigid, and 60-foot articulated nominal lengths manufactured by New Flyer Industries since 2008.
For example, a New Flyer D40-88 is a 40-foot (nominal) rigid high-floor bus with conventional diesel power, built in 1988. The -## suffix was used between 1987 and 1990. . After this time, no suffix was added to the model number, while buses from the Low Floor series, which were introduced in 1991, did have LF for a suf
Since then, New Flyer has exclusively produced its Xcelsior heavy-duty transit bus product line at the former NABI Anniston plant, under the new name of New Flyer of America, Inc. [5] New Flyer invested $20 million to retool the plant for Xcelsior production in 2015; a second expansion of the plant to 400,000 square feet (37,000 m 2), costing ...
New Flyer Xcelsior XDE35 35 feet (11 m) 2014 3700–3759 (60) First buses in fleet with HybriDrive Series-E system that shuts off diesel engine while stopped to decrease emissions and fuel consumption. Buses originally ordered from Orion, order transferred to New Flyer after closure of Orion factory. [25] New Flyer Xcelsior XDE40 40 feet (12 m ...
In October 2021, NJ Transit's board approved $9.4 million to purchase eight zero-emission buses from New Flyer plus 5% for contingencies, according to that board item. Similarly, in January 2019 ...
New Flyer of America, headquartered in St. Cloud, announced its largest fuel cell bus order in the company's history Monday to make 108 hydrogen buses for San Mateo County Transit in California.
The New Flyer Invero (D40i) is a line of low-floor transit buses that was manufactured by New Flyer Industries between 1999 and 2007. Produced as a 40-foot (nominal) rigid bus, the Invero was typically sold with a conventional diesel combustion engine, although a few diesel-electric hybrids were built, integrated by Stewart & Stevenson.