Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
GM Buffalo bus. The GMC PD-4501 Scenicruiser, manufactured by General Motors (GM) for Greyhound Lines, Inc., was a three-axle monocoque two-level coach that Greyhound used from July 1954 into the mid-1970s. 1001 were made between 1954 and 1956. The Scenicruiser became an icon of the American way of life due to its presence throughout the United ...
Remains of a crashed Greyhound bus after the 1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision. Below is a list of major incidents and collisions on Greyhound buses and buses of subsidiaries in the United States. August 4, 1952: in Greyhound's most deadly collision, two Greyhound buses collided head-on with each other along U.S. Route 81 near Waco, Texas ...
GM-PD-4102. Successor. GM PD-4104. GM PD-4501 Scenicruiser. 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 ...
Known as the “Greyhound Experimental #1” or GX-1, Orville Caesar's postwar bus was designed by him and by Raymond Loewy, a multi-year activity beginning in the mid- to late-1930s. The “blue-sky sketches” of Loewy gave form and function to the many ideas seen in Caesar's earlier patents [1] that fit with his convictions of what the ...
The Yellow Coach Manufacturing Company(informally Yellow Coach) was an early manufacturer of passenger busesin the United States. Between 1923 and 1943, Yellow Coach built transit buses, electric-powered trolley buses, and parlor coaches. Founded in Chicagoin 1923 by John D. Hertzas a subsidiary of his Yellow Cab Company, the company was ...
The Great Lakes Greyhound Lines (called also GLGL), a highway-coach carrier, was a Greyhound regional operating company, based in Detroit, Michigan, USA, from 1941 until 1957, when it merged with the Northland Greyhound Lines, a neighboring operating company, thereby forming the Central Division of The Greyhound Corporation (the parent Greyhound firm), called also the Central Greyhound Lines ...
Service type. Intercity coach service, Charter bus service. Operator. Cooperative. Website. www.trailways.com. The Trailways Transportation System is a public transport bus service in the United States. It operates a network of approximately 70 independent bus companies. The company is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia.
91000302. Added to NRHP. June 2, 1999. The Greyhound Bus Station at 1465 Chester Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, is a bus station designed by William Strudwick Arrasmith in the Streamline Moderne style. [1] Built by Greyhound Lines, it opened in 1948. [2] It is on the National Register of Historic Places.