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A retirement ceremony, with a ceremonial farewell celebrations with a last RTS partial trip on the M55 bus route with 1999 RTS-06 bus 5241 was held on Monday May 6, 2019 to officially announce that these RTS buses were officially retired from passenger service [17] with 1999 RTS-06 buses #'s 5241 & 5249 on display in front of MTA's headquarter ...
RTS production would move to the TMC plant in Roswell, New Mexico, while the Classic bus production would remain in the former GM bus plant in Saint-Eustache, Quebec. Motor Coach Industries sold its Classic and RTS bus license to Nova Bus in 1993. In 1990, TMC began development of an enclosed automobile-transport semitrailer.
Nova Bus: RTS-06 T80-206 Transit Cummins C8.3 ZF Ecomat 5HP590 2601–2775 (2625) 2011–2012 1997–2000 (leased 2006) MCI: 102-DL3 45 Suburban Detroit Diesel Series 60
(AEC brochure 1947) Three preserved RTs in 2009 London Country Bus Services RT in 1972 The last RT bus in regular service in Barking on 7 April 1979 The prototype (London Transport RT 1) was built in 1938 with an AEC 8.8-litre (540 cu in) engine (a stopgap measure until the new 9.6-litre (590 cu in) was available) and air-operated pre-selective ...
A restored GM "New Look" bus of the former New York Bus Service (now the MTA). The GM New Look bus is a municipal transit bus that was introduced in 1959 by the Truck and Coach Division of General Motors to replace the company's previous coach, retroactively known as the GM "old-look" transit bus.
In 1989, a methanol fuel station was installed at the facility for six General Motors-built RTS methanol buses. [9] [34] [35] It was later used in the early 1990s to fuel a New York City Transit Authority demonstration bus from the Casey Stengel Depot [36] and three new Triboro-operated RTS buses fitted with special Detroit Diesel Series 92 ...
Remainder of buses retired prematurely due to serious structural issues, and were replaced temporarily in 1987 with surplus Flxible buses from Rochester and GMC RTS-01 series buses from Dallas. 5001-5065 [13] 1978–1979 GMC T8H-603 "RTS-03" w/d The NFTA was the first recipient of this model; were serial numbers 001-065. [14] 5066-5078 [15 ...
The last Regent III built, operated by Ipswich Corporation. The Regent III was mainly built for operation outside London and overseas. It could be fitted with AEC's 9.6-litre diesel engine (except a minority with 7.7-litre ones), 'Wilson' preselective epicyclic gearbox (except for a minority with crash gearboxes; a synchromesh option also became available in the early 1950s) and air-pressure ...