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Van-Con, Inc. Type A Type B 1973 Middlesex, New Jersey: Van-Con, Inc. is New Jersey's only school bus manufacturer. Van-Con, Inc produces 16, 25, 30 passenger and wheelchair accessible school buses. All vehicles produced on Chevrolet cutaway van chassis. Type A&D-only manufacturers GreenPower Motor Company: Type A Type D 2017
Cutaway van chassis are used by second stage manufacturers for a wide range of completed motor vehicles. Especially popular in the United States, they are usually based upon incomplete vans made by manufacturers such as Chrysler , Ford , and General Motors which are generally equipped with heavier duty components than most of their complete ...
1988 Wayne/International Lifeguard Wayne is a name in school transportation that predates the familiar yellow school bus seen all over the United States and Canada. Beginning in the 19th century, craftsmen in Richmond, Indiana at Wayne Works and its successors built horse-drawn vehicles, including kid hacks, evolving into automobiles and virtually all types of bus bodies during the 20th century.
Alongside the standard van body, the line is offered as a cutaway van chassis, which is a chassis cab variant developed for commercial-grade applications, including ambulances, buses, motorhomes, and small trucks. In production for a single generation since 1996, [1] over three million examples of the Express and the Savana have been produced. [2]
In early 2017, Navistar's truck assembly plant in Springfield, Ohio, began production of cutaway van chassis variants of the GMT610 Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana. [73] Further details around the Chevy Silverado 4500HD/5500HD/6500HD were announced by General Motors early in 2018, [ 74 ] with Navistar also unveiling the International-branded ...
During the 1960s and early 1970s, small school buses in the United States and Canada were heavily derived from production vehicles. Along with full-size vans such as the Dodge A100, the Chevrolet ChevyVan/GMC Handi-Van, and the Ford Econoline, large "carryall" SUVs were also used (such as the Chevrolet Suburban/GMC Carryall and International Travelall).
The company was founded in 1960 as Honorbuilt Manufacturing, was acquired by Ohio-based Ward Manufacturing in 1965, was renamed El Dorado R.V. in 1978 and started building cutaway buses by 1980. The company combined with National Coach Corporation, a California-based builder of transit buses in 1991 to become El Dorado National–Kansas and El ...
In line with a chassis cab truck, the cutaway van is an incomplete vehicle upfitted by a second stage manufacturer. In the context of school bus manufacturing, cutaway van chassis allowed for school bus bodywork (and its reinforced inner structure) to be adapted to a van chassis, replacing passenger vans or full-size SUVs (such as the Chevrolet ...