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In the years during which Trailways was a subsidiary of Holiday Inn, television commercials for Holiday Inn frequently showed a Trailways bus stopping at a Holiday Inn hotel. Regular route bus ridership in the United States had been declining steadily since World War II despite minor gains during the 1973 and 1979 energy crises. By 1986, the ...
A 1962 Eagle Model 01 coach of Continental Trailways in 1968. In 1954, Greyhound introduced the 40-foot-long, two-level General Motors PD 4501 Scenicruiser. This sent its main rival, Continental Trailways, on a hunt for a unique design of its own. It first contacted Flxible of Loudonville, Ohio. Flxible agreed to produce Continental's dream ...
The Tennessee Coach Company (TCC) was a regional highway-coach carrier, founded in 1928 and based in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.It was in operation until 1976, when it became merged into the Continental Tennessee Lines, a subsidiary of the Transcontinental Bus System, called also the Continental Trailways.
Continental Trailways bus 6760 at the Museum of Science and Industry (the former Palace of Fine Arts building), in Chicago, in 1968. Coach 6760 was built by Eagle. Date: 28 April 1968: Source: 19680428 08 Continental Trailways bus: Author: David Wilson from Oak Park, Illinois, USA: Other versions
[The Bowen firm was already a member of the Trailways association and thus was called also the Bowen Trailways.] Thus began the Continental Bus System, which soon led to the formation of the Transcontinental Bus System, both based in Dallas, Texas, both using the brand name, trade name, or service name of the Continental Trailways, which ...
[3] [5] Beginning circa 1980, the depot has housed the Montrose County Historical Museum. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Part of the building has also been rented to the Continental Trailways bus system. [ 8 ]
In 1968, Wilson bought Continental Trailways and merged the bus company into Holiday Inn. [7] From then until 1979, when Holiday Inn sold Trailways to private investor Henry Lea Hillman Sr. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Holiday Inn television commercials were prone to show a Trailways bus pulling into the parking lot of a Holiday Inn hotel.
Production of this bus totaled 1,501 with Greyhound Lines buying a substantial quantity. Many also operated for Trailways and other operators. Trailways sorely needed the GM Diesels, as the Hall-Scott 190-powered IC41 Brills had notoriously heavy fuel consumption, often achieving only 1.5 to 2 miles per gallon on a route on which a PD-4103 ...