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An Eastern Greyhound Lines coach depicted at a stop in Conneaut, Ohio, c. 1930 Cast iron model "Northland Transportation Co." passenger bus, c. 1930. In 1914, Eric Wickman, a 27-year-old Swedish immigrant, was laid off from his job as a drill operator at a mine in Alice, Minnesota.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
He was the eldest of five siblings and was commonly known as Martis Jerk ("Martis" is the farm name and "Jerk" is the dialectal form of the name Erik). He changed his name to Carl Eric Wickman in 1905, when he arrived in the United States as a Swedish emigrant. [2] His father Victor had earlier used the surname Wickman when he worked in the ...
Great Lakes Greyhound Lines. The Grey (restaurant) Greyhound Air. Greyhound Bus Depot (Columbia, South Carolina) Greyhound Bus Museum. Greyhound Bus Station (Cleveland, Ohio) Greyhound Bus Station (Portland, Oregon) Greyhound Bus Terminal (Evansville, Indiana) Greyhound Canada.