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A Philly Phlash New Flyer MiDi bus in Philadelphia. In May 2012, Canadian bus manufacturer New Flyer introduced a license-built version of the third generation Enviro200 as the New Flyer MiDi, [10] modified for the North American market. [11] New Flyer estimated the size of the medium-sized bus market at approximately 1,000 units per year. [10 ...
1941 Western Flyer. New Flyer was founded by John Coval in 1930 as the Western Auto and Truck Body Works Ltd in Manitoba. The company began producing buses in 1937, selling their first full buses to Grey Goose Bus Lines in 1937, [1] before releasing their Western Flyer bus model in 1941, prompting the company to change its name to Western Flyer Coach in 1948.
Western Flyer was an American private label brand of bicycles, tricycles, scooters, play wagons, and pedal cars and tractors, and roller skates, sold by the former Western Auto stores. The trademark brand was first used in June 1931, and the brand of bicycles was sold until 1998. Western Auto had other companies manufacture the bicycles.
In January 2021, New Flyer introduced the Xcelsior AV, New Flyer's first ever autonomous bus. [26] New Flyer claims the AV meets the SAE J3016 Level 4 of autonomy. The AV is based on the XE40 chassis, and uses Robotic Research's AutoDrive suite of sensors and AutoDrive ByWire mechanical actuators. [ 27 ]
NFI Group was created on June 16, 2005, as the holding company of New Flyer Industries so it could be publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. [3]In October 2008, NFI Group. was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, which was announced in The Globe and Mail newspaper, and the company was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine.
New Flyer of America, headquartered in St. Cloud, announced its largest fuel cell bus order in the company's history Monday to make 108 hydrogen buses for San Mateo County Transit in California.
In 1971, the Manitoba Development Group, a government-sponsored organization, bought Western Flyer and renamed it to Flyer Industries, Ltd. Flyer Industries adopted the exterior design of the Metropolitan and began selling it on the Canadian market as the D800. 561 D800s were sold between 1974 and 1979: 86 35-foot models and 475 40-foot models. [1]
New Flyer XD40 Xcelsior: 2014-2015 40 ft (12 m) 7090–7483 (394 buses) 392 MTA Bus & NYCT Nova Bus LFS TL40102A 4th Generation: 2015-2016 8090–8503 (414 buses) 412 NYCT New Flyer XD60 Xcelsior Articulated 60 ft (18 m) 5364–5438 (75 buses) 74 MTA Bus New Flyer XN40 Xcelsior: 2016-2017 40 ft (12 m) 673–810 (138 buses) 135 CNG NYCT New ...