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Pages in category "General Motors buses" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... GM PD-4103; PD-4501 Scenicruiser; R. Rapid Transit Series; T.
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.
Greyhound began building their own version of GX-1 at the Greyhound Motors & Supply Company in Chicago. A year later, in August 1946, the double-decker bus was “just around the corner,” according to one article. [3] By mid-April of the 1946, Time magazine reported Caesar's hoping that road tests would begin in the summer of 1947. [4]
The GM "Buffalo" bus models were strongly influenced by the PD-4501 Scenicruiser, a model GM manufactured exclusively for Greyhound Lines between 1954 and 1956.. The Scenicruiser was a parlor bus intended for long-distance service with two levels: a lower level at the front containing the driving console and ten seats behind it, and an upper level containing seating for 33.
Both the TDH-4801 and TDM-4801 have an unusual vehicle length of 37 feet 9 inches (11.5 m) (rather than the normal 35 or 40 feet) and a seating capacity of only 48 (rather than 51 for a comparable 40-foot bus). Both models are 102 inches wide. The TDH-4801 was equipped with an automatic transmission and 547 were built between 1953 and 1958.
This problem was rectified in the successor PD-4104, which set the pattern for bus restrooms for all manufacturers for the next 50 years. A common piece of misinformation about the preceding PD-4102 model is that it had the same restyled front end as the later PD-4103 (and 1950 PD-3704) while retaining the old, transit style rear end of the PD ...
The GM "old-look" transit bus was a transit bus that was introduced in 1940 by Yellow Coach beginning with the production of the model TG-3201 bus. Yellow Coach was an early bus builder that was partially owned by General Motors (GM) before being purchased outright in 1943 and folded into the GM Truck Division to form the GM Truck & Coach Division.
List of buses: 0–9 Bus Image Type Manufacturer Year Notes Country 021: Single deck Jelcz: 1967 to 1979 Articulated Poland 043: Single deck Jelcz: 1959 to 1986 Poland 080: Single deck Jelcz: 1978 to 1984 Poland 1 CB: Single deck Berliet: 1911 France 2.0: Single deck Ebusco: 2014 Electric Netherlands 2.1: Single deck Ebusco: 2017 Electric ...