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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.
The GM TDH-4801 and TDM-4801 were a special series of GM "old-look" transit buses that were produced between 1953 and 1958 and which were designed to maintain a maximum rear axle weight load of no more than 16,500 pounds (7.5 t).
General Motors Diesel Division Saint-Eustache Bus Plant: Saint-Eustache, Quebec: Canada: GMC New Look bus Classic bus: 1979: 1987: Manufactures transit buses. Sold to Motor Coach Industries, along with the designs for the bus models this factory produced, in 1987. General Motors Diesel Division Saint Laurent Bus Plant: Saint Laurent, Quebec ...
Pages in category "General Motors buses" ... GM New Look bus; P. GM PD-4103; PD-4501 Scenicruiser; R. Rapid Transit Series; T. GM "old-look" transit bus;
Welcome Aboard the GM New Look Bus, Hudson, WI: Iconografix. ISBN 1-58388-167-0; Plachno, Larry (2002). Greyhound Buses Through the Years - Part I, Polo, Il: National Bus Trader Magazine, November, 2002; Stauss, Ed (1988). The Bus World Encyclopedia of Buses, Woodland Hills, CA: Stauss Publications. ISBN 0-9619830-0-0
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.
Old Look: Single deck Yellow Coach (1940-1944) General Motors Truck & Coach (1944-1959) 1940 to 1969 USA Olympian (Leyland-MCW) Single deck Leyland Motors Metro Cammell Weymann: 1954 to 1958 United Kingdom Olympian (Leyland) Double deck Leyland Motors: 1980 to 1993 United Kingdom Olympian (Volvo) Double deck Volvo Buses: 1992 to 2000 Sweden ...
The interest in newer transit buses was sparked in part by laws passed in the late 1960s and early 1970s granting federal subsidies for public transportation equipment, including buses. [4]: 3–8 General Motors (GM) began developing a replacement for its ubiquitous New Look bus in 1964, demonstrating a three-axle, turbine-powered [e] prototype ...