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This movement represents less total mechanical motion, which means less friction, less wear, higher maximum speed, and higher reliability than in a transverse shuttle system. [1] Early vibrating shuttle designs inherited the boat-shaped shuttle used in transverse shuttle machines, where the bobbin is inserted from the open side of the "boat".
Sale of these small low-floor buses commenced to private and public operators within the U.S. An additional outgrowth of the Optare acquisition was the sale of a small number of full-size (11 meter) NABI Model 700SE's the following year in Hungary. These were derived from the Optare Excel, and were produced on Scania chassis.
Until 1963, the first-generation Flxible New Looks had side windows with sharper corners. This is an ex-Denver bus in Portland in 1984. The Flxible New Look bus is a transit bus introduced in 1959 by the Flxible Company, and produced from 1960 until 1978, when the New Look was replaced by the "870" Advanced Design Bus.
The Big Apple was whacked with a lawsuit this week over the alleged “political theatre” of its failed $700 million lawsuit against bus companies for hauling migrants from Texas to New York City.
The Blue Bird Corporation (originally known as the Blue Bird Body Company) is an American bus manufacturer headquartered in Fort Valley, Georgia.Best known for its production of school buses, the company has also manufactured a wide variety of other bus types, including transit buses, motorhomes, and specialty vehicles such as mobile libraries and mobile police command centers.
Transverse shuttle. Longitudinal shuttle 1846 by Elias Howe [1] Figure 5 from Howe's patent 4750, showing transverse shuttle 'K' in its race: Transverse shuttles carry the bobbin in a boat-shaped shuttle, and reciprocate the shuttle along a straight horizontal shaft. The design was popularized in Singer's 'New Family' machine. [2]
Gillig transit buses (Current) Model name Production Configuration Length Notes Gillig Low Floor. 1996–present: Low-floor transit bus: 29, 35, 40 ft (8.8, 10.7, 12.2 m) [25] Originally designed as airport shuttle bus (Gillig H2000LF); released as the Gillig Advantage transit bus in 1998.
Best known for production of yellow school buses, the company produces buses for multiple applications; all bodies designed by the company have been produced for cutaway van chassis. Collins was founded in 1967 by Don Collins Sr. as E-CON-O Conversion; [ 3 ] originally a part of Collins Industries, the company exists today as a wholly owned ...