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By this time, Kenworth was a major force in transit bus production, and nearly every major transit company in the Pacific Northwest were running Kenworth buses. Seattle Municipal Railway purchased several new model 601s to replace the previous model H30s, which were powered by a Hall-Scott 135 engine underfloor and had bodies built by the ...
The well-known World War II M25 tank transporter (also known as Dragon Wagon) truck, commonly referred to as Pacific was not a product of Pacific Truck and Trailer but of Pacific Car and Foundry. Again, the well-known Pacific School Coach was a Kenworth model CT school bus, made from 1949 onwards; Kenworth itself being a subsidiary of Paccar ...
Produced Type C buses on Ford chassis. Kenworth-Pacific: 1957 Renton, Washington: Produced Type D buses. Kenworth subsequently sold their bus tooling and equipment to Gillig. Northern Coach [9] Wisconsin Produced a small number of "Northern-Air" Type C buses in the late 1970s. Oneida Products Corporation [10] 1960
A surprise is exactly what the town of Washtucna, population 211, intended when they moved an abandoned 1955 Kenworth Pacific ... Washtucna's 'Magic School Bus' along Highway 261 has become a must ...
In 1957, Kenworth ended its presence in the bus segment, resulting in Gillig obtaining the product rights to the Pacific bus product lines. [4] [5] With the acquisition of the tooling from Kenworth, the roofline of the Transit Coach was introduced with redesigned front and rear roof caps. [7]
Pacific Car chose to subcontract many of the necessary parts, boosting smaller businesses in the state. [10] [16] [17] In 1945 Pacific Car purchased the Kenworth Motor Truck Corporation. Named after founding stockholders Harry Kent and Edgar Worthington, Kenworth had been producing trucks in Seattle since it was incorporated in 1923.
A 28-foot (8.5 m) medium-duty bus offered as lower-cost alternative to the 30-foot-long (9.1 m) Phantom. Gillig-Neoplan 1977–1979: High floor transit bus: 30, 35 ft (9.1, 10.7 m) A rear-engined transit bus built as a joint venture with German bus manufacturer Neoplan. Available with either diesel or propane engines. Gillig school buses ...
Greyhound acquired 80% of Western Canadian Greyhound Lines and a 10% ownership in Motor Coach Industries, Canada's largest bus builder. Factbox: British owner puts long-running Greyhound buses up ...