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In 1979, the Brockway family sold Crown Coach Corporation to a local truck distributor; this began a sequence of ownership changes. [1] Due to slow sales, Crown ended production of the motorcoach version of the Supercoach in 1980, focusing entirely on school buses. [3] The same year, the company was renamed Crown Coach International. [1]
In addition, Crown Coach served as a second-stage manufacturer, producing fire apparatus bodies for a variety of customer-supplied chassis upon request. Shortly after the sale of Crown Coach in 1979, the Firecoach line was discontinued in favor of bus manufacturing. In 1991, Crown ended operations altogether.
A Crown Equipment dealership in Vandalia, Ohio. Crown Equipment Corporation is a privately held American manufacturer of powered industrial forklift trucks based in Ohio. The fifth-largest such manufacturer, Crown had $5.18 billion in worldwide sales revenue for fiscal year 2023. [1] The company was founded in 1945.
In 1932, Crown Motor Carriage Company built its first complete school bus, in a shift from building bus bodies on cowled truck chassis. [1] Externally modeled after Twin Coach body designs, [2] the school bus body used a front-engine layout, with the Waukesha gasoline engine positioned next to the driver. [1]
Along with Crown Supercoach, highest-capacity school bus ever produced. Gillig Coach school bus c.1940–1980 School bus Various (to 40 feet) Variant of Gillig Transit Coach; body modified to fit customer-supplied cowled truck chassis Produced on a limited basis after Gillig became distributor for other manufacturers of conventional-style buses.
The Crown Auction is split between a live sale at the auctioneer’s New Bond Street location on February 7 and an online sale that ends the following day. No matter your budget or space ...
Crown By Carpenter Classic to 1998 From 1996 to 1999, Carpenter used the Crown by Carpenter brand name on their buses. Les Enterprises Michel Corbeil: 1990–1998 Sold only in Canada. Superior Coach Company: Pioneer to 1982 Perley A. Thomas Car Works Thomas Built Buses, Inc. Saf-T-Liner Conventional 1972–1998 replaced by Freightliner-based ...
The first apparatus used as Engine 51 for Emergency! was a 1965 Crown Firecoach Triple. It has a pump producing 1,250 gallons per minute, a 935 cubic inch Hall-Scott gasoline engine producing 195 or 215 horsepower.