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Crown Coach buses Vehicle Production Dates Chassis Notes Crown School Buses [1] [2] c. 1919–1932 Various (including Mack, Reo, Ford) Crown built the first dual-rear wheel school bus (1927) Crown built its first all-metal school bus body in 1930. Crown Metro/Metropolitan [1] 1935–c.1937 Ford Ford conventional-chassis bus Crown Super Coach [1]
Since producing its first school bus in 1936, virtually all Thomas school bus bodies had been produced in the "conventional" style: a body mated to a cowled truck chassis. [citation needed] While the design was the most popular configuration, the transit-style configuration allowed for a higher passenger capacity (up to 90 passengers). In the ...
In 1940, Crown Coach redesigned the Super Coach bus body and chassis, moving the engine to the rear. [2] Featuring a wider and taller interior, the Supercoach gained additional emergency exits (a rear exit window and right-side emergency door), [ 2 ] following the standardization of school bus dimensions and exits in 1939.
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.
The Blue Bird All American is a series of buses produced by American school bus manufacturer Blue Bird Corporation (originally Blue Bird Body Company) since 1948. Originally developed as a yellow school bus (its most common configuration), versions of the All American have been designed for a wide variety of applications, ranging from the Blue Bird Wanderlodge luxury motorhome to buses for law ...
A 1945 Aerocoach P45/37 at the Antique Automobile Club of America in Hershey, Pennsylvania.. Aerocoach (full name General American Aerocoach Corporation) was a bus and coach manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States and was popular in the 1940s.
Darryl Irick, MTA Bus Company President, drives #5241 out of the Michael J. Quill Depot on May 6, 2019. On April 30, 2019, the NYCTA retired the last of these RTS buses from regular passenger service with 1998 NovaBus RTS-06 # 5108 having the honor of doing the final curtain call on the B3 bus route in Brooklyn, New York.
To supplement the rear emergency door in an evacuation, manufacturers introduced additional emergency exits during the 1980s, including roof-mounted escape hatches and outward-opening exit windows. Side-mounted exit doors (originally introduced on rear-engine buses), became offered on front-engine and conventional-body buses as a supplemental exit.