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Thomas Built Buses, Inc. (commonly known as Thomas) is an American bus manufacturer. Best known for its production of the first ever rear engine Type C school bus. Thomas produces other bus designs for a variety of usages. Currently, its production is concentrated on school buses and activity buses, along with their commercial derivatives.
Lion produces Type C (conventional) buses on Spartan Motors chassis. Along with diesel-fuel buses (Lion 360), the company produces the first full-size electric school bus (eLion). Lion bus bodies are produced with composite materials in place of steel to minimize corrosion. Type D school buses are in production since 2019. Thomas Built Buses, Inc.
In 1972, as a third generation of the Thomas family assumed leadership, Perley A. Thomas Car Works was reorganized as Thomas Built Buses, Inc. [2] [4] Adopting a brand name in use by Thomas since the 1950s, the change was explained as bringing the company closer to its core product line of buses, [2] [4] 42 years after producing its final ...
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.
Saf-T-Liner C2 Interior view, looking back. The Thomas Saf-T-Liner C2 (often shortened to Thomas C2) is a bus manufactured by Thomas Built Buses since 2004. The first cowled-chassis bus designed by Thomas following its acquisition by Freightliner, the C2 debuted the first all-new body design for the company in over three decades.
Apr. 15—GREENSBORO — President Joe Biden touted Thomas Built Buses and its High Point operations as an example of manufacturing innovation in his speech at North Carolina A&T State University ...
Owned by Daimler AG from 1981 to 2021, Freightliner is now a part of Daimler Truck subsidiary Daimler Truck North America (along with Western Star, Detroit Diesel, and Thomas Built Buses). [ 3 ] Freightliner produces a range of vans, medium-duty trucks, and heavy-duty trucks; [ 1 ] under its Freightliner Custom Chassis subsidiary, the company ...
Luce is among the early school bus industry pioneers including Perley A. Thomas, who founded Thomas Built Buses, D.H. "Dave" Ward, founder of Ward Body Works (now IC Bus), and the educator Dr. Frank W. Cyr, who, for his persistent work since 1939 to develop school bus safety standards across the country, is widely considered the father of the ...