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1961 Thomas school bus on an International Harvester chassis Late-1960s Thomas Saf-T-Liner body on GMC H6500 chassis (rare) in New York as a farm bus In 1962, Thomas Car Works officially expanded its production beyond High Point as Thomas Built Buses of Canada, Ltd. was established in Woodstock, Ontario . [ 2 ]
The Thomas Saf-T-Liner is the name of the transit-style (Type D) school bus product line produced by Thomas Built Buses.Introduced in 1978, the Saf-T-Liner marked the transition to in-house chassis production by Thomas.
The Thomas Minotour is a bus body manufactured by Thomas Built Buses since 1980. The smallest vehicle sold by the company, the Minotour is a bus body designed for cutaway van chassis. Primarily sold for school bus usage, the Minotour is also produced as a MFSAB (activity bus) or in specialized configurations specified by the customer.
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.
New diesel school buses cost about $185,000, while their electric counterparts can easily cost twice as much. ... However, the insiders said, the MCCSC administration so far has bought only Thomas ...
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 addition to Woodland Public Schools receiving the latest grants for electric buses, DOE secured almost $3.9 million to replace 13 diesel school buses across four other school districts.
The Thomas Vista is a model line of buses that was manufactured by Thomas Built Buses from 1989 to 1998. Produced nearly exclusively as a school bus, the model line was also sold in commercial-use configurations.