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26/11/2012 5:56 am
PICS...Some unusual busses....
A mid '20's Versare. Note the similarity in design to the streetcars of the day. This was done to encourage customer confidence in these "new-fangled" contraptions, I suppose...,
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A Gar Wood from the mid '30's. Yeah, that's the same Gar Wood of mahogany speed boat fame. They also built truck bodies and hoists....
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Three from 1936 : A Studebaker-Fitzjohn....
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...a White concept bus....
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...and a spectacular Art Deco Canadian-built Hayes....
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A late '30's / early '40's streamlined Ford....
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A 1938 International D-300 with skirts an all four wheels....
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This gorgeous Kenworth deck-and-a-half coach served the American northwest from the late '30's to the late 40's. It used Hall-Scott power....
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This experiment in public transport was built during WW II. It used plywood for the body construction in order to preserve materiel for the war effort....
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This experimental early articulated was built by Kaiser in 1950....
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An Available C400L from the late 1940's....
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This 1947 Federal came along very late in the company's life....
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A Reo from 1948....
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The one and only 1950 ACF-Brill X-001 deck-and-a-half prototype in service....
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Scenicruiser evolution....
Raymond Leowy's original rendering for Greyhound....
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1947 GX-1 prototype, the "Highway Traveler"....
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1948 GX-2 clay styling study for a 35 foot two axle bus. This was the length limit for coaches at the time....
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1948 GX-2 prototype. It was built in the three axle, 40 foot configuration after Greyhound and GM successfully lobbied Congress for the allowable length increase....
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It differed from the production PD-4501 Scenicruiser in many ways, not the least of which were the wipers on the rear window!
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The GX-2 in service for Great Lakes Greyhound in 1955....
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The so-called "single deck Scenicruiser" was officially known as The Golden Chariot. It was a running prototype that saw revenue service for a number of years. The design was ditched for the PD-4501....
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Another prototype that never saw production....
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The full sized styling clay for the production Scenicruiser....
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And finally, Brownie Points to whoever can guess the make of this bus. Look closely : it's NOT a GM Scenicruiser!....
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26/11/2012 7:37 am
I am a sucker for old buses Gene. especially the art deco ones.
26/11/2012 9:55 am
Very nice, I like old buses to. Thanks.
26/11/2012 11:41 am
Love Old Buses. One of My Favorites (Pic)...
Topic starter
26/11/2012 1:19 pm
No guesses on that last one, guys? I didn't mean to TAX your memories, LOL! It's a Beck 1040A.......
(I kid you not!) C. D. Beck & Company, of Sidney, Ohio was was founded in 1932. Like another Ohio coach manufacturer, Flxible, they first produced bus bodies for other company's chassis', and began producing complete units in the late 1930's.
In 1953, Beck acquired the Ahrens-Fox Fire Engine Company and transferred its production from Cincinnati to Sidney. In 1956 Mack Truck bought Beck and closed it in 1958.
Total Beck bus and coach production was around 3150 units. And thanx for your kind comments.
Topic starter
26/11/2012 1:31 pm
PICS..Yeah Ed, that's a humdinger. Before the 1930 NiteCoach, Pickwick built this weird-o in 1927...
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..and in 1933 built this slightly more conventional looking NiteCoach....
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The money for these bizarre creations came from the very successful chain of Pickwick movie theaters....
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27/11/2012 5:05 am
Wow! I just love old buses! The Santa Fe wooden bus is quite interesting.