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Flxible Transit Buses: 1953 Through 1995 : Photo Archive

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This is a great book for an American bus fan or Flxible bus fan. Using pictures and captions, Mckane details the history of Flxible from its infancy, when it was a motorcycle sidecar maker, to the time they close, in the early 1990s from bankruptcy. Flxible buses are slowly fading away from everyday use, but you can still find many of their last design, the Flxible 870/Metro plying the streets in many cities, including New Jersey and Chicago. This book has some great pictures of rare bus photos, like the Chicago CTA bus w/ the Twin bus body and "New Look" front that was later developed into the "New Look" series of Flxible transit buses of the 1960s and 1970s, the only serious competitor to the more prevalent GMC "New Look" fishbowl bus. There's also many pictures of their last model, the Flxible 870/Metro. Bus liveries of big and small cities are represented. This is currently the definitive picture book on Flxible transit buses. I doubt if anyone will ever write another book about this defunct bus company. Thank you Mr. McKane. You have been immortalized!

This book is a great photographic history of a subject not previously published. Once the mainstay of many city transit agencies, the Flxible New Look has all but disappeared, although the Flxible ADB can still be found in many places. It's a sheer pleasure to flip through this book and review all of the differing versions that were produced for these buses. If I could add anything, it would be some color photos, as a number of the pictures allude to colorful liveries, especially those dating from the mid to late '70's and early '80's.

Details in pictorial form the History and Evolution of the Flxibble Twin Coaches Transit buses of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
A very varied selection of high quality photographs with consise histories of the vehicles in each photograph.
Very essential reading for anybody interested in the Evolution of City Transit buses.