During 1943, General Motors purchased the minority interest in Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Co., and effective October 1, 1943, Yellow became a division of GM under the name GM Truck & Coach Division. It is the coaches of this latter company that are discussed in this book.The first GM buses were built in 1943 when the War Production Board (WPB) authorized production of 1,340 transit buses. The first highway GMs were built in 1944 when 700 parlor cars were allowed by the WPB.Between August 1923 and May 1987 approximately 128,000 buses were built by Yellow/GM plus approximately another 12,000 were built in Canada by GM Diesel, Ltd. The buses built in Canada were transit types. All the buses shown in this book were built in Pontiac, Michigan including those for delivery in Canada.
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A wonderful tribute to the last great Parlor Bus made by GMC!,
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This review is from: GM Intercity Coaches 1944-1980 Photo Archive (Paperback)
I am a avid American bus fan and have essentially all the major bus books published concerning American buses in the last 30 years or so. This is the only book dedicated to those funny looking intercity buses w/ the hump in the roof of the 1970s/80s affectionately called the "Buffalo Buses" by their bus drivers and fans. This book gives excellent photos of all the major companies and the minor companies that used the bus. By all accounts, it was a good bus. But, the fact that Greyhound started making their own buses (i.e. MCI, which bought by Greyhound) doomed GMC's Intercity Coach days and also this line of Buffalo buses. Nevertheless, it was well liked by drivers and mechanics alike. Brian Grams and Andrew Gold did all bus fans and industry people a great service by chronicling this bus in the Iconografix photo archives series. You will get many hours of enjoyment reading this book. I have a whole library of bus books and I periodically read through them, and I find surprises and new info no matter how many times I read them. So, I highly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the GM Buffalo buses. They certainly have more character than many of the bland, boxy coaches out in the market today in 2008.
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These bus books are ideal.126 pages,1 bus photo per page with captions.Little light on for text but interesting enough for most bus enthusiasts.
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The Right Ticket for GM Highway Coach history,
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This book is not only well illustrated, but well researched by a professional in the intercity bus industry. It is an excellent treatise on how the General Motors line of highway coaches evolved from the GM take over of Yellow Coach in the 1930s to the final parlor coach to leave the factory in Pontiac,Michigan, taking General Motors out of the highway bus business. These buses, in my opinion, were far superior to some of the junk plying the highways today, and I don't mean MCI,Prevost or SETRA, I mean the likes of DINA.
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The 719 and 743 were models built before the takeover of Yellow by GM and were the first true coaches with the engine at the rear, the entrance door in front of the steering axle and the luggage underneath the passengers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, General Motors, New Hampshire, British Columbia, Central Greyhound Lines, Over Body, San Francisco, Canadian Coachways, First Step, New Jersey, Second Step New!
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The 719 and 743 were models built before the takeover of Yellow by GM and were the first true coaches with the engine at the rear, the entrance door in front of the steering axle and the luggage underneath the passengers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, General Motors, New Hampshire, British Columbia, Central Greyhound Lines, Over Body, San Francisco, Canadian Coachways, First Step, New Jersey, Second Step New!
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