Flxible Transit Buses: 1953 Through 1995 : Photo Archive [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by John McKane (Author) "Hugo Young, founder of the Flixble Sidecar Company, is standing in doorway, left figure..." (more)
Key Phrases: paint scheme, New York, New Looks, San Francisco (more...)

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Iconografix; illustrated edition edition (October 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583880534
• ISBN-13: 978-1583880531
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,689,890 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book on a fabled bus maker Flxible, May 3, 2008

By	B.X.L. (Los Angeles, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

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!

5.0 out of 5 stars Flxible Twin Coaches - Pictorial History, July 4, 2009

By	John E. Henderson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.