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A restored GM "New Look" bus of the former New York Bus Service (now the MTA). The GM New Look bus is a municipal transit bus that was introduced in 1959 by the Truck and Coach Division of General Motors to replace the company's previous coach, retroactively known as the GM "old-look" transit bus.
Edmonton Transit was the lead agency, but SF Muni (343), Miami Valley RTA (64), BC Hydro (50) and Boston MBTA (50) were the primary customers of E800 trolleybuses, [3] purchased before the AM General Metropolitan trolleybus was available. In 1979, 219 Metropolitan trolleybuses designated 10240-T were built for Seattle Metro and SEPTA. [1]
New Look bus may refer to: . Flxible New Look bus, a very popular transit bus produced by The Flxible Company from 1960 until 1978; GM New Look bus, also commonly known by the nickname "Fishbowl" (for its six-piece rounded windshield), a transit bus introduced in 1959 by Truck and Coach Division of General Motors and produced until 1986
1964 General Motors TDH-4519, BC Hydro #4612. One of the first GM New Look buses purchased by BC Hydro for Vancouver. 1976 Flyer Industries E800, BC Transit V1109, "trisel" (ex-trolleybus 2649. Converted to diesel for purpose of de-icing trolley wires); repainted back to "Metro Transit" yellow-and-orange-stripe livery and renumbered back to ...
The 49 vehicles remaining in use in 2008 were from an order of 100 manufactured in 1981–82 by Brown Boveri & Company (BBC), using bodies and chassis supplied to BBC by GM. [2] These 100 vehicles for Edmonton were the only trolley buses ever built with the GM "New Look" body, whereas more than 44,000 motor buses were built to that design. [2]
On the right is an articulated New Flyer trolleybus, one of 60 articulated ETBs built by New Flyer for Muni in 1993-94 ZiU-9/682 is the most numerous trolleybus model in the world (over 42,000 trolleybuses were produced since 1972) Bogdan/Ursus ΠΆ701.16 in Lublin Foton BJD-WG120FN bimodal trolleybus in Beijing
GM bought the RenCen in 1996 to be its world headquarters. Previously, GM was located in Detroit's New Center area in what was then called the General Motors Building, now known as Cadillac Place.
The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to the convictions of General Motors (GM) and related companies that were involved in the monopolizing of the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and subsidiaries, as well as to the allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.