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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]
The GM "old-look" transit bus was a transit bus that was introduced in 1940 by Yellow Coach beginning with the production of the model TG-3201 bus. Yellow Coach was an early bus builder that was partially owned by General Motors (GM) before being purchased outright in 1943 and folded into the GM Truck Division to form the GM Truck & Coach Division.
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 ] In 2007, a low-floor model of trolley bus was leased from Coast Mountain Bus Company , Vancouver's bus operating company, for a one-year period, for testing of possible ...
Until 1963, the first-generation Flxible New Looks had side windows with sharper corners. This is an ex-Denver bus in Portland in 1984. The Flxible New Look bus is a transit bus introduced in 1959 by the Flxible Company, and produced from 1960 until 1978, when the New Look was replaced by the "870" Advanced Design Bus. Over its 17-year ...
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 ...
Founded in Chicago in 1923 by John D. Hertz as a subsidiary of his Yellow Cab Company, the company was renamed "Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company" in 1925 when General Motors (GM) purchased a majority stake. After GM completely acquired the company in 1943, it was merged with GM's truck division to form the GM Truck & Coach Division.
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