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Brooklyn Nostalgia, 1963
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frankie



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
"OLD HOUND FOUND"?


Looks like (if I am correct) an old GREYHOUND Yellow......

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?47033


Definitely a Yellow 743!

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Frankie:

Thanks for confirming my original hunch!

One would guess, that, by this late date, the YELLOW had been retired from GREYHOUND service, but, was still wearing its original colors.

I know a number of the ex-HOUND 743's were sold to small outfits, charter companies, and church groups, in later years.

Sure would have made for a jim-dandy museum bus today!

"NYO"
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 5:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
Frankie:

Sure would have made for a jim-dandy museum bus today!

"NYO"


Greyhound does have one restored in their historic fleet of buses. See the accompanying photo.

Frankie

Photo from flicker for educational purposes only


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Frankie:

MAN, OH, MAN!!! Shocked Shocked

Now THAT's a BUS!! Very Happy Very Happy

I'm now recalling one I saw sitting next to a ramshackle gas station somewhere way down south, on a family bus trip to Florida, back in 1978.

The gas station was still in use, but was VERY run down, and there were old junkers of every description all over the place.

This old 743 had been repainted red and white, but the paint had clearly seen better days.

It was kind of scruffy, but still restorable.

Wonder what ever happened to it?

"NYO"
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 7:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ol' timey Brooklyn......bus just BARELY visible behind streetcar......

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?117784
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

An almost bucolic scene from the Brooklyn of 1949......

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?118031
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
An excellent example of MACK longevity......"Takes a lickin'......and keeps on tickin'!" Very Happy

(Fare 7 cents!)

They sure knew how to BUILD buses, way back when.......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3623

Is that the Miller Highway in the background?
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Catfish 44 wrote:
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
An excellent example of MACK longevity......"Takes a lickin'......and keeps on tickin'!" Very Happy

(Fare 7 cents!)

They sure knew how to BUILD buses, way back when.......

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3623

Is that the Miller Highway in the background?


Catfish 44,

The bus in the URL above, a 1931 Mack Model 6-BT-3S numbered between 602 and 605 and operating in its fourth life on the City's M-3 49th./50th. Street Crosstown line, is standing at its western terminus at 42nd. Street and 12th. Avenue at the Weekawken Ferry Terminal.

So the structure in the background would be the now demolished Miller Highway most often referred to though as the West Side Highway.

The history of this bus is very interesting; it was purchased originally as one of fifty in 1931 by the Brooklyn Bus Corporation - then it was traded back to Mack in 1939 and wound up with the Parking Area Service, Inc. as a parking lot shuttle at the 39/40 New York World's Fair - then in 1941 it was purchased by the Comprehensive Omnibus Corporation of Manhattan for its crosstown routes - in 1947, Comprehensive filed for bankruptcy and its lines along with many of its aged Mack buses were purchased by the city.

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Mr. 'L'
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Were they manual transmission?
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 2:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Catfish 44 wrote:
Were they manual transmission?



Catfish 44,

The fifty Mack BT's that Brooklyn Bus bought in 1931 had mechanical transmissions.

However, in the balance of production of the model which counted only another thirty-eight units, there were some gas/electrics.

When my Alma Mater, Green Bus Lines (NY), purchased the Q-10 Lefferts Boulevard route in Queens in 1936 from Travelers Bus Lines, they inherited two Mack BT's with one being Gas/Electric but quickly converted it to a conventional gas/mechanical drive train.

The 44 passenger 33 foot long Mack BT was the largest transit bus of the era and even featured hydraulic steering and larger front tires to compensate for the heavy weight of the engine sitting beside the driver.

Just to give you an idea of how massive these buses were, take a look below at one of a handful that went to St. Louis Public Service.

Photo scanned from Bus Transportation Magazine.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, New York

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