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[MaBSTOA 15]

This is Philadelphia Transportation Company #500 an ex-Fifth Avenue Coach number 2025 a Yellow Coach model 7354 and acquired from FACCo in 1940

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any further details?

HAD NO IDEA of this purchase!!!!

Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

"NYO"

['YELLOW COACH"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Further..........

Until the 1940s, "The Monumental City" (Baltimore) also operated double-deckers.......

"NYO"

["BTC"]

[MaBSTOA 15]

What makes this purchase interesting and somewhat mysterious is the fact that Fifth Avenue Coach number 2025 was serial number 1 the first in the model 735 model series.

Fifth Avenue Coach acquired number 2025 in 1936 and sold it in 1941. The bus was merely 5 years old still a baby.

Wondering why Fifth Avenue Coach sold it. Sure they could use it or even need it.

On the other side of the Hudson River Coast Cities Coaches acquire 13 Yellow Coach double decker model Z A 199. A small operators who actually purchase double deck buses new from the builder. This was in 1924.

In 1946 Coast Cities acquired 19 Yellow Coach model 720 double deck buses from Chicago Motor Coach. They ran for four summer seasons 1946-1949. The sightseeing travel had decline so low that the double deck buses were no longer financially practical.

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

MaBSTOA 15:

VERY interesting, to be sure; roo bad this wasn't mentioned in the FACCo book by Mr. Odgen. (you learn something new here every day, indeed!)

I recall also, quite awhile back, when you informed me that PSNJ also once operated double-deckers; in all my years of researching PSNJ, I had never come across anything related to double-deck operation, so this really was BIG news from my standpoint!

Then, too, were those hulking, lumbering six-wheelers operated by SURFACE................

"NYO"

["YELLOW"]