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Mack Buses... Something to Ponder

 
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2022 10:47 am    Post subject: Mack Buses... Something to Ponder Reply with quote

Something to ponder...

The last Mack bus acquired by Fifth Avenue Coach was a model C-49-DT serial number 1017 and numbered 800 in 1956. It arrived in the ugly yellow/cream and green with a dark thin green belt labeled for Fifth Avenue Coach Lines and with the rooftop script, "Go the Motor Coach Way"

Do doubt this bus was assigned as customary with odd buses, albeit for a short time, to the Northern Blvd. depot for service on the 15 Jackson Heights and 16 Elmhurst Crosstown routes.

It probably joined the Mack C-50s already there. These Macks were transferred to Surface Transit in 1958.

The last brand new Macks that Surface acquired were 10 model C-49-DT serial numbers 2162-2171 and numbered 3000-3009 (IMHO these were the best looking Macks ever - due to their color scheme!) in November 1958.

The last new Macks the NYCTA bought were the 317 model C-49-DT delivered between July and December 1956. They were serial numbers
1381-1698 and numbered 6000-6317.

The last brand new Macks in the New York Metropolitan Area were the five model C-49-DT, serial numbers 2244-2248 and numbered 161-165 purchased by Yonkers Railroad Co. (in Westchester County) and the five model C-49-DT, serial numbers 2334-2338 and numbered 620-624 and acquired by Bee Line (in Nassau County).

Keep in mind that these 10 buses all had the Mack "new look" front end that was developed by Niagara Frontier Transit and offered by Mack as an option ($) and introduced in December 1958.

(This "new look" could also be had with standard passenger windows and standee windows OR with taller passenger windows and no standee windows)

The question to ponder is...

If Fifth Avenue Coach; Surface Transit; and the NYCTA had waited a few months or a couple of years as in the case of the TA... Would they have spend the extra cash for the Mack "New Look" front end??
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2022 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is number 800 in the Bronx now with new name, Surface Transit and with the "Ride the Surface way" rooftop script.

And in picture two... ponder the following... that is a Mack facing 2430!... what Mack is that? It has the the color scheme like 800 but with a "wing" scheme around the standee windows that 800 did not/never had!



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