New York Fifth Avenue Coach Company 1885-1960 - Softcover

Oliver J. Ogden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583882499 ISBN 13: 9781583882498

Publisher: Iconografix, 2009

Synopsis

New York City's legendary Fifth Avenue Coach Company was famous for its double-deck buses as well as its role as a leader in public transportation in New York City. It was the first bus company with gasoline powered buses and air-conditioning, and also the last company in the US to use double-deckers, which were also the last double-deck buses built in America. This book covers all the various bus designs used, like early horse-drawn omnibuses and buses brought over from England, early Brills built on French chassis. Buses Fifth Ave Coach built in their own garage on 102nd Street using American-made chassis. Later Yellow Coaches and GMCs.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in 1942 in Queens, NY, during the heyday of the Fifthe Ave. Coach Co., Oliver has always been a bus and trolley fan. He has always had a keen interest in not only buses and trolleys, but commercial vehicles in general. He owns a 1969 DIVCO milk truck and a 1988 Cadillac Hearse. He is presently a member of the Board of Directors for teh Museum of Bus Transportation in Hershey, PA, and the curator of their museum. Also a member of the Baltimore Streetcar Museum, Rockhill Trolley Museum, and the Motor Bus Society. In 2008, he was nominated for the prestigous Jefferson Award in the Susquehana Valley which honors outstanding volunteers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Iconografix
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1583882499
• ISBN 13: 9781583882498
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112