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The City retired the last Mack C-49s and the GM TDH 5106s in 1971.

#1452 is a GM TDH-4507, part of the fleet numbers 1300-1499, serial numbers 351-550 of 1947. This was the second order of 4507s made by Surface Transportation.

Fifth Avenue Coach offers three non operational Queen Marys on sale

Note the date for tendering of the bids

This is a Flxible issued flyer

Here is another view

An interesting New Look, #3000 of the NYPD

Two ex-Surface Transit "New Looks" in service for MaBSTOA

3154 is on route 2, Concourse in the Bronx

Here is a view of a line up of GM buses ready for delivery led by a Fifth Avenue Coach TDH-4506, number 2205 still in the gray and white scheme as required by the ODT. Other models and operators follo ...

These two photos were taken in January - February 1962. Note the buses still have the Fifth Avenue Coach colors, lettering and slogan.

a) a GM TDH-5106
b) a GM TDH-5104 and a GM TDH-4506

These are Fifth Avenue Coach "New Looks" (I hate the term "fishbowl")
shortly before the city take over

Look twice and you will see two TDH-4509s of New York City Omnibus in traffic.

Fifth Avenue Coach thought very highly of their GM "New Look" buses, they even used them on the cover of their 1959 Annual Report.

The artists rendition I assume is because the buses had ...

W.B. Fishbowl wrote...

"After the 1962 strike against Fifth Avenue Coach Lines and Surface Transit, and the takeover of all their routes by MaBSTOA, Routes 1 and 19 disappeared from the itiner ...

W.B. Fishbowl wrote...

"It looks from that, that Routes 21 (Houston Street and Avenue C Crosstown) and 22 (Pitt and Ridge Streets) didn't come under NYCO purview until about 1946 or '47. I tak ...

After consulting the May 1972 issue of Motor Coach Age, MaBSTOA The First 10 Years by Bernard Linder I have the following information that I hope it answer your question(s)

There were two route 2.. ...