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"RAG TAG" WESTERN FLYERS
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:04 pm    Post subject: "RAG TAG" WESTERN FLYERS Reply with quote
Cleary, this road-weary early 1950's WESTERN FLYER has seen better days; still its handsome lines remain quite evident.

Note that some "customizing" has been done in the interior....at first glance, I though interior had been taken over by moss! Shocked

Still an impressive, historic coach!

Front view.....

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/bc_trucks/2009/09-18/20090918_dsc_1033.jpg
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rear view of same bus.....

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/bc_trucks/2009/09-18/20090918_dsc_1034.jpg
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Interior......

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/bc_trucks/2009/09-18/20090918_dsc_1035.jpg
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here's another war-weary (but still commanding) veteran WESTERN FLYER; this one is a 1954 model......

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/bc_trucks/2009/09-18/20090918_dsc_1053.jpg
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Same coach, but from a different angle.....

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/bc_trucks/2009/09-18/20090918_dsc_1054.jpg
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Driver's area of the same bus....

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/bc_trucks/2009/09-18/20090918_dsc_1056.jpg
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Still a TOUGH-looking coach, retaining that distinctive air of dignity......

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/bc_trucks/2009/09-18/20090918_dsc_1066.jpg
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Those are rugged-looking beasts....sort of a cross between a Brill and a Silversides....
Too bad the interior was spoiled with that ugly shag carpeting....
And that is one serious-looking steering wheel.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
traildriver....

Agreed!

A RUGGED-looking beast indeed, with far more "heft" to its appearance than the lookalike boxes of today! Very Happy

I also, like yourself, took an instant dislike to that green shag inside.....as I said earlier, I had thought that the interior had been ravaged by MOSS! Confused

Here's a rear view of the same coach.....the rounded rear windows were indeed de riguer in coach design, during that era....I sure miss buses like this!

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/bc_trucks/2009/09-18/20090918_dsc_1065.jpg
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Driver's compartment of same coach.....

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/bc_trucks/2009/09-18/20090918_dsc_1061.jpg

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/bc_trucks/2009/09-18/20090918_dsc_1062.jpg
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
....and....the grizzled "guts" that kept that once-proud beast hummin' along the highways.....

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/bc_trucks/2009/09-18/20090918_dsc_1060.jpg
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Another rear view of this ancient beast.....

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/bc_trucks/2009/09-18/20090918_dsc_1064.jpg
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Time-ravaged WF builder's plate......

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/bc_trucks/2009/09-18/20090918_dsc_1067.jpg
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It certainly looks to me like Western Flyer took some design cues from California's Crown Coach school buses of the era.

Nice shots.

Thanks for sharing.

Photo by 'me'!

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Mr. 'L'



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Close-up of driver's area......clearly harking back to another era, long since past......

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/bc_trucks/2009/09-18/20090918_dsc_1058.jpg
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