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Jimbo



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:01 pm    Post subject: Mayflower Coach Reply with quote

Help ! I seem to remember a company located in Westchester (or maybe one county further north) called Mayflower Coach from the early 1960's. I believe they may have run express runs into Manhattan and private charters. Yes ???
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 1:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jimbo,

Try the following URL - it may be the Mayflower that you're looking for;

http://www.usamayflowercoach.com/page6.html

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Mr. 'L'
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Jimbo



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I found the name Mayflower Coach Corp. and Mayflower Transit Lines of Peekskill, NY under GM bus delivery lists in the 1970's. Anyone know of this company ?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 3:24 pm    Post subject: Mayflower Coach Reply with quote

my father worked for Mayflower Coach in the 1980's. They always had a nice fleet of previuosly owned buses, including a Scenicruiser. They also eventually spun off Happy Time Charter. I believe the yard was in Mamaroneck, NY. I have a bunch of old pictures of their buses. Craig Weiss
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

IF my memory is correct, during the summer of 1960 the LIRR was shut down with a four week strike. Mayflower Coach (of Peekskill ?) and Sunrise Coach Lines of Greenport received a temporary operating authority to provide service from Manhattan to the east end of Long Island. They used the Port Authority bus terminal as the NYC terminus. Lots of work for the part-time drivers at Sunrise (my father among them). I remember seeing one of the Mayflower Coach buses one time, I believe it was GMC 4104, can't recall the colors. Sunrise ran whatever was available. Also recall the family name of the Mayflower owner as Schiavone (?).
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