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Mr. Linsky BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 5071 Location: BRENTWOOD, CA. - WOODMERE, N.Y.
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Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 2:48 am Post subject: 'GENERAL MOTORS OVERSEAS OPERATIONS (GMOO)' |
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General Motors Truck and Coach had any number of ways of shipping buses to customers both in the U.S. and abroad.
For instance; rule of thumb dictated that equipment to be delivered to clients within 600 miles of the Pontiac Michigan plant were usually driven unless other means were specified by the buyer.
Certainly, anything west of the Rocky Mountains most often traveled by enclosed box cars for obvious reasons.
All buses allocated to the Hawaiian Islands reached Los Angeles by box car and were then loaded to ships for the seagoing portion of the voyage.
In the interesting photo below, we see twenty-five 1946 Model TDH 4008's leaving the factory already mounted on rail flat bed cars destined for the east coast and loading onto ships for their journey to Rio de Janeiro Brazil as arranged by the manufacturer's Overseas Operations Division.
BTW; these buses had an unusual arrangement of numbering only using even digits between 2 and 50.
Photo borrowed for educational purposes only.
Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, New York
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